Changes

Sunday, April 17, 2016

It has been almost three and a half years since I have written on my blog. A lot has happened since then and I thought i would write them out. I survived my hospital stay and have not needed any treatment so far. We decided last year that it was time for some changes in our life, so after much prayer and discussion we put our house up for sale. It was an older house on a large corner lot with a full size in ground pool. The pool seldom got used any more and it was just a lot of work to maintain.  We had a friend who was a real estate broker and she helped us to sell our house and look for a new place. Let the process begin.

I think it was sometime in April, 2015 that we first put the house on the market. Our agent suggested we start looking right away for a house to buy because she said our house will sell quickly. We were planning to move to Crestview to be closer to family and we could also get more house for our money. We started looking right away but didn't want to commit till we knew our house was sold. We got an offer on our house very quickly and we were getting excited and a little panicky because we didn't have a house to move to. We made an offer on one contingent on selling our house but they would not accept the contingency. We started looking at short term rentals as well as other houses to purchase.

We looked at other houses but nothing that we felt was right. In the meantime the sale of our house fell through. There was a problem with the purchasers finances. We were upset and relieved at the same time. We put the house back on the market for a higher price than we originally had it. We very quickly got an offer for the full price. The only catch was that this was going to be a VA mortgage which has more restrictions. In the mean time we found a house very close to where Don and Kathy lived and we made an offer on it. The problem is that it was a short sale, and i can tell you from experience that there is nothing short about a short sale!

Inspections were being done on our house and there were a couple of issues that needed to be taken care of before the VA would give the buyer a loan. thanks to my son in law Don, with much hard work we accomplished the things that needed to be done. There was still one small problem though. We did not have a home to move to! We were still waiting on the short sale as well as looking at other homes. We had a closing date of June 29 and we prayed a lot about what we should do as far as where to go. We found a short term rental but that was going to be expensive. About the time we got a closing date for the sale of our house Brian and Diane offered to let us stay with them. We really didn't want to impose but accepted figuring it would only be for a couple weeks. Let the process continue.