The drama of property #3 continues. We had bid on it twice and walked away because they didn’t seem like they were going to work with us. Then they called us a week later, to check our status. Encouraged, we made another bid, the bank countered, and then we made our final bid.
It looked like we had a chance, they were asking questions to close up the offer and we were very clear that this was our last offer before we walked away. Then the selling agent contacted us and asked for our “best and final offer” because there was another bid on the property. “What!? The property has never been lived in (for 2 years)…..we were the only bidders because it was listed too high for the market…..and a few hours before we get our answer, somebody shows up to bid?……How convenient!” The agent/owner assured us that she would award the house to the highest bidder. Suspicious that she was trying to drive up the bids, our final bid stayed the same as our last “final bid”. (We were not kidding when we told her that was our last offer.) We wondered and speculated all weekend. At least if we lost the house, we wouldn’t have to watch it go into foreclosure and then sell for less than we offered, in 6 months.
We got the call last night. Our offer was rejected…….the verbiage used was as if WE were the only bidders, there was no talk of the other party. Our agent checked into it……….. the house is NOT under contract. That means that the agent was trying to drive up our bid as we suspected. There was NO 2nd party making an offer, she lied to try to get more money, even though we had told her that was our best offer. She could have left us alone and we wouldn’t have been drawn into the last 2 weeks of bidding and stressing over a property she had no intention of selling to us. She could have rejected us on Monday when we told her it was our final offer. But…..she lied and strung us along.
The fact that we lost the house is annoying, but I am more upset that she lied and drug our family through an emotional roller coaster for the last 2 weeks. There’s also the fact that we have lost time messing with this property……. for nothing, we are fast approaching our move out deadline.
Hubby and I are BEYOND sick, of looking for houses. We are both trying so hard to be open to anything and listen for God’s will in all of this. Unfortunately, we aren’t getting anything real clear. We are running out of time and we are back at square one. Do we rent, do we buy, do we sell everything and move into the RV? We are open to anything here, we just want to be in God’s will. We keep going through the motions of looking at properties, waiting for God to show us “the one”. We’ve picked out 2 RV’s to trade ours in on, and found storage. We’ve looked at boats and rental properties. We’ve prayed about this move for a year, prayed for God to open and close doors clearly and provide clarity for 6 months, and prayed for Hubby to have a clear leading on where God would have us. So far we’ve got nothing solid. We thought we were to continue our current ministry as well as begin to learn farming and gardening. Very few of our current prospects have room for a garden, let alone anything else. We are getting very discouraged. We have never sought God’s will harder, or felt further from it.
We go to look at another farm house (that we ruled out for various reasons early on) today. Then we start the list of cookie-cutter subdivision houses that have restrictions against our RV, the farm animals, and even the money-saving clothes line. The RV is starting to look really good at this point.
