Weekend Update

Where to start?? Well, we've had a tumultuous weekend. Last Thursday, Jeff noticed something interesting on a document related to our "new house". It was a lawsuit filed by the current owner, suing the previous owner for nondisclosure of flooding problems... for the entire cost of the home! Thanks to some sleuthing work by my dear friend Elise, we recovered a document in the lawsuit that had the words "if I had known how bad the flooding was, I never would have purchased the house". Yikes! We got the hell out of there. And because Mr. Sue-happy didn't disclose anything to US, he's giving us our money back for the inspections we paid for.

Then we put an offer on another lovely house. The same day someone else put a "considerably better" offer on it. Apparently it's 2005 and no one told me because we offered full price. Huh.

So yesterday we put an offer on a third house. I guess the third time is the charm! (I sure hope so anyway!!) It's just gorgeous. It feels like a lodge with big open windows and tons of trees. There is even a screened-in porch off of the master bedroom. It needs to be updated (shag carpet in the bathroom! ahh!) and painted, but it's all small stuff. And for you geologists, it has gorgeous labradorite-rich granite everywhere! Mmmmm....