No Break

Within hours of hearing that we might be able to move in early, we found out the bank had put the house on the auction block for August. We are now banned from moving in. I can't figure out if the owner is still the owner if they are auctioning it out from under her.

I spent the day hunting for rentals. I dropped an application off at two places. One place pretty much wanted our life history with passports and bank account numbers. It was really invasive. The other place was lovely. They just wanted a list of friends and co workers and contacts. Which to me is more important. Checking out a person's character references is as important as what is in the bank. Heads up you may be getting phone calls. Warning a bad reference will lead to us moving in with you teen age boys and cats and dog and husband, and all our necessities.

We have not given up on the big house. I will be at the auction with paddle if it really goes to auction, unless we find something else. We are pulling our offer though as we don't want that to be what the bank thinks as the floor minimum bid. Maybe we can get it even cheaper.

I am wondering if the home owner did what we did and threw out a low number to entice interest in hopes of getting anything. I realized right away there was no interest when we had our low ball sale price on our house for a month and still no lookers. I am so grateful not to be going down that road. We have some wonderful renters and our credit is not going to be thrashed.

At the club Tom is hearing about a back log of people sitting on the sidelines hoping for a turn around in the housing market. Eventually they wont be able to wait forever, those houses will be available. Or perhaps a private sale can be arranged as they hear that we are shopping.

I am antsy now to hear if one of the rentals will accept us as tenants. We should know tomorrow on one. It is not big or special but it will do in a pinch and that is what we are in now, a pinch. Movers are still scheduled for June 27. Looks like we are going to make our deadlines. I am good!!

Last night I went up to the club and hung out with old friends. Tom stayed in town with me since I was there for once. I was the designated driver, Shirley Temples all night. I find I can't sleep if I do diet Coke. I remembered my ear plugs which was good because Tom's snoring is more evident when I haven't been sleeping in the same bed with him every night. Other than his rolling over and stealing all the blankets occasionally, I loved sleeping in the same bed again with Tom, but definitely needed the ear plugs. This living out of a friend's house during the week is for the birds. Besides these are really good friends and we want to keep them.

Positive vibes, baby. Positive vibes.