Sometimes You Can’t Fake Happy…
The buyer pulled out of the contract on our house today.
I looked over a few posts today that I’ve put up lately and they all had a sad depressing tone to them. I would really like to give you something else tonight, something happy or maybe even a craft. I should changed the name of my blog to clumsy depressed one, it would be more fitting. Tonight I just can’t give anything else. In my heart I am a writer and I’ve always wrote to deal with my feelings. So when you read this blog, that is what you’re getting… you are getting the real me dealing with things in the way that I know how to deal with them.
I am very upset that the buyer pulled out. I cried when I heard and I waited for my husband to get in the shower so that he wouldn’t see me cry while writing this. People have been telling me that this is just a hiccup and it’s no big deal but I’m stressed and it is a big deal to me right now. It means that once again I have to start keeping my house spotless. I need to put my sewing machine back up and worry more about keeping my house spotless than doing what I want to do.
It’ll mean more stress to keep my kid’s rooms clean, more fussing at them to pick up, pick up, pick up!! And to be truthful… I thought that God has sent these people to buy the house. I had prayed that very morning that they came to see it for God to sell our house that day. Then we got the call for the showing, then the offer… and then the price that we settled on was the amount I had asked God for. And now they backed out because a home inspector went postal on our inspection and scared them to death about our house. I know our house does not have problems, we live here every single day…. for the past eight years. This inspector commented on every. single. thing. humanly possible. He even made a remark in the report because one of our closet lights is just a light bulb, it doesn’t have a globe over it. He also made remarks on two shingles on the roof that have little tiny edges missing and suggested we have the roof seen by a roofing professional. You are the professional Mr. Inspector! and I’m mad at you. I’m mad. I said it.
I’m depressed, I’m mad.. I’m selfish. I’m human. a crying one.
I know that there is a chance that a better deal could come along now. Maybe the next people won’t try to bargain down the price like the last ones, maybe they won’t be scared by an inspector who is trying to get his own TV show on HGTV more so than be truthful to people. There is hope.
But really tonight I just gotta deal with what I’m feeling, which is sad and depressed. Sorry if you wanted happy butterflies…. I think my dog ate them.
Courtney Crawford says
I’m so sorry Bobbie..if it makes you feel better – I do know that we were those people that wanted an inspector to NOT say those things to us as the BUYER. We had an inspector trying to talk us out of buying and WE WANTED it!!! I remember wanting a new inspector to tell us better stuff about it! The house that we’re in now. 🙂
Milehimama@gmail.com says
Oh, it IS a big deal. It’s your whole life- now you have to go back to living in your house for others, not for yourself.
And I know how disappointed- even betrayed- one can feel when they are just SURE that answer to prayer turns out to be something different than what they thought.
I’m so sorry you have to go back to square one. Hang in there, it will get better.
Jpatrickcomm says
Bobbie,
I’m so sorry you are going through this. I will pray for you. It was so good to meet you last night and I look forward to getting to know you better. I can tell that you’re good people…I hate to see you in pain! Hang in there and keep your sense of humor.
Fletcher Family says
So sorry for you. So frustrating! But somehow, you still managed to make me laugh, which is why I love reading your blog! You are funny and you are able to still have humor even when things seem bleak. What a gift from above! 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
pat says
Praying for your family Bobbie that God’s will be done in the sale of your house. I love your blog and look forward to reading it everyday. Keep writing it’s your God given talent, and I adore your kiddos.
The LORD will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.” God is bigger than your situation. His Word says in Isaiah 59:1,