If, if and more if's!

Things keep moving faster with the house I am wanting than they are supposed to!

We saw that it was going up for auction much faster than we had anticipated - it was auctioned off on Sept 2nd.  We knew the week before it happened cause I am a FABULOUS eugoogelizer!  However, Steve and I decided not to try to buy it at the auction.  It would have been a cash deal with no inspection or even a personal walk through.  Given that Steve has not even SEEN the house, and well, we don't just have that kind of cash lying around...that didn't sit very well with us and we decided to pass.  

Apparently Freddie Mac purchased the home and their realtor was there at the end of last week putting a lock box on the door and changing all the locks - doing a walk through, etc. 

My wonderful friend Catherine (who is almost as nosey of a neighbor as I am) cozied up to her and got the 411 on the homes status.  She even got to walk through it with the realtor and was able to tell me what kind of condition it was in. WOOT!  

Needless to say, this house needs some work, but nothing too major - the biggest things are cleaning out the pool which is currently filled with GREEN water and mosquitos, and replacing ALL of the carpet and padding! After looking through a few windows I am convinced that they vacuumed maybe just a few times in the eight years they lived there. EEP!  Not to mention the doggie potty smell that I have been told is present in the home.  (Nothing like new carpet to cure both of those problems though - and I love doing/having concrete stained floors...so we could always do that in some rooms to save a little $$ as well.  

The rest of the stuff is just normal stuff with foreclosure homes, some paint, front door/back door, new master closet door, etc.  and the house would be a home. :D 

Anyone who knows me knows I love a good fixer upper so this would be soooo right up my ally! With my present depression creeping in and rearing its ugly head I would be thrilled to have some pressing projects to get me right with the world again.  

So according to the realtor last week it would be 4-6 weeks before ANYTHING happened with the home in terms of being put out to sell.  Then, last night or early this morning someone posted two little pieces of paper in a window that say "for information on how to buy this home contact...blah blah blah" WOW - correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that 4 days is anywhere near 4-6 weeks!  But okay....this makes me VERY HAPPY!  

I talked to Steve tonight, and we are going to go see the house!  There are still a lot of if's - and he still doesn't think that buying a new home is something he is all gung ho about...but he agreed that IF he likes the floor plan and IF there isn't anything major we discover that we didn't know about and IF the price is right (since it is a fixer upper for sure not to mention, we are NOT the type of family that want's to max out our finances on our home purchase) - IF all of those IF'S work out, then we can buy it! 

WAHOOO!!!  That is music to my ears just to even think about it being a possibility and not just me wishing!  I am still keeping myself reserved because honestly, I don't think the price I want to get it for is a price that they will let it go for.  But maybe, just maybe it will all work out!  So I am back to where I have been all along on this - It is absolutely going to have to be a God thing!  I have really felt all along that this was something that is supposed to be, but sometimes feelings can be wrong...and only God knows if this is the right move for us.  I am just going to keep praying.  Not praying that it will happen, but praying that IF it is His will - THEN it will happen.  That IF that is the case, then we will be led to make all the right moves and do our part.  

Oh, and there is also the part that scares me...they don't take contingency sales - soooo....God would have to play a hand in getting our current home sold too, cause mama don't wanna be paying two mortgages, ya heard?!!!  That part scares me a little, but really, once we remove the clutter of every day life from this home, I think it should be a pretty easy sell.  Plus closings don't happen overnight, so we can get ours on the market while we are in that process and hope that it sells about the same time as we close.  That would be so totally tight (tight as in awesome) if the timing worked out that way.  Pray, pray, pray!  I am all over the praying!  God always answers, just not always in the way we hope for - so time will tell how He wants this one to play out. :D