Fear of the unknown

Ryan and I put our house up for sale on a Tuesday evening and by Friday evening we had accepted a full price offer!!! We definitely did not expect to sell our house in 3 days. And the buyers want to close by March 31st. Which is all dandy except we haven't found a house yet! I have to move out in less than 2 months with no where to go! My father in law offered to let us stay with him and his wife. They have a nice finished basement and the kids and Ryan and I would all have our own rooms so that would be nice. My Mom offered to move out of her house and in with a friend and let us stay there and we could always stay in one of the apartments we own. Lots of choices and none are really ideal.

We decided to look into building. We could pick our neighborhood and the house and all the features which is very appealing to me. (Ryan would prefer to buy a short sale or foreclosure!). We were dealing with Ryan homes. Which is not the best quality but you get a lot of house for the money. We were stupid and filled out their pre qualifying paperwork and royally screwed ourselves! Once they found out we didn't have any bills they REFUSED to go down on the price at all. They actually told Ryan that we could afford to pay for it but we just didn't want to. No kidding the thought of a 1300/month mortgage is NOT what we want! And who the hell are they to tell us what we can afford?! So we said enough of that and are back to looking at existing.

When we started looking we found a great house in Perinton that was perfect but we found out that Ryan can't have his trailer there so that is a huge bummer. Now our primary area is Canandaigua and Farmington but there is NOTHING out there! And we are not just going to buy a house because we have to. I would rather live in an apartment till we find what we are looking for but it is so frustrating! The other area we are considering is Macedon that is pal-mac school system because there taxes aren't too bad (the part of Macedon in the Gananda school system has taxes that are outrageous!).

Ryan and I also talked about the private school thing again. And after 4 years of looking at schools and finally finding one we have decided to send them to school in which ever district we buy in. We don't want to have to stress about paying for school and not be able to take the kids on vacations and buy things.

So fingers crossed that we find a house soon!!!!!!!!!!!