Friday, January 19, 2007

Frustration

Jeremy and I are a little frustrated right now. We found out a couple of days ago that a lady was willing to rent our house out for 4-6 months while her new house is still being finished. She had agreed to allow us to keep the house on the market and show it and if anyone made an acceptable offer she would gladly move out. This seemed like the answer to our prayers, we finally felt like things were coming together. She and Jeremy spoke on the phone and everything seemed great. We discussed drawing up a rental contract and she was fine with that. So, Jeremy found our old one from our Miamitown days and cut and pasted a lot of stuff from that. The whole thing sounded fine to me. Well, tonight during dinner we get a call from our realtor. Apparently, the lady had a problem with the contract and was withdrawing the offer completely! There were things in the contract that made her uncomfortable, things that to us seemed reasonable. Things like please turn on the fan while you are in the shower, do not burn candles when you are not home, and keep the grass cut w/the provided mower. These were things taken completely from the contract that we rented from except for the grass thing (with a mower that we were gladly letting her use). The whole thing stressed her out so much that she was "hysterical" over it and had to consult her mother and sister as to whether she should go through with it or not. They obviously advised her not to. So, we are pretty frustrated. The good news is that we have a showing tomorrow and maybe all this means that the people tomorrow are going to buy the house. I hope so, but please pray for us and that this whole thing can just be over and done with.

2 comments:

This is how I see it. said...

by selling things on the black market i have been making a lot of money lately. i would buy your house if i didn't have my eye on a yacht. the lady sounds a little crazy and from the way you explained things it sounded like you were only asking for common sense things...who knows people are weird. i do hope you sell your house so i'll pray about the showing, yo!

Justin and Bethany said...

You cut and pasted from a lease agreement written by Gary Angel?!? Does that dude even know how to spell?