My boyfriend and I had been searching for the perfect house for ourselves and his three kids for six months with what seemed like no luck. At the beginning of June, we came across “The One,” a perfect, charming ranch-style house in the country that we both loved! We put our first offer in and waited and waited and waited with anticipation. The sellers waited until the last possible minute to write back, then would be unavailable for showings for weeks at a time. Did they even want to sell? We wrote back one more time and what was going to be our final time, when we got some bad news. The seller injured her back and would be in the hospital for some time, and they decided to take the house off the market.

Crushed, we continued our search, but there was just nothing out there. Three weeks passed by, and the sellers of the house we wanted contacted us. They had reconsidered!! We went through the house again and worked out an offer that was conditional on the septic system being replaced and a test of the well, and they accepted!!

Overjoyed, we started dreaming up how our house would be and having family BBQs, etc. On the way back to the office with an offer in hand and ready to fax, the seller’s real estate agent gets a call. The husband does not want the offer to go through until the morning, and he is stalling for some reason.

So it is 2:30 a.m., and I am up wondering why?! This is our house; we can picture ourselves here. We will get it. I will be writing back soon to let you know that our dream house is ours!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! And so it was!