We are six weeks before Christmas. I've proceeded full steam ahead with painting and furnishing the new house.
And today our buyers are backing out of the contract on our old house.
Fifteen thousand hoops we've jumped for them. Six weeks we've counted on them and waited for them. And they dump us, just before closing.
Can I have their phone number so I can talk to them and ask them what they are thinking having you jump around to make them happy and then say no I don't think so. So sorry to here about this after all you have done to satisfy them. I can't believe they can just back out with no recourse. What can I do?
Posted by: Mar | 06 November 2007 at 01:40 PM
NO!!!
Oh Molly, I am so terribly sorry. There are no words.
Posted by: Hilary | 06 November 2007 at 02:01 PM
I am so sorry. What else is there to say?
Posted by: debi | 06 November 2007 at 02:05 PM
That sucks. My shoulder is available if you feel like doing some crying.
Posted by: Erica | 06 November 2007 at 02:26 PM
I have totally just been reading and not commenting until now.
Those people. They totally BLOW.
Posted by: Stephanie | 06 November 2007 at 02:38 PM
Wow that is the worst news! What F**kers!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Anne | 06 November 2007 at 02:54 PM
Unbelievable. I'm so sorry.
Did they give a reason?
Posted by: Laylabean | 06 November 2007 at 03:17 PM
Wow. That is the worst freaking news. Ya'll have worked so hard and but so much into all this for them to do this to ya'll now.
They really do suck.
Posted by: takin chances | 06 November 2007 at 03:20 PM
Nooo! We are supposed to close on our old house this Saturday. We haven't had near as many hoops, since our house is about 100 years newer than yours, but it has been on the market since the beginning of summer! Our realtor has sucked big time, but we finally got a buyer, and all is moving smoothly. I am sending buyer vibes your way...
Posted by: Kristin | 06 November 2007 at 03:32 PM
holy crap. i'm so terribly heartbroken for you!
drink something strong.
Posted by: Alissa | 06 November 2007 at 03:40 PM
Man...that really stinks! I am so sorry!!
Posted by: Wendy | 06 November 2007 at 03:44 PM
What in the hell?
Drink something strong and neat.
Who does this crap? I'm so so sorry.
Posted by: Liz | 06 November 2007 at 03:45 PM
Those f*cking sh*thead bastards.
Posted by: Audrey | 06 November 2007 at 03:46 PM
What's wrong with people like this! There sure should be some protections for the seller too.
Maybe ... just maybe God will make the next offer so worth all this crap you've been through?
In the mean time, you can choke the shit out of them!
Posted by: Angela | 06 November 2007 at 04:09 PM
Oh, those hateful, evil people. I can only assume that with all their financial troubles they couldn't come through with the financing. That just sucks.
I am so, so sorry.
Posted by: Sadie | 06 November 2007 at 04:16 PM
Wow, no words could say how sorry I am for you and your family. Could you become landlords for a year to start paying the mortgage? and try to sell in one year when hopefully the market would be better?
It won't help, but I'd totally buy you a drink, or two, maybe three.
keep our head up!
Posted by: crookedeyebrow | 06 November 2007 at 04:18 PM
God! I am sorry. Something better is probably in store. Sorry.
Posted by: glamgranola | 06 November 2007 at 04:19 PM
I don't really know what to say. I am so so so sorry. You guys do not deserve this.
Posted by: Rachel | 06 November 2007 at 04:43 PM
That Sucks with a capital "S"
Posted by: Ashley & Family | 06 November 2007 at 05:36 PM
Oh shit.
Posted by: Isabel | 06 November 2007 at 05:54 PM
That.blows. So sorry dude. I know how you feel and it sucks so bad.
Posted by: Lizarita | 06 November 2007 at 06:33 PM
I'm so sorry. You were so amazingly gracious to them, and I can't believe that they put your family through so much to just bail out. Hope you get a buyer soon-
Posted by: Amanda | 06 November 2007 at 06:37 PM
Don't these people realize who they are dealing with and that you guys SOOOOOOOO don't deserve all this???
I am so sorry.
Although, I have to say I'm not entirely surprised, with all they did/put you through up til this last blow. What can I say, I'm not an optimist...
Posted by: Jenny | 06 November 2007 at 07:54 PM
NNNNNOOOOOO! Jerks. What happened?
Posted by: Jackie | 06 November 2007 at 08:27 PM
Isn't there anything you can do? Doesn't the word contract mean anything?
Posted by: ktjrdn | 06 November 2007 at 08:39 PM
I cannot believe these people. Seriously.
Call me when you stop screaming.
Posted by: Frema | 06 November 2007 at 09:19 PM
Oh you guys....I'm so, so terribly sorry.
I cannot believe that this is happening, just cannot believe it.
Posted by: SJ | 06 November 2007 at 09:23 PM
Others have censored their language...I'm not gonna do that.
Fuck those people. Fuck 'em and may the house they do move into burn to the ground with their miserable two-bit asses in it.
Better still, let them move into some God-forsaken shithole in the bad part of East Fucknuts that wasn't slaved over and cared for by some of the best people I have been honored to have known.
Let them live with bursting pipes, rat shit, a meth lab next door, radon and, yep, a motherfucking poltergeist. Home sweet fucking home, dickweed.
As your unofficial medical advisor, I prescribe:
1. Alcohol in quantity.
2. An album to frame your mood (Lightnin' Hopkins, Leonard Cohen, or if you are more angry than melancholy, the Sex Pistols) 3. A notepad to take down a letter that you will send to these people through their agent after the influence of 1 and 2.
I'm feelin' for you.
Posted by: Alexander Pavlovich Romanov, Autocrat of All the Russias | 06 November 2007 at 11:42 PM
Oh. Freakin'. No.
SO SORRY!!!
Posted by: BetteJo | 06 November 2007 at 11:50 PM
Tell me these people at least had to put something into escrow that you'll be getting. It could buy a lot of Boone's Farm.
Posted by: Dana | 07 November 2007 at 08:38 AM
Oh.My.God. Sooooo sorry.
Posted by: Stacey | 07 November 2007 at 02:13 PM