A bible verse to live by...

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"
Jeremiah 29:11

Monday, April 6, 2015

House Drama Unveiled

Well there has not been a lot of talk about the supposed house contract that we signed way back when in December.  It is time to unveil what has been going on in the chaos of the Prebish house that was then it wasn't.  In early December, I think, Jacob had been sick all week and was not sleeping well and Aaron busted his chin ending up in an ER trip to get it glued.  Mommy was tired from sleeping in a recliner, being up and down all night or not sleeping at all.  Jon had Friday off and decided to do some "research".  When Jon "does research" there is a secret motive, this time I was too tired to ask questions or even care what secret plot he was working up.  It was Friday afternoon about 3:00 that I got a text from Jon saying "we may need to go look at some houses this weekend".  We had been talking about moving within the next two years and what we wanted to do.  Several times he would say things that indicated he wanted to move things up but then we ended up right back at the 2 year mark.  I told him do not ask me to look or talk about particular houses until you are ready to get the ball rolling because I am not a very patient person.  So that day when he sent the text I believe my response was along the lines of, "We NEED to go like it can't wait until Christmas? Because, really we have enough on our plate right now to rush out and look at a house for 2 years from now."  Well come to find out he had scouted out a good lot, with a good floor plan with a really good price.  Needless to say we drove around for some time talking, looking at the lot, and floor plan.  The end result of that was the next day we went in to sign a contract to begin building this house.  It was exciting to look at and pick out things for our future house.  They let us know they would not start building until the end of Jan or beginning of Feb, so we had some time.  Fast forward to Jan, we decided to go ahead and get all of the design center stuff out of the way so we were good to go and they could start the house as soon as they were ready.  We spent two Saturdays previewing and finalizing the details but finally sorted it all out.  So, again all we had to do was wait a few weeks and hopefully they would begin.  The neighborhood we contracted in was a brand new neighborhood and things had started to get busy, so we were hopeful we were soon going to see some progress.  Then came the week that I was SURE they were going to begin construction.  I drove by one day on my way home from work and took pictures of all of the progress in the neighborhood and sent it along to Jon.  Little did I know at that very time he was having a totally different conversation about our house with the builder.  I got home that night and Jon had the laptop at the dinner table, I hate technology at the table and ripped into him about.  Well as soon as we prayed for dinner he explained why it was there.  Apparently as I was stalking "our new neighborhood" he was talking to the builder and they were explaining to him that they signed a contract with us for a lot that they did not own, therefore they could not begin construction.  As he was telling me this I was thinking, and this is when he is going to say...just kidding.  But, it never came.  After a few minutes as it sunk in I realized this was not a joke it was real, at the moment I realized that it took everything I had not to bust out in tears.  I had waiting for several months with so much excitement...and remember I told you I AM NOT PATIENT.  Why God, why are you doing this?!?!?!  I asked myself that question so many times over the next 2 months.  One drama statement followed another with lots of stress and anxiety about what was supposed to be an exciting time.  The end result turned out to be we could wait and they "might" begin construction in Nov '15 but would have it completed within two years of contracting or we could withdraw.  This was a hard decision for so many reasons.  First, in about Jan we came across the knowledge that our lot was in fact under priced by about $20,000 as Jon had suspected.  So, that is hard to walk away when you KNOW you are locked into a steal of a deal.  And two we were having a hard time finding something we liked better.  We were not in a hurry so our initial thought was, we will wait this out.

Fast forward a few months....We were waiting for one of the other builders in the neighborhood to release all of their floor plans because they had the one other lot we might have been interested in.  Well a week or so ago that finally happened.  Once they released them we spent some time reviewing them and decided that we were going to make the jump to the other builder, lot, and house.  At this point we were hopeful we would get all of our money back but also knew that was not going to keep us from changing.

So the final result is, we signed a new contract for a much better lot and house.  I am so excited to see this start to develop and finish the end of October 2015.  I am also happy to report we got a contract cancellation noting we will get a full refund from the original builder.

So, tonight Jon informed me the Realtor is coming for a initial look at our house in about 3-4 weeks.  Oh my, that kind of made my heart skip a beat.  So if you see me in the next few weeks and I look a little frazzled, just remind me it will be ok......