Our American Dream is A Nightmare!!!

Well I haven't updated our blog FOREVER. I always take the camera and plan to do some blogging but then never get around to it. So.. Here is the new news on the house...

We went to California and looked at it in person and had an inspection done. There was 1 page of stuff that needed to be fixed to make it "code" and they inspector said that was pretty good for a house this old. So we had a contractor do a bid on it and it was $40,000 to have everything done. So our agents told us that we would ask for a $5000 credit and they approved that. Then we went to stay for a couple weeks to house sit for Janet and Cary and get things taken care of with the house. While we were there we discovered that the Crazy Cat Lady is our backyard neighbor and she thinks its fun to feed all her cats in other people's yards. Not to mention that she was letting them live in our basement. So we put a board over the stairs and we went back and it was moved. So we screwed it down so she couldn't move it and she KICKED OUT THE SCREENS TO THE VENTS! We couldn't beleive it. I was so upset I just didn't know what else to do except cry. So we told our agent and she was able to have the owners get rid of them. I also called the police and gave them her name and address and told them what was going on so they said they would patrol it.
Next the sellers were getting anxious because our lender was taking too long and hadn't had the appraisal done yet so they told us to get a new lender and we did. Low and behold the new lender wasn't able to do the type of loan we needed because his office didn't do that anymore so we went back to our original lender. She got the appraisal back and it was for $121,000 when we offered $168,000 so it was back to the drawing board to pretty much start negotiations all over. The sellers were a little bugged by the low number which is completely ridiculous considering they bought it 4 months ago for only $87,000. So we are just waiting to hear back if they will take that price for it. We were supposed to close on the tenth and we signed papers June 5th so it is just taking way longer than we had hoped. We are keeping our fingers crossed and trying to stay positive that the deal will work out. We have put it in the lord's hands and are praying that whatever happens we will be ok. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers and hopefully between us all we will witness a miracle!