House Hunting....

Sucks!

I thought this would be fun. I thought I could go and look at houses on the weekends in the areas of town that I wanted to look at and close the end of December or mid-January so that I could be moved before the end of January and out of the apartment. I was aparently dreaming.

We met with the real estate agent (REA) last night and got bad news after bad news. When we told him our price range and that we wanted at least 2 bathroom and more than 2 bedrooms and the radius that we wanted to look at, it narrowed where we will live down to Norcross or Duluth. When he started looking at how long homes in that area stay on the market most of them are only on the market 10 days or less. This means that any home that I look at now will not be available in December or January.

He then started explaining the problems with closing around that time of year and how people don't want to move. Now it looks like we won't be making an offer on a home until January or later which puts the closing in February or March which mean an extra 2 or 3 months in that aweful apartment. It also puts off looking at houses in person till November or later but he suggested waiting until January when lots of houses go on the market.

Everything he said makes sense but I hate waiting. Once I decide to do something, I like to get right to it.

Mood: Frustrated