Monday, December 10, 2007
It'll Huff and It'll Puff
I can't believe I am about to say this, but we may not get this house.
It isn't our fault or because of our negligence in any way shape or form. It just so happens that the sellers are in the midst of human drama. The couple that owned the house are now seperated, but not divorced and to the husband's surprise, the wife's name was never taken off title. He thought it was and so did his lawyer. But somehow, it wasn't and it hasn't.
Now, this could be alleviated easily by the wife woman signing a piece of paper and releasing her name from the title. But the woman won't. For two weeks this woman has kept saying she will do it and then doesn't. We are over a week late in closing the house and the woman doesn't want to sign this paper. I assume she may want to make her ex's life a living hell, but, in turn, she is making our house buying experience a nightmare.
We have asked our lawyer what the next step will be if she won't sign the docs and he has told us that the husband will have to sue his wife for damages - damages because if this next step is going to have to be taken then we are compelled to pull the deal. Obviously, our mortgage and our lives can not be put on hold and even though we want this house we can't get so emotionally involved that we make poor business decisions. Most importantly, we need to make this decision in the next few days because we don't want to have our movers come and move all of our stuff BEFORE we realize that the deal is bust. Which means, today we call our lawyer and give the sellers 24 hours to produce this signed document. If they don't, we pull and then sue to recoup all of our losses.
Suing people is not something I look forward to doing. Leon is sad sad sad that this is even happening. But you never know, we might call today and it might all have figured itself out. I will keep you posted. Unbelievable. Really. Not that I would regret anything, because I have learned so much that I feel like a very different person.
I should also try to enjoy my time on the Sunshine Coast, which is from where I am typing this post.
Hard to try and ignore that your very first house might be ripped out from under you...
It isn't our fault or because of our negligence in any way shape or form. It just so happens that the sellers are in the midst of human drama. The couple that owned the house are now seperated, but not divorced and to the husband's surprise, the wife's name was never taken off title. He thought it was and so did his lawyer. But somehow, it wasn't and it hasn't.
Now, this could be alleviated easily by the wife woman signing a piece of paper and releasing her name from the title. But the woman won't. For two weeks this woman has kept saying she will do it and then doesn't. We are over a week late in closing the house and the woman doesn't want to sign this paper. I assume she may want to make her ex's life a living hell, but, in turn, she is making our house buying experience a nightmare.
We have asked our lawyer what the next step will be if she won't sign the docs and he has told us that the husband will have to sue his wife for damages - damages because if this next step is going to have to be taken then we are compelled to pull the deal. Obviously, our mortgage and our lives can not be put on hold and even though we want this house we can't get so emotionally involved that we make poor business decisions. Most importantly, we need to make this decision in the next few days because we don't want to have our movers come and move all of our stuff BEFORE we realize that the deal is bust. Which means, today we call our lawyer and give the sellers 24 hours to produce this signed document. If they don't, we pull and then sue to recoup all of our losses.
Suing people is not something I look forward to doing. Leon is sad sad sad that this is even happening. But you never know, we might call today and it might all have figured itself out. I will keep you posted. Unbelievable. Really. Not that I would regret anything, because I have learned so much that I feel like a very different person.
I should also try to enjoy my time on the Sunshine Coast, which is from where I am typing this post.
Hard to try and ignore that your very first house might be ripped out from under you...
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