Well we agreed on a bid and I put my earnest money down. $78,900. Not bad, be around $660/month. I am still secondary on the list. Some other guy put his earnest money down, and went and bought another place, and never signed off on this one. They are currently hunting the guy down to sign off, then I will be primary bidder, and the house will be mine.( as long as the loan goes through.) which I see no foreseeable problems. This could be the best thing to happen to me since marriage and children. Its on the better side of town, and is perfect condition. I drop the loan app off at the loan officer's place today.
Man I hope this goes through. This could mean that the termination of parental rights with my ex wife and the move to my new home will all be around the same time. The courts will bring us all in (other then my daughter) to take care of it all at once. First they will terminate the parental rights, then they will state that Amanda is now adopting my daughter and it will all be finalized and done with. We will be moving to our OWN home, and starting a NEW life. My daughter will even be given and entire floor (two rooms) to herself. Her bedroom and a play room. Everything seems to be just falling into place. This almost has the feel that this all was meant to happen.
I mean look at the facts. Three months ago, a man comes in, and put his bid and earnest money on a house, the renegs and this holds the house for us. All there paperwork is falling in together, I was missing my wife's 401k info, and when I tried to get it online I couldn't. Only to come home that same day and the quarterly report was in my mail. The loan officer asks for my past 5 check stubs (which we destroy weekly) and it turns out that we can get wage and earning forms from our places of work to accomplish the same thing. The couple that owned the house was not going to change the price from $79,900, yet when they found out it was my family, they dropped it $1000 anyways. I was worried about affording the house during the slump of the winter (am a staffing manager, and my bonus is determined on how many people we have working) and we get a job order in for 100 people. We needed about $150 dollars to finish the payment for the inspector and what have you, and we had a garage sale that pulled in $159 this past weekend.
I firmly believe the good Lord is looking out for us. There is just no other explanation. My wife and I cannot have children (her tubes have collapsed, and it would cost $15,000 to fix it and there is not even a 80% chance that it would work either.) so instead, I have a daughter and my ex-wife signs off on her rights, making my wife her official mother. And all this with the home. He wants us to have a fresh healthy start. This is the American dream. a new home, a new life, and new hope for the future.
As more comes in, I will keep you updated.
