Still Waiting...

Waiting to see if we have "won" the house is kind of like we have bought a lotto ticket for the big one and just when the winning numbers start to appear on the TV screen, the power cuts out.  And no amount of banging on the set will make the numbers appear.  So, we wait.

There was another open home at the house today, so Philip, Esther and Kevin (my sister and brother-in-law) and Kevin's mum went to check out the house again.  Really, we were there to check out the competition.  We didn't hide in the bushes or anything, but it did felt a bit like a covert operation.  We were after information.  How many people are interested?  Was it over run with people looking to outbid us?  Any news on what is going to happen next? 

We did learn from innocently bending an ear towards the real estate agent talking to another couple that there is an offer on the house and the vendors were keen to work with the buyers.   Hmm, is that us?  Is there another offer out there, other than ours and the one that the vendor has already accepted?  Hard to tell at this stage.  Apparently, the agent is collecting offers by 4:00pm on Monday (tomorrow for us) so people needed to get there offers in ASAP.   Optimistically, I am hoping that means that we will know if we are the lucky winners of a mortgage by this time tomorrow.  What it could also mean is that the vendor doesn't like any of our offers and could go back to putting the house up for auction on the 27th.  Or, he could like our offer well enough to go back to the person he first agreed to and ask her to turn her offer into a cash offer in two days.  Or, someone could out bid us.  Or, or, or.  There are lots of endings to this story and we just have to be patient.  Erg.  Waiting isn't a strong suit.

The good news is that Philip and I did really like the house again when we went back.  That's a good sign when you sign up to pay for something over the next thirty years, right?  So, in the meantime we wait.  An secretly start planning what type of furniture will go perfectly in the living room...just in case...