Monday, October 19, 2009

The Austin Curse?

This morning I had to call Michael, our real estate agent, about scheduling our pre closing walk through of our new home and I wanted to know when the buyers of our current home were going to do their walk through. Michael was like, hey, just got off the phone with Don (the builder AND real estate agent of the home we are buying) and he reported that there may be a couple liens going on the home we want to buy. Okay, let me point out that this is new construction, BUT someone has lived in it for 3 months (they closed on the home July 2, 2009). Don pointed out that he believed these contractors that put the liens on the home were paid up (from the builders point of view). Anyway, the owners of the home paid for the home and purchased the home in July clear of liens at time of closing, so these liens should have been against Don Fuller, the builder not the current homeowners who purchased the home with a clean and clear title. I called Chris and reported what Michael had told me. Something was not adding up here and it did not look good for our Friday move day.

Don Fuller, the owner of Lifestyle Homes (who is also a real estate agent), had not been good about returning phone calls, emails, or showing up to appointments we had scheduled about building a home with him or about the home we are now trying to buy (he was the listing agent and builder for the home). I, personally, did not find him to be a honest man. Chris was worried that he was up to something, and hoped Mr. Fuller did not have any surprises prior to closing.

Well, then there is the Austin Curse (that only effects Chris and I). There are 2 liens on the home (so far) that will prevent us from closing this week because Lifestyle Homes declared bankruptcy on Friday. Nice. Oh, and that is not all. Mr and Mrs. Seller of the home - they are getting divorced. I guess it was a surprise divorce for Mrs. Seller. She was to sign over the deed today after their divorce court date. However, their divorce court date was changed to NEXT Monday. Mrs. Seller did not feel comfortable signing over the deed until the divorce court date. UGH! So, just another reason the closing and moving will not happen this week.

In summary - WE ARE NOT MOVING THIS WEEK AS PLANNED! All the boxes are packed and jammed into our garage and main level of our home, the refrigerator is sold and being picked up on Wednesday, our address was changed and all the utilities were set to go on at the new home Friday. So, back on the phone cancelling all that work. The TV stand we ordered online was to be delivered on Friday, so we paid to have the delivery changed to our current address (great...just another thing to move if we ever get to move). How long are we seriously going to have to live like this? And, Alivia was to start at her new school on Monday - but we will still be here! So, that is back on hold. Just when we can see the light, it goes back off.

Now, we wait. We wait to hear if the buyers of our home are willing to patiently wait or will we just be homeless come Friday. We wait to see if we will be able to buy this home or will we forever be threatened with liens. We will continue to have to live in our home that looks like that of a hoarder on the main level with everything we own in boxes and will soon be without even a refrigerator! Alivia does not even know when she is starting her new school. How hard is that!

We hope to break this Austin curse soon. In the meantime, we will wait and see where we will be living and when! 

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