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I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!
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It's been an interesting weekend. Sunday afternoon, I talked to the owner of that house I'm buying for my mother. Curiously, the owner of the house is not the lady that's wanting to sell it to me.
Late Friday afternoon, B, from my lender, calls me with bad news; Title AND attorney problems. We couldn't get an appraisal because the seller's name on the contract doesn't matching title records down at city hall. Seller told me she'd bought the property. I figure there's some records mixup which will require 9000 phone calls to clear up. So I grit my teeth for the rest of the bad news. This lady, what's her name, this M_ S_ attorney person my seller want to close with? No, lender won't be doing business with her. Not on the approved list. GRRR I try to find seller, get voice mail and leave a message. She's out of town but at least she'll know when she checks her voicemail.
So on the way home, I head out to the house to give my mom a project. She needs to make some decisions on flooring, appliances, bathroom fixtures and such and quit digging in her new Barbie dream garden. I swear if I had pulled up 5 minutes later, she'd have had those corral fenceposts she's been fussing about in her trunk. Get thee to Home Depot, woman, and lose thyself in chips and swatches and mind the loo.
Sunday was Home Depot day. Mom ran into an old friend of hers and was telling him how excited she was about her new house. This friend knew the street and the man that used to own that group of houses near the cul de sac, but he was practically sure that last house (our house) hadn't sold.
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Three cell calls later and I'm talking to the owner... the real owner. Sure enough, the lady selling to me does not actually own the house. She's been talking to the owner about buying it. For several months she's been talking to him. But that's all she's been doing... talking. She hasn't signed a contract. In fact, the owner had given up on her and was about to start advertising again until he got an email from her dictating to him that she needed to close on the place this coming Friday at 11AM. with this M_ S_ attorney person (My closing with seller was scheduled at 2:30PM that same afternoon). The mention of M_ S_ gets an immediate reaction out of the owner. I would call it disgust.
Now I got nothing against a good flip. But this lady crossed some lines.
Seller announced herself to my Mother as the owner the first time Mom inspected the property.
Seller told the owner she'd turned on the utilities. We did that.
Seller told the owner she'd been cleaning up the place. We're doing that.
Seller told me she wanted to close this month because she didn't want to pay additional fees on a property I now know she doesn't even own, nor does she have under contract.
Seller is a lying weasel. Which reminds me, I need to check out this M_ S_ person. They run in packs, these people.
Long story short, if that's even possible at this point, I am saving 37.5% off a purchase price I was already satisfied with by dealing with the owner instead of the lying weasel. And I get the distinct impression the owner, after having been strung along by lying weasel all these months, is enjoying wrecking her deal.
How was your weekend?
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