In limbo

The house buying saga continues.  We thought we had found the ideal house for us.  It was an older home in a town within reasonable driving distance of  the VA hospital where my husband gets his healthcare.  As it was an older home we got a structural engineer to do the inspection and it came back with some major problems.  We got quotes to fix the bigger problems and they came to over $21,000 with the possibility of  even more costs once they started to do the work.  With the other problems the cost would have been almost $30,000.  This was without the problems with the existing garage which had no doors, no concrete floor and  was not in good condition and would need tearing down and rebuilding.  We knew that when we made our offer of the asking price and were prepared to pay the cost of that ourselves. We asked for a reduction in the price of $25,000 though to cover some of the costs of the major repairs to the house.  They would not agree to that.  They did say they would get the repairs done themselves but when they told us they had payed someone to fix one of the bigger problems and it cost only $256,  (our contractor had quoted $4,000) we knew that we would still have a huge expense if we carried on the the purchase, so we got out of the contract.

He had another couple of days in the hospital the week before last so we really need to get moved soon but we do not need a house with a lot of problems to deal with.  

On our house front, we are still trying to find someone to do some work for us on the attached sunroom.  We can't get any one so we are trying to do it ourselves.  Now bearing in mind, I am 74 years old, my husband is 77 and quite disabled and has been in the hospital 3 times since April and the temperature has been in the high 90's for two months now, we are not getting very much done.

So, in limbo we are!

Life in limbo is not great.  We are carrying on doing things towards moving.  I have cleaned out most of our cupboards and scrubbed them.  We are throwing out things we think we won't need but the comforting feel of our home has gone for me.  

After a lot of thinking and searching for homes we have decided to try and get our house ready to sell before we seriously look for another house.  We have both spent way too much time looking at houses for sale, we need a break but we know we have to move.

Like I said above, life in limbo is not great.

Watch this space, it could all change at any given time lol!