St Patrick - Where is our luck?!

The week before St. Patrick's day, we asked for another update on our townhouse offer.  When our agent came back with nothing, we said enough is enough.  We want to back out of this mess, but first we want to look for something new.  

On Thursday, March 13th, I went on birth control pills to calm my reproductive system.  Unsure of whats ahead of us, we enjoyed the Saturday with our friends drinking green beer, green wine and ignored the diet for a day. 

The following morning, we looked for townhouses again.  After seeing 5 or 6, we knew for sure we were done with our original offer.  We  now can afford places with much more space and closer to our ideal area.  With our top two in mind, I called my dad asking for him to drop everything to check these places out.  He wasn't thrilled about either but we really liked one that wouldn't need much work.  We took the night to think it over and knew when we woke up Monday, we wanted to put in another offer.  Our agent was going to prep the paperwork for us and we would be able to stop at his office to sign and finalize everything.  

Tuesday was our official IVF consultation with our fertility doctor.  This was really an information session about what to expect during the upcoming weeks.  We learned that there will be a lot of appointments, self inflicted hormone injections a couple times per day, and two outpatient procedures.  There was nothing that we needed to do now, but count down the days to get started. 

Right from our consultation, we ran to our realtor's office to sign all the documents to get our offer submitted.  He told us that because we were dealing with a foreclosure, we would probably hear back the same day or at least by the next day.  We also officially retracted our original offer in hopes that this new one would be all we needed.  Our agent was right.  The next morning, we heard that we needed to submit our highest and best offer by 4pm that day.  Of course we scramble to get in contact with our mortgage broker to see what we can reasonably come back with, and unfortunately we went in with our highest and best and lost out.  Better luck next time...  Now we have no house lined up at all.  We are back to square one in a market that is on the rise with the inventory of properties at the lowest in decades.  awesome.