Moving?!?!?!?

With the post below I have gotten comments on the post itself and emails from people wanting to know where we are moving. I guess I forget sometimes that for some friends the blog is the only update they get on our lives and I have not mentioned the house on here yet. Four years ago the house we were living in on the west side of town was sold and we got a rental on the East Side of Town. It was in a newer development by a newer shopping development so even though the East Side of town has a bad rap we thought we were okay since it was all new development. We were sorely mistaken as we have dealt with a lot more vandalism and our cars being broken into more times then we can count. The schools on this side of town are not very good, and we have been fortunate after two years on the waiting list to get the boys in the Charter School on the West Side of town. So, it has been a goal of ours to get back over to the West Side of town.
With the economy the way it is and people losing houses it has caused yes the price of homes to come down but the demand for rentals to go up so the rent price is going up. This has effected us as our rent has gone up quite a bit over the last four years but the biggest jump this last year. Since John received an inheritance from his fathers death we decided to look into purchasing a home and investing his inheritance. We have looked at more houses then I want to mention, and one afternoon our Bishop called and said one of his coworkers came to him and said that his house had been on the market for over a year, that it was a short sale, and it had not had a single offer in the year it has been on the market. He asked the bishop of he knew anyone in his church that was looking to buy a home and said that he and his wife had taken great care of the house and that it had a roof that was only two years old on it and an air conditioner that was a little under two years old. This bishop called us and we went and looked at and loved it.

We put an offer on it a little under two months ago and unfortunately since it is a short sale have not heard an answer from the gentleman's lender yet. Our real estate agent called us last weekend and said she had gotten an email saying that the lender had come to a decision and they hoped to be in contact with us by the end of the month. John said he wont be surprised if we do not hear their answer until Tuesday if not Wednesday as it is the end of the quarter and banks have to report their losses, and since this is a short sale they will take a loss, so John feels they will wait until after they finish this quarters report. We pray that we get this house as it a great size and price for us (5 bed 3 bath 2400 square feet) and our mortgage included property tax and home owners insurance will be cheaper then our rent. Which is a great thing too!