The Crazy House Hunt Begins!

Yay! I made it back to Blog Land! I'm really looking forward to making new friends and getting in touch with everyone in blog land! It seems like such a happy place :)!

Ok, so two days ago we found out the home that we have been renting was selling in forclosure auction the next day (yesterday). So if any of you have been in this situation, you know how crazy it can get. We had 4 people come to look at the house on Wednesday night, when we found out it was going up for sale. Then yesterday,  THE MASSES HIT! It was CHAOS! I probably had 50 people show up in 3 hours, walk up to my door and read the sign that I posted regarding how much rent we were paying and that we hoped to stay. Some knocked, and others were rude by looking over my fence. At one point, Peyton and I were upstairs looking out the window at all these people and their cars, and one lady parked in my driveway! I was LIVID! So we yelled at her, she heard us, jumped in her car and took off! That'll teach her! I finally posted a sign to NOT look over the fence and respect our house. I caught two gentleman peeking over our fence and I walked out and said, "can you PLEASE not look over our fence?". He replied, "Well if we are going to spend a couple hundred grand on something, we want to see what it looks like." HA! I quickly replied, "well I JUST found out yesterday that we were losing our house, so ya think I care!?". I was SO irritated with the nerve of this guy. So after the masses commenced, obviously when the auction started, I tried laying down to collect myself from the distraction of the day and the feeling of my home being violated when I heard another knock. DUN DUN DUN! Open the door...."Hello, I'm the new owner!". OOOOhhhhh jeeeezzzzz. Ok, tell me you have good news. He was actually a relatively nice, younger dude with a lot of grace in his demeanor. He works for a company which buys houses, fixes them up, and flips them a week later. A house sells better vacant in this situation. He told us that we don't have to pay rent in July, but they are hoping we can be out by August. This seems a little sketchy, but by law, he didn't have to give us any notice whatsoever because our landlord was in forclosure prior to us signing our lease. So all the laws we thought protected us didnt. But that's ok, because it's life, and maybe it was the Lord saying, you CAN find a new home, and your time here at this house is over. Luckily for me, I believe everything happens for a reason...

So we looked at a house last night. I'm still trying to see how I feel about it, but Curtis came up with some good points. It's a little more expensive than what we were hoping, and further from both of our jobs, but there is NO pet deposit (they have 3... yes we're not the only ones, 3 pitbulls that are the size of a small horse) and the renters are the homeowners, so there's no leasing agent or stupid added fees. They are looking to relocate closer to their jobs and rent a house, and just get this mortgage paid. There were scriptures all over the wall and an open bible as a decoration in the house. Not that that means anything, but, hopefully, they are blessed with the knowledge of Christ and they are honest in their dealings. So, we are praying about it, but we would be able to move in August 1st.

So God has worked in mysterious ways again, and I'm actually at peace with this whole situation. I pray that fewer people in the rentals around the world have to deal with the trauma this auction sale situation causes, and I feel their pain and pray that it works out as great as it has for us! "And I'm extremely grateful for the gentleman who broke the news to us. He is just doing his job, but he seems dilligent in offering what will work for us :).

To finish off, I HAVE GOT to show off some of our new family pics! It's the first time we ever got them and its soooo super exciting!!!

These are courtesy of my Dear friend Ryan Vaughn at Jubilantimages.com!