House hunting sucks!

[demonbrat_98]

My parents are in the process of buying their first house EVER! Being in the Air Force, all our previous houses were either base housing or renting. So the weekend before Easter we find the perfect house - 5 bedrooms, 2 fireplaces, 2 1/2 baths. It's been on the market since September and is an estate sale. We offered on Wednesday - lowballed because the kitchen/bathrooms need updating. He counters, we counter, he counters. On Good Friday, we decide to accept his counteroffer and notify his real estate agent. We have not heard anything since. Supposedly, the owner was on a cruise last week and was therefore unreachable. He should have been back no later than yesterday. We are still waiting. You'd think he would have told his agent that if we accepted his counteroffer to get the paperwork rolling. We're now worried that he's stringing us along while he waits for a better offer. He seemed very hesitant about our loan for some reason - my dad has a Veteran's Administration backed loan, which means its solid. The owner was worried about the VA inspection, which makes us think there is something wrong with the house or that he is worried there is something wrong. We really want this house, but we've starting resigning ourselves to the fact that it's probably not going to happen. If it doesn't happen tomorrow, it's probably not going to happen.