We had been actively watching the market in Agoura where the boys go to school for the past year. We had narrowed the location , the size of the house we needed and what were absolute deal breakers ......
Today I am telling this crazy story of our house hunting months....
We found a house in Old Agoura, closer to the high school and a horse community. But if I said it was a FIXER that would be an understatement. It had and still has a hole in the roof /ceiling from a large tree branch falling on the roof... it had been a rental and not lived in for some time. Neglected to say the least. I am thankful that I have watched enough HGTV to know that you have to be able to see past the superficial ick and look at the bones of the house ...
So, we wrote the first offer....then another, then another. we NEVER RECEIVED ONE RESPONSE! I kept thinking, if you don't like the offer, then say NO! OR, here is a counter offer..... I wrote a letter to her, mother to mother, with the new school year quickly approaching and the boys not having a place to call home. The uncertainty of where we would move was starting to show, clearly she didn't care. So I was so mentally spent from her lack of common courtesy that I had to detach. I stopped caring ...
Understand the timeline... we moved into a short term rental thinking this was the house....
Although we have been actively looking all along, we would always go back to that house, it really had everything we would ever need.
Since we were not getting any type of response, I decided to take matters into my own hands,I started to investigate who owned this home. I found out many things via public records... let's just say, I was happy with my intel. I called her Realtor, asked her why someone puts their home on the market and doesnt respond to offers blah, blah, blah....She apparently we are not the only people she is not responding! Others were holding out hope! About 3 weeks ago we submitted last and final.... her Realtor even said she would be stupid not to take our offer.....history again repeated itself.... NOTHING....
I would say to Steve that I think it is a blessing in disguise, it wasn't supposed to be . I believe everything happens for a reason, I still don't understand the reason at the moment, but I put out the energy into the universe my new mantra,"our perfect house if coming". I wasn't sure how it would manifest itself but that is what I did and said anytime I was asked about house hunting....
Fast forward to last week, Steve and I met up while the little boys were at football practice. He told me that he saw laborers at THE HOUSE... so we decided to take a walk and see what we could see...well let me tell ya.... some lady.. cruised up on a road bike just as we were walking past the house.. it was Martha, the infamous owner....
I was in shock and couldnt say anything , we just squeezed each others hands and kept walking. We briefly made eye contact, with me thinking yeah B### do you remember us from the letter we sent? The family picture?
The entire conversations back to the field was about how I should go introduce myself and ask her why she never responded....
I drove back and Martha was gone....
But, I found out what she looks like.... not that I really cared....Today, I'm driving to pick up the little boys at school and guess who I saw...
I kinda wanted to honk and have her tip over...
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