I didn't get my house.

[quakerboy]

It will be someone else's home. I feel very dejected. I have never in my life seen a space designed more perfectly to match how I live my life. Just standing in it made me happy. Now I have to start looking all over again, and I have a strong feeling everything I look at now will pale in comparison, as all the ones previous were blah in comparison. I just don't know where to start.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Every loss is an opportunity to gain.

I didn't get my first house either. I ended up buying one that I thought I liked less, but that turned out to be much better for me.

[quakerboy]

7. Thats what everyone says

They also said "we know you like it, but it was one of the first you saw and you have to keep looking to make sure" Weeks of fruitless looking later, instead of being the only offer, we were the last of three. And apparently not the best.

[AlCzervik]

2. i'm sorry, i know it's hard when you mentally have yourself moved in but you will find

another place that you will love just as much.

[quakerboy]

6. I was past that

my family has never had a good place to gather, and this was ideal for that. I was past moving in, and had moved on to having family again.

[BarenakedLady]

3. I guess this is one reason I'm building.

That, plus the fact that existing houses for sale around here aren't all that great at the moment. I'm also lucky that I got a good deal on a build. I can't get a 3 bedroom existing house for the price in the area.

Good luck.

[quakerboy]

8. It was a kick ass price

I dont think I can afford to build. Though I am not sure what all is involved there. I should ask my father the city engineer, I suppose.

[mainegreen]

4. God that sucks. That happened to us in our house hunting.

Yet, we found another house later that we liked more.

Hope the same happens to you!

[quakerboy]

5. I hope so too

But I have never seen any space better suited to me. Not in my life. I am finding it hard to hope. Yesterday was despondency. Today I am moving on to plotting my revenge. Against the universe. Fortunately for all, I ascribe to the old saying that the best revenge is living well.

[ogneopasno]

9. When we were moving, we put an offer on a house contingent on our house selling within the next 60

days. The other family could take another offer if the prospective buyers had cash in hand, but otherwise the house was ours. After making an offer and having it accepted, our house didn't sell within the 60 days, and we didn't get the house we wanted. It was a log house, on 20 acres (half of it wooded, half pasture), with a trout stream running through the property. It was nice and simple inside, although the master bedroom had the luxury of a double-headed shower (aw yeah!). I often wonder who's in that house now.

We ended up with a better house in a better area. We didn't know it would turn out better, but it did.

[intheflow]

10. I'm sorry, quakerboy.

That's just how I felt when I found my house. I was able to buy mine, but then had to sell it just a couple years later. I cried so hard the night I moved out that the next morning my eyes were literally swollen shut. But you never know. As my friend says, "rejection is perfection." Which means it's unfolding the way it's supposed to; if you had gotten that house, it could have turned out to be miserable in some way you can't possibly imagine. :hug:

[crimsonblue]

11. why not steal it...

I know a guy who knows a guy that can put it on jacks and have it halfway across the country by midnight.

[quakerboy]

12. Interesting

Its a condo. The neighbors might object to the shared wall disapearing.

If you can get around that, and make it affordable to do so, then you need to hook me up with a name and number.