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Well, on Monday we went out again with D after a 3 week break from house hunting. We had really been hoping to hear something from the banks during that time so that we wouldn't have to make the decision whether or not to start looking at houses again, but since there has been no work from the listing agent on our offer after D has been trying to call him for 3 days, L and I decided that we should start looking again while we wait on our LYH. We saw three houses that day and walked away thinking that we had possibly found one that would get us to revoke our offer on the LYH, but that we needed to see them back to back. D is very accommodating, so he was able to set up a second showing of the new house and what I believe was now our 4th showing of the LYH for last night, and we were able to bring 3/4ths of our parental units along with us for additional opinions.

Both houses are very nice, and we could see ourselves living in either one, there is just so much more that the LYH has to offer to us, and after looking at them again (and finally being able to make it into the LYH's garage) we all agreed that the LYH is still the one and that we should continue to have patience and wait to hear what the bank has to say on our offer. While there are a lot of things that we liked better in the new house (i.e., better basement, 2nd bathroom, deck off the back), overall the LYH has more of what we want in a house, and L and I can see ourselves living in it for at least the next 10 years. It was a pretty good feeling when D had each of us put a number behind out back (1= LYH, 2= New House) for which house we preferred and every single one of us had picked the LYH as his or her favorite!

D thinks that we have about a 70% chance of getting a positive response from both banks (the seller has two mortgages) after our initial offer, and he said that he'll continue to bug them as much as possible, because for as long as it takes for Short Sale homes to go through, half of the time it's just paper work that sits on someone's desk until they get around to looking at and completing it.

Until then, L and I will continue to stalk the MLS listings in search for something we might like better than the LYH, but are going to continue to wish, hope, pray, etc. for a positive answer from the banks pretty soon!