The House situation. Aka BLAH!

This is pretty much how our whole family felt yesterday.

For the past 3 months we have been waiting, fairly patiently to hear back from the bank on the offer we put on a house we wanted pretty bad. We were so patient we moved out of our house, the weekend before Christmas and have been living with my parents, in one bedroom and all of our belongings are in storage. Finally yesterday our realtor called us with news. But not necessarily good news. The bank had come back with a counter offer asking more than the house appraised for. I cried, I will admit it, I sat and stared at nothing because I just didn't know what to do. Our realtor said there was another house in the neighborhood that was in the same price range that was 200 sq/ft bigger so we decided to go look at it. I don't know how it was bigger, it looked smaller to me and just wasn't right for our family. So our amazing realtor made a ton of phone calls throughout the day yesterday and the sellers agent said that if we resubmitted an offer at the appraised value with the appraisal they would see what the bank said. So once again we are waiting. This has been an insane experience, I am hoping that in 10 maybe 20 years we can look back and laugh but right now I am ready to crawl into a hole with a gallon of ice cream until the bank decides to be reasonable and GIVE ME MY HOUSE! If it were only that simple! Until then the waiting continues!