Why do I bother?

I've just spent my morning making pancakes for all my 'work mates'. Now come lunch they've decided to have a BBQ. Not a single person has given me any though, and asked me if there is something I might like to eat. Nope it's steak and sauasgaes or nothing.

I'm sick of being invisable.

Interesting

I was musing a few blog postings back about what makes a Millionaire, and here is the answer.

Garrrr

My boss keeps using this baby voice every time he talks to clients on the phone, it drives me nuts. I want to staple a pack of pampers to his head.

What a bunch of close minded knob jockies

Culture-less fuck wits

We didn't get it

It's dissapointing, but I'm trying not to take it to heart, instead I'm trying to treat it as a learning experience.

Something even better is bound to come up.

Torture

We made our offer on Saturday morning, it's now Tuesday arvo and we still don't know what the go is! I've rung and left messages, I'm going to try again at lunch time, I hope we get an answer soon because I'm over it.

People are F-ing A-holes Part 2 0r Asses like a Japanese flag

I am guessing most of you have read Tony's blog, and will understand why we're having a hard time sitting down. That's right, because someone is trying to give us an ass fucking, and it hurts!

It seems to me just a little too convenient that a house which has been on the market for 3 months with not a single bite, 3 hours after we've made an offer gets a mysterious offer from another couple. Now is it just me or does that sound like complete fucking bullshit and that this ass hole real estate agent thinks just because we are first home buyers we are idiots!?! He's picked the wrong couple let me tell you, I'm ready to stand my ground on this.

Yes we would love this house, but there are plenty more houses in the sea, and we're in no mad rush to buy any old thing. It has to be the right price as well as the right house. So as they all say think with your head not your heart, and that's what I'm doing.

Will we get the bargain of a life time?

Now we play the waiting game, will our offer be accepted or won't it? At the very last minute I decided I'd offer $5,000 less than originally planned. I was expecting a fight on my hands with the real estate guy, but he didn't bat an eye lid or say a thing except 'OK' as he wrote down the figure.

So from here, he has gone directly to the man who is selling the house to present him with the offer, and so we hope that we will hear if our offer has been accepted very soon.

It was interesting when I asked his about the seller and how long he has lived there. he said 'since it was built in 1968'. So apparently him and his wife lived there with their son since day one. Obviously the son moved out when he was old enough, and his wife died about 4 years ago now, so it's just him. He is keen to sell and buy something in the country to retire to. I'm hoping this means he will very seriously think about taking our offer.

Once we finished signing all the paperwork etc the real estate guy said 'I have to ask..' and basically went on to fish for us being able to afford a higher offer. I put on my best sales person hat, and went on to explain how we were mostly looking at units around the $350,000 range and though we might be able to stretch ourselves to that house at a low offer, but as it is we're pushing it to the most we can afford. It scares me how well I can bullshit sometimes.

So between the seller's story and my story, I am hoping we can get it for under $375,000. I feel confidant that we're in with a good chance.

We're so close

Tomorrow we have a guest to come visit us in the morning; that guest is a real estate agent. We hope to make him an offer he can't refuse. Actually even if we offered him $1, it would still be an offer by law he has to present to the seller. I'm a curdled mix of nervousness and excitement, I'm not really sure how I should be feeling.

So if you're interested click this link to have a look at the house we're hoping to buy. At the moment it looks like someones Nana lives there, but I don't think it will take me too much to make it like a home.

So here are the stats: 3 bed, one bath, big 760sqM block. Jarrah wooden floor boards under the lino, neat and tidy front yard, big shed out the back, and just generally not having to deal with strata assholes! Yay!!

So we are going to have a few conditions when it comes to making our offer. We will be wanting a termite inspection, a building inspection, proof from the council that the patio and shed got approval, and lastly being subject to finance.

Watch this space to find out how we went.

I keep asking my brain to think and I'll I get is

DEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR