This is Tiresome

Shortly after posting my last entry here, we received an offer on our house from the couple we were waiting for. After a little price negotiation, we settled on a final offer and got things in motion for a closing date of July 17th. Then everything hit the fan.

Two days later, we had the home inspector from Hell. He spent 3 hours going over every little detail of this house (it's only 5 years old) along with one of the buyers. At the end, he had the buyer convinced the house would need extensive repairs, an insect infestation and was in danger of collapsing. The end result is that the sale fell through and now our house is back on the market. We'll be spending the next week paying contractors to come in to tell us there's nothing wrong with the place.

From what we've heard from others selling their homes this year, these nit-picky inspections are becoming the rule. Alas, in our case, the buyer didn't know enough to be able to tell that the inspector either didn't know a lot of what he was talking about or was flat out wrong. At least we'll be able to take care of a few of those nit-picky details before we have to endure the next inspection when another buyer eventually comes along.