A Hard Decision

Remember when you bought your first home?  How excited you were?  How anxious you were to find out that everything was great with the home inspection? 

Cue Leslie & Ryan last week.

Imagine that house had a couple cracks in the foundation.  Minor ones.  You'd do some investigating right? 

Cue our realtor, the seller's realtor and the condo corporation.

"Has the house had any water damage?"  "Nope"

Cue a random chat with the next door neighbours.

"Oh yah they had a flood a couple years ago" 
"Oh REALLY?"

A couple phone calls & emails later...sure enough, they had water damage.  Supposedly "preventative measures" have been taken thus since, however, we found ourselves posing the question "how much more damage can happen?"

Cue an extensive conversation between Ryan & myself.

Some reasoning.  Some arguing.  Some laughing.  Some crying.  Lots of frustration.

Last but not least, cue the phone call to our realtor.

"We've decided that we're not comfortable knowing there have been issues with the foundation and previous flooding, so we're going to walk."

Cue the sad music.

Goodbye pretty house that we loved.  You were so close to being what we wanted.

And our search begins again.