Don't just stand there, do something!

You know the saying, "Don't count your chicks before they are hatched". Well, we've been trying so hard not to do that with regards to our house sale, but it was difficult. We had hoped to sell the house, get the equity, pay off all our debts in the UK and still have enough left over for a down payment on a house here in Canada. Starting afresh, new country, new house, clean slate...We have viewed so many properties here to get a feel of what it is we wanted, been a lovely exercise, but things are not going to plan, eggs have not hatched, and the champagne in the fridge remain unopened.

Was such a lovely thought, we hung on to it. Clinging on by digging our fingernails into the earth just as we were about to fall into the abyss a no sale.....time has dragged on, we kept hoping to exchange and then it finally hit me. Why wait for her, get a plan B going, if she buys, great, problem solved. If she doesn't, plan B and C will be fired into action.

That's exactly what I did, I discussed Plan B and C with Dave, told all parties involved and now it is all in action... do I feel better? A whole lot better because I know what I've got to do. And the buyer? Well, I have thought up several reasons for her rather odd and unfair behaviour.

a) She's got postnatal depression and cannot cope with anything

b) her elderly father is ill and therefore her mind has not been on the sale

c) she's anxious about buying a property on her own and having to do some work to it

d) she's unhappy that we would not reduce the price of the house to give her enough money left to make it into her paradise

e) she's changed her mind, but has already forked out money on surveys and solicitors, not to mention time. Therefore finding it hard to be the one to say, sorry, but I don't want the house anymore

f) she is a raving lunatic!

Forget (f) that's just the nasty in me coming out.

Plan B- house now back on the market and viewings to follow

Plan C- house to be put back on the rental market once the 30th Nov, 2010, deadline we have given the buyer runs out.

So, am not just standing there, there being Canada, but rather am doing something, all the way from over here, bit more hassley but by no means impossible.