08/13/2026
REAL ESTATE DIARY:
Well, we’re back to house hunting.
After putting the same buyer under contract on the same house TWICE.
Here’s how we got here…
My buyer found a fully remodeled house he really liked. We made an offer, got it accepted, and then discovered a problem we weren’t expecting: the seller hadn’t owned the house for 90 days yet.
My buyer is using FHA financing, so the house wasn’t eligible for his loan yet.
Thankfully, the seller was willing to wait. We let a few weeks pass, hit the date we needed to hit, wrote a brand new contract and got the house under contract AGAIN.
Okay. NOW we’re buying a house.
Except then we had inspections.
The inspector flagged a foundation concern, so my buyer investigated further. He had a foundation company take a closer look, and the concern turned out to be more significant than he was comfortable taking on.
Could another buyer look at the exact same information and decide to move forward? Absolutely.
My buyer decided this one wasn’t for him.
So after weeks of working through this purchase, two contracts, the FHA timing issue, inspections, additional evaluations, phone calls, paperwork and deadlines, we signed a mutual release.
His earnest money is coming back.
And now we start again.
This is one of those real estate stories that probably doesn’t look like much from the outside.
You see us open the door.
You see the SOLD sign.
You see the closing picture.
What you don’t see is everything in between. The financing rules. Contract deadlines. Inspection issues. Additional evaluations. Phone calls. Problem solving. And a whole lot of conversations helping clients understand their options so they can make good decisions.
And sometimes, after weeks of all of that, the outcome isn’t a closing.
Sometimes it’s giving your client enough information and enough room to decide, “This isn’t the one.”
That doesn’t mean the work was wasted.
That IS the work.
There are a whole lot of hours between opening that first door and handing someone the keys, and not every one of those hours leads to a closing.
So there’s no SOLD sign or closing picture for this one. YET.
Just a buyer who knows more than he did a few weeks ago, his earnest money coming back to him, and his Realtor opening up the MLS and starting the search all over again.
That’s the job, too.
Back to opening doors we go.