we dodged a bullet

The house plans are on hold. Our house is still up for sale but we are no longer in contract to build a new house. After our contract was signed, the builder made a change to our contract stating they had final say on all structural decisions with the house. Jason and I were unhappy with this clause for obvious reasons and were supposed to go in and sign a new contract. The girls have dance on Mondays and Jason was off so the boys were going to stay home with him. We had been trying to resign the contract for over a week and the builder's realtor was unavailable. We didn't hear from him until noon and he wanted us to come in that afternoon. I was pretty irritated with the late notice he gave us and decided to just reschedule the meeting for the next day. I'm so glad I did. We received an email Monday afternoon alerting us to some major real estate changes happening down the street from where we were going to build. The city had purchased some run down apartments and were converting them to federal housing. We were pretty upset and disappointed that our beautiful new house was going to be a few minutes away from federal housing and knew our market value would plummet before we even broke ground. Thankfully we were able to get out of the contract and are now back at square one looking for a new house.