NOT SOLD...sigh...

So, the nightmare scenario has happened. Our "chain" has collapsed with "buyer number 3" changing his/her mind and pulling out causing all of the stress and worry over the last two months to multiply exponentially. We are devastated. The moving van was supposed to arrive on March 26th, the dog and cat are leaving next week (and they are still going to stay with Mom and Dad), the boys and my Dad were supposed to follow on the 27th and Tim, me, Mae and Del were supposed to be arriving in Kingston on April 1st (Mae says that's because "we're the fools"). Maybe Mae has a point. We were wary of this whole "chain" right from day one but were so happy to have sold for full asking price and we knew the people buying our place were so damn happy, hell we even have their mail already arriving here! This country SUCKS and I can't wait to see the back of it. So, many phone calls and emails later we have canceled everything in regards to the move and reinstated everything here that we had canceled like utilities, taxes, school placements, selling our car, etc. etc. I don't know how people sleep at night knowing the stress and pain they cause others by changing their mind. Why the English don't revolt and demand a revamp of the real estate system is beyond me. You hear stories like ours every day, yet on and on it goes. Our estate agents were terrible and sat on their laurels after having to do almost nothing to sell our house, they let this bumble on for the last 2 months and because of the complete inability of all of the agents to stay on top of things, this is the result. The only bright spot in this is that I won't have to give one red cent to our agents.

I'm not a happy bunny today. Poor Tim is trapped in Canada and feels so helpless in all this. To top it all off, I have to tell the kids after school that their lives are turned upside down again, poor little things.

I hate this,
Laura :o(