Ping Pong

As of late I've started to think of our housing situation as a ping pong match.  It seems like almost weekly we back out of this deal, then get back on board, only to repeat it again and again.  It's really tiring.

First, Arbor has a very bad tendency to say everything you want to hear while you're standing in the office, and then when you go out to the site you see all kinds of discrepancies.  That was always the case with our first house.  We'd demand for a fix of something, they would say they were back there working on it, and we'd walk in to find the problem area still there, and in the process find 3 or 4 more issues.

I thought we were finished with that process when we walked away after the great flood of '07.  But no, like morons we were lured back into trouble with promises of lower pricing, upgrades, and a "personal commitment" to getting us into the house we wanted and deserved.  That, to say the least, hasn't been panning out.

On Saturday I walked into the office and told them we were through.  Finished with their empty promises and lies.  Finished with the constant disappointment that we've dealt with for the last 6 months.  I thought, for a minute, that we might actually walk away for good this time.

Then, once again, we're being lured back in.  I don't know what will happen, but we've made them commit to getting us in the house by the first week of December.  We told them if they can't do that, we're walking away and want all of our money back.  So we'll see what they have to say about that.