WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Congrats!
Thanks! <3
And it even got kinda-sorta better. A day or two after we got word that I can have my house, the guy who sold me the house called us up. Said that he's pretty sure he made a mistake in our contract.
I had put a deposit down on this
https://www.riverviewhomesinc.com/product/atlantic-icma95075-modular-home-p/ (henceforth to be referred to as #1) house. I like it, it was only going to run me about $110k once everything was said and done, including setting up all the utilities. It wasn't the house I
really really wanted, but I have zero problems with that house.
The house I REALLY REALLY wanted is this one:
https://www.riverviewhomesinc.com/product/atlantic-esda26402-sectional-home-p/ (henceforth to be referred to as #2). It's gorgeous, it's considerably larger, has a humongous walk-in pantry, and it's just overall nicer. However, it was another $25k more expensive, and I couldn't justify that much more money when the first house was perfectly fine. I can technically afford both, but the first one I'd have paid off within two years. The second one would take me a bit longer.
Sooo, guy asks us to come up to his site ASAP. We oblige. We get there, he tells us that he put the wrong model number down on my contract, and so I'd actually put a deposit down on house #2. And in the few months it had taken me to get a zoning variance, he had sold the model for house #1. Now, being manufactured homes, it's not really a HUGE problem. They could simply build me another one.
However, the prices for
everything had gone up in the interim. And unfortunately, since I hadn't actually put a deposit down on house #1, he couldn't give me the same price we had back in the Spring. During those few months, the price went up roughly $20k, and there was a new clause in the contracts that said that the price of the piers needed for installation could also change at the last minute, and they could easily go up another $5k.
So suddenly, my bargain, "perfectly fine" house could cost me the same amount of money as the super nice one I really wanted in the first place, but couldn't justify the money for.
Kinda wanting to throw up / seeing a potential small legal windfall depending on how decent his company was at this time, I asked the guy what the house I'd
actually put the deposit down on cost.
Thank fuck, the price can't change since I'd cut them a check months ago. Otherwise, it too would have gone up at least $20k.
So yeah, I'm spending more than I initially intended to, but the world justified me getting the house I really wanted.
I'm so fucking excited. I
might even get to move in by the end of the year. If not then, definitely not much longer past the new year.