Quits...

I'm calling it quits on the blue house. I submitted an offer, they countered, and then I called my parents. Big mistake. Apparently they really didn't want me to get the house in the first place, but just didn't want to tell me. I wanted to ask about the counteroffer (in which lines were drawn through four items and sometimes replaced with a different number). I ended up going through a runaround involving FHA loans, inspections, and how scheisty my realtor is.

I wanted to ask them simply what a reasonable counter-counter would be. I was actually a little impressed that I put in an offer for $14,500 less than the asking price and they dropped the asking price by $6,500 in the counter. They also knocked up the closing date by nearly 30 days. Crazyness. So I was hoping to discuss with my folks (who, when I talked to them last night about the contract, volunteered to contribute some money as a gift and a matching amount as a loan) if a slightly earlier closing date would conflict with the wedding of my brother too much.

Instead, I got a lecture about loans (as if I haven't looked up every loan under the planet that comes from any kind of a bank or mortgage broker!!! As if I'm not aware that rates vary! Like I want to pay any more than I absolutely have to!). Then I got a second lecture about getting an inspector to the place before I signed anything (genius, I couldn't get the contract sent to the seller without signing [but it isn't binding until both parties agree]), and that I should "really find out what inspectors look for".

What I don't understand is that they are giving me the impression that they think I'm inept. They don't think I'd look into things before going for them? They don't think that in the past four months that I've been searching that I've been carefully considering my budget and all the possible constraints to any property? That I wouldn't read something before I signed it and made ABSOLUTELY certain that I was at least comfortable with the terms? That I wouldn't carefully plot out my timeline so that I wouldn't forget anything?

Yeesh.

Parents.

I hate it when people make me cry.