Highs and Lows

September has been a month filled with highs and lows … but mostly lows.  It started off on a devastating note with our beloved Jasper passing away (something we are still trying to deal with), then it moved onto happier moments with finding a house we wanted to buy. If you had read the previous entry on this blog, you would have found that we were really looking forward to moving into the house even though the steps for moving into it were keeping us really busy.  Probably it was a good thing as it helped to keep our minds off of Jasper.

Unfortunately, at the last moment (literally) we had to walk away from the house.  There were several “Red Flags” cropping up but the final decision to walk away came when the two most critical documents that were needed to finalize the deal could not be produced by the vendors.  One document was a change in the restrictive covenant to say that we could build a garage on the property at a location of our choice.  Without being able to build a garage we were not interested in the property at all.

The second document needed was a Water Quality Control test that was due September 21, 3 days prior to closing.  The vendor couldn’t produce that either.  If there had been a problem with the water and a new well had to be drilled, the cost would have been between $4000 - $5000.  Without those two documents we were not willing to risk taking possession of the house.  Like I said before, there were other “Red Flags” that I am not at liberty to say at this time, but without those 2 documents it was enough for us to legally walk away from the deal.

Now you would think that because the documents were not produced in time, and we were legally in the right to walk away, that our deposit of $5000.00 would be returned and we would carry on with life.  No such luck.  The vendors have decided to be vindictive and are refusing to allow the release of our deposit.  They can’t give a valid reason for it, but apparently all they have to do is say don’t release the deposit and they can tie it up for months … or even years!

Of course anyone who knows me, KNOWS that I will not just lay down and take that!  No … not me!  We have now filed a law suit in Small Claims Court here in Summerside.  It’s not what we had planned on doing for our retirement but we are not about to walk away from $5000 … especially when we were legally in our rights to walk away from the property!  We are supposed to be spending this winter in Florida or some place warmer than what it is going to get here in PEI.  Because of how long the process is to file with the courts and get it before the judge, it looks like we are going to be here for the winter.  We will have to get a motel to stay in once the weather gets too cold … or the snow starts flying.  The moho just isn’t equipped to withstand living in it in below zero weather.

Oh yeah, have I mentioned …. all the RV parks have now closed for the winter so I bet you are all wondering where we have been staying since September 24^th.  Well I’ll give you a hint … “Welcome Wal-mart Shoppers”.

September started off in the worst possible way and ended not much better.  October can only get better … we hope.