Still waiting for HUD to finish with our offer. It is so frustrating. It is also very unfortunate that our first home buying experience is purchasing a short sale home. Everything is taking a long time. Everything. Never listen to a bank, or anybody in the government for that matter, when they say "3-5 days" (unless they are collecting payment for something). Three to five days means two weeks, three weeks, so on and so forth. We put an offer in on this house in NOVEMBER. It was accepted by the sellers immediately, the bank took some negotiating and hair pulling (them being the pullers, the jerks, the sloths), but we finally reached an agreement...That was a few weeks ago....It is almost March, and we were supposed to hear from the last reviewer a week ago (which would have been the "day 5" in "3-5" days). Of course now the soonest we will hear something is Tuesday, because Monday is President's day, and as we all know the banks and government offices are closed so they can spend time at home celebrating George Washington's birthday. (yeah, I'm sure that's what they're doing).

They really don't want to sell this house...Brian and I are hanging on because we love this house that much...But I don't know how much longer I am willing to hang in here...

Do yourself a favor and steer clear of short sales and foreclosures unless the house is THE house you see your family in and are willing to be taken advantage of (time and money) by various departments who don't care about you one iota. I really am ready to walk away from this...