The roof, the roof, the roof is...

... in great condition!

As of this evening, we will be under contract. Out of the contingency stage and officially moving forward with the purchase. Woo-hoo!

I do want to give some more background on "roofgate", since I didn't know the full story when I wrote the previous blog post. Bear with me.

We are buying a house from a young couple that has lived there for only three years. They have to move by April 15, or else he will lose his job. This basically gives them 5 weeks to buy a house and move before our closing. They want to wait to be under contract before putting an offer in on a house.

Since they are in a hurry, they didn't want to delay the contingency any longer. They had just had the roof inspected three years ago and were confident that it is in sound condition.

Unfortunately, we didn't find out until almost 5 pm on Friday that they were not extending, and our inspector could not get to the house until Monday morning. We worried that this wasn't good enough and we would be forced to buy the house without having the roof inspected. Around 7 pm on Friday, we heard that they agreed to extend it until Monday at midnight, giving us enough time to get an inspector there and extra time for the snow to melt off the roof.

I have no clue what we would have done if the snow hadn't melted enough by now. We probably would have lost the house. No need to worry about that anymore, thank goodness!