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The buyers came by on Tuesday with an inspector and a hardwood floor guy to take measurements(apparently they don't like our tile selection). The wife kept apologizing to Leslie because she knew we had built the house and felt bad that they would be making all these changes to it. I think you can call that a pretty good sign that the sale is going to go through. It better because at this point, in my mind, I've already moved out. We had a guy in the ward who is a general contractor come check out the old house and he confirmed what I thought the first time we looked at it. That would be the time I laughed and told Leslie she was crazy. He determined that there were only two major problems with the house, the roof, which has some pretty serious fire damage in the attic, (but the fire took place over 30 years ago so we shouldn't worry about it), and the foundation which is sinking causing the floors in the house to warp. So just the roof and the foundation, everything else in between seems to be OK except for what you would expect from a house built in the 1920's. Like the fact that in some places you can see into the crawl space, and most of the windows are stuck, another sign of a sinking foundation along with doors not wanting to close, the electrical hasn't been updated since the 70's and most of it is spliced together, we'll make sure to go heavy on the heat and smoke detectors, it kinda smells like mice and mold, but we can still get high speed Internet and dishtv. The dishwasher works and the toilet flushes. Hopefully the septic tank was designed to support a family of 7 or we're really going to be in trouble. The good news is that it is only going to be temporary. We've decided that it would be more cost effective to live in it while we build a new house and then bulldoze the thing. Somebody send a video to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. I'll start working on the sob story.