Huey B, the investor, came out with a Sammy Davis Jr. lookalike sidekick (a Mexican version of one anyway) and Ron, and the house is now officially in escrow. He was familiar with this house and its layout. Apparently, he set one of these models up on some other property he invested in. He definitely wants the place and was talking about plans to split it into 5 parcels, each being 2-acre lots. (poor, poor next door) It looks promising as far as getting enough money to move on. He and the realtor pointed out again how illegal it is for the bank to do what they’re doing to us by refusing to give us information, and how the bank knows they’re in the wrong (God only knows what paperwork they’ve altered), but hey, it’s Tom and Jodi so it’s ok. It’s ok to fuck us over. No problem. God will protect them. Anyway, the investor’s going to sic his lawyer on the bank to get some numbers, bogus or not. He’s going on a trip to Chicago and will be back to make the final negotiations with us on the 26th or 27th. He has agreed to allow us to stay here rent-free for a month after we strike a deal, so that’d put us out of here by June 10th at the latest. Could be sooner.

A few hours later, Huey called back to say that he thinks we owe $91,000, but Tom thinks it’s more and is worried he’s going to get his hopes up for a price that’s too low. We wonder how high he’s willing to go, but felt it wasn’t a good time to ask. All we did was stress to him that we couldn’t be put in a position where we ended up owing him money we don’t have, and he said we wouldn’t. If he knows what’s good for him, he’ll keep his word, because if he doesn’t, he’s not receiving a dime.

I expect the next few months to be quite hectic. The next step is to plan when and how to sell off the furniture. We may even do one more swap meet before we do the moving sale. We still may have to put up with people coming to see the house, too. Depends on how soon they list it. We also have to bid on the land we want and plan the move – how we’re gonna get there and all that. I’m not looking forward to the cold and snow, but I think it’ll be a worthy trade-off for the trees, privacy and fewer people hanging out and about.

If worse came to absolute worse and the investor won’t give us enough to move on, we’ll let the bank take the house when they plan to on June 2nd and we’ll gut the place of its appliances and whatever else. Rip the ceiling fans out, swipe all the blinds, and just leave the assholes with a shell of a house. Light fixtures, faceplates, you name it. It’d be work on our part and we hope it doesn’t come down to that (I’m almost positive it won’t), but will be worth it to us if it does come down to it. Like I said, I don’t think it will. This investor’s been very cooperative, and as people who give what we get, so have we. We’ll leave it clean and fully loaded as long as we don’t get screwed. Ron was saying how he and Mandy have realtor classes periodically and how they warn them about predators like Bank of America and Wells Fargo all the time. He and Mandy aren’t getting any money out of this, but they’re going to be the ones to list the houses once they’re all here and assembled.

I almost slipped again when he was mentioning how we’re getting screwed over and said, “Welcome to the story of our lives.” And then again when he said how unbelievable it all was with, “Hey this is nothing compared to being set up and thrown in jail.”