Neil and I went to New Orleans in January for a "second look" to decide if New Orleans could be our new home.I absolutely loved it! We both decided this would be the best place for Neil to rank first for his residency. Almost immediately we started looking at houses and planning where to settle down.
From the start we wanted to live in "uptown", which is about 5-10 minutes from anything and everything you would want to do in the Crescent City. Nola is a very tricky place to look for houses. For instance, one street might have million dollar homes, and the next street looks like a ghetto. This makes looking for a house kind of difficult. We would look online at listings and choose almost twenty houses we liked, but only two would be in a good area of town. After a few disappointments we found a great house that we both loved and could get in our price range.
Around the middle of March, we placed an offer on this house and it went under contract. Two weeks later the inspection was done, seller agreed to fix everything, and we were well on our way to closing on the house.
About a week ago the seller contacted us to tell us the city would not let him sell the house as a townhome. The problem is that the firewall that separates the house does not extent onto the front porch. He needed to have an engineer and architect write a letter to the city to state that the firewall complies with the current code.
After much discussion it looked like everything would work out. Both architect and engineer agreed the firewall was okay. Well...apparently the city did not agree. The seller sent us a letter yesterday through email stating he is backing out of the sale....which is a HUGE no no.
So here we are, a month away from moving and we don't have a place to live. We are heading to Nola today to try to find some kind of rental house or apartment until this gets straightened out or we find a new house.
Either way, the seller violated the contract we had and there is a potential lawsuit brewing. Which is drama we really don't want or need right now.
Hopefully it will all work out!
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