Today, we bought our first home after months of searching and years of saving. It's directly in the path of Hurricane Irma and may be destroyed before we even get the chance to move in. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my husband and I were finally about to put our house on market because we have killed our savings on moving and two mortgages for the past couple of months. Then the pipes burst. Awesome. FML
Today, my wife and I are about to move across the country when the landlord for our new house called and said a water line busted and flooded the house. The movers are coming tomorrow. FML
Today, I was supposed to close on a house. Unfortunately, our lender decided that they couldn't finance us and denied us a loan, after 3 months of us digging up paperwork, saving money, and packing. Now we have to scramble to find a new place, while our insane landlady screams at us. FML
Today, our boiler broke. Yesterday, it was our fridge. The day before that, the deck collapsed, and a few weeks ago the dishwasher flooded the kitchen. This is after we spent a ton of money to have the house gutted due to a mold problem. We only bought the house a year ago, and have lived in it even less. We need to move. FML
Today, after saving for years, I was finally ready to buy a home. I found a decent place. I put in an offer. A hedge fund bought it 7 minutes later, for cash. FML
Today, we started building our dream house. Next to my parents-in-law. FML
Today, workers came to my house to fix residual moisture damage in my walls left behind by Hurricane Irma. Said workers then burst a water pipe and flooded my entire apartment in the time it took figure out how to turn it off. FML
Today, my mom sold our electronic stuff to pay for hurricane shutters. We live in Chicago. FML
Today, I'm still not living in the house I fought so hard to buy three months ago. As I was fixing a hole in the wall, I found black mold covering the back side of my drywall. On every wall. I can't afford to fix it. FML
Today, I bought my first house, blowing nearly all my savings on the deposit. I had left myself enough for just a couple of necessary bits of furniture. It turns out the previous owner completely stripped the house when he left, taking the oven and even the toilet with him, amongst other things. FML
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123765 18
it you have your receipt just take it back and get a refund if it doesnt look used
mekiswrite 21
at least insurance will cover the rebuild if it is destroyed
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Comments (23)
Ashley Nicole Marcin 1
It's a long shot, but you wouldn't happen to be from Colorado and have purchased it in a retirement community? Because that would be weird.
Luke16eirb7deneuwn1 20
The storm may just change its way... I mean it's definitely possible...
rosiemont07 13
YDI because you should know that several hurricanes pass through Florida
onceuponatime456 16
Hmmmmmm. No you didn't!
tamesenicole 27
We sometimes go YEARS without experiencing a hurricane. You don't live in Florida (unless you do) so stay out of it
Aaron Mount 6
I would have thought about where the location is before purchasing...
Marie Liska 2
OP here. Update: the house survived with minor damage. The electricity has yet to turn on with no word as to when we'll have power. Looks like move-in day will not be tomorrow.