The FL House Saga Begins...

Ok so as you can see, our last post was in May, when our bid was accepted for the house in Florida. We were so excited. We were all ready to close on June 11th. Then, the saga began..... I haven't even blogged about it because it was too upsetting, and very confusing! Let's not forget that we are in Maryland right now, and the house is in Florida.

About a week before we went to closing, we had the water and electric turned on for inspection, among other things. We even had the cable guy scheduled to come the following week. We asked the water company to please contact our realtor so she could drive over to the house to make sure there were no leaks. First day, water company goes over to the house without calling our realtor, turns the water on, sees the meter running, shuts it off and leaves. We are all wondering what's going on because we hadn't got a call and it was getting late in the day. Ben calls and gets that story. He asks again to have them go back the next day and please call our realtor because she cleared her schedule just to do this. Next day, again no call. We find out that the water company was there, turned it on again, saw the meter running again (as expected, duh) and turned it off at the house. Or so he said. Our realtor goes over the next morning and finds the whole house flooded! Literally, water was running out the front door. We get the call a little after 10 AM. Ben calls me at work. I am livid! I'm about ready to scream. We had no idea what to do because it was a very strange situation: we had it under contract, but the bank still owned it since we didn't settle yet. So who takes care of this? Who's pocket does this come out of? Something needed to be done immediately....water damage in a Florida house....ummm...we need to get this dried out ASAP so mold doesn't grow!