My Heart is NOT impressed

We found a beautiful 2.5 acre lot on the west side with the mountains almost literally in our backyard and yesterday we wrote the earnest money check and were about to write up the contract when our agent tells us she's "waiting for an addendum" (Uh oh) An addendum before we even make an offer? Greaaat.
So we get the addendum and it is a doozy. A "no more deal tear up the check doozy." To summarize, we pay X for the land and X isn't cheap btw, but we pay X for the land and then we... drum roll... don't actually own what's underneath it. And even worse, the State can come and mine your property, put oil derricks and any and all other kind of oil infrastructure and you can't do a damn thing about it. And you don't get anything for it either. Not that that makes any difference but I am so so very bummed. See apparently there's gold in these there hills and oil and coal and other good stuff that the State wants even though you pay for the land. There's a plus when it comes to having a husband who has dealt in the oil industry for the last 30 years. And he found shady stuff like this. Turns out a petroleum company bought 21,000 acres over a decade ago in hopes of mining it for oil but since oil prices are down they haven't done anything with the land YET. And the document my husband found specially mentions the cross streets to the neighborhood we WERE looking in.

Crazy thing is that other people recently have bought lots in that neighborhood and there are homes already built and being lived in. So is the addendum new? Did the other people just read the addendum and not understand and signed their rights away? Because it is bad. Very bad. And I am bummed. Very bummed. It was the first time I got really excited about a house. Building one, that is. And saving pins on pinterest. So now I'm back to square one. The homes that are on the market are old, ugly and don't even have views. I'm just discouraged.

Someone Needs to Tell

the real estate market here to chill the F out. Things are selling before I can even get my husband to see them. And they aren't gorgeous things either. They aren't even nice things. They are blah things. How crazy is that? Blah things selling within 8 days on the market with 4 different offers. Seriously. The houses are not nice out here. They are either outdated and ugly or brand new and such a postage stamp size that you could lean out your bedroom window and shake hands with your neighbor. So... compromise must be the name of this stage in our life. We will not compromise on views and 3 car garage but apparently we aren't going to be buying anything we are proud of either. *sigh*

The leaves are beginning to change here and we may be going with our friends up into the mountains this weekend to see the leaves and to get family photos, which is a good thing because I'm getting my hair done (finally) tomorrow.

Bottom line: the scenery here is gorgeous but the houses certainly don't match.