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[02 May 2008|11:21pm] |
What happened: last summer, we listed our school building on eBay. We were asking for cash as we didn't want to finance. Several people came to see the school and made various offers, none of which was quite right. The present tenants became very excited, came to see the school, said they reallyreally wanted it please please please and they could pay today ... well, tomorrow ... well, no, but next week....
They sounded like they would be a good fit for the town, and although several people came along subsequently with offers of cash right now, we felt it would be unkind to accept any of them after having let these people become so excited and do so much work trying to get the money together. However, winter was coming on, and we needed to protect ourselves against leaving the school untenanted through sub-zero temps, so we made up a lease-to-purchase agreement to cover us through the winter. They were delighted, signed it, and moved right in.
Discussion of how the money would be arriving any day now stopped immediately. On inquiry, it turned out they thought the lease agreement meant they had until spring to come up with the money. Which of course it did, but that hadn't been our verbal agreement. Still, there it was, so we waited to see what they would do in the spring. And we considered what we would do if they did or didn't pay.
It came to us that we'd rather they didn't. And now they say they can't. They want us to finance, which we said right along we wouldn't do. So we've told them no, but they still have till the end of the month to come up with the rest of the purchase price; or they're welcome to remain at the same rent for another year, since it'll be that long till we can move back.
They were all intent on having an answer from us by 2 May, but they don't seem to be in such a hurry to let us know what they'll be doing. I find I don't really care so much anymore. We'll just deal with whatever happens in whatever way seems appropriate at the time. There would be advantages to any decision they could make (well, unless they decide to burn the place down). We'll just see.
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