Selling our House

Well I have a lot to touch on since my last post.  I am currently about 22 weeks pregnant.  We have also made a lot of pretty big decisions.  It's no secret that we have wanted to move out of our current neighborhood for a while and our last straw was finding out that Kaitlyn did not get accepted into any of our CMS lottery options.  We did get accepted into one Charter school, but it is all the way uptown and I was just not willing to drive that far 2x a day.  Plus I wasn't even that happy about that school anyway.  So we decided to put our house on the market. It was extremely stressful and so much work getting our house ready to put on the market.  We packed away so many toys and most all the clutter we could manage and packed it all up into our garage so that the house looked presentable.  We were really excited b/c we got a cash offer within the first 4 days of it being listed.  Unfortunately it turned out be a disaster and I regret ever accepting it.  It was by an investment company and they had never even seen the house in person.  Just the online photos.  They refused to give any due diligence money so we just sat in limbo waiting for the due diligence to run out so we could start packing and really start moving.  Well right before our due diligence was set to expire, the broker contacted us and said that her client wanted to extend it another week.  We agreed but reluctantly b/c they still had not even bothered to schedule an inspection.  Our realtor was getting worried about it and said that she didn't think they were serious enough and we should terminate.  Well turns out we didn't even have to terminate, the broker finally contacts me after wasting about a month of our time off the market and tells me the client needed to withdraw b/c he was having a lot of issues with his inspectors and would not be able to close on the deal.  We were pretty mad.  So we go back on active status and now since we are no longer showing as a new listing all the showings have dwindled tremendously.  The first week we were active we had so many showings it was crazy.  Now we are lucky to have 1-2 a week.  All feedback has been really positive except for the small yard, but nothing we can do about that.  We were the second choice for one client, so that sucks, but at least we know people like our house.  We are one of the lowest priced in our community as well so we had hoped that would help.  Back when we thought we had sold our house we also put in an offer to build a new house with True homes off Regent Pkwy.  We really wanted Fort Mill, but everything was so expensive and really not what we wanted.  So we are building.  It is a great location but in Indian Land.  But we are ok with that.  The schools are not up to Fort Mill Standards, but WAY better that most CMS schools and especially our neighborhood school that Kaitlyn would have been going to.  They are uniform though which I am not happy about.  So anyway, we have the stress of trying to build a new house, and then finding out that we actually did not sell ours and we are already under contract.  We really need to sell our house to get the money we have invested into it, but if we cannot sell by summer, we plan on just renting it out. I just don't know how we will come up with our down payment for the new house!  So that sums up most of the craziness going on right now.  Keeping a show ready house has been so frustrating.  It is really sad waking up every day cleaning the house and then realizing it was all for nothing.  The showings are pretty horrible as well.  I usually have to interrupt naps, stop whatever I'm doing and clean like a crazy person and then just wander around town for hours until it is time for me to come back home and then find out it was all for nothing.  I just feel like our lives are in limbo right now.  We can rarely even plan dinners anymore b/c I will start preparing a dinner and then all the sudden we have to leave and I have to just put it in the fridge.  But I guess it could be worse.  We could be trying to sell once our new baby has already arrived.  I think at that point I really would be crazy!