OT - What would you do?

[sillygirl]

My husband and I live in a condo with our two dogs. We knew we were going to start a family soon, so we have been trying to sell it for over a year and a half. We had some problems with the dogs killing the grass and the HOA billed us for new sod, so we were wanting to get a house with a backyard. We have now come up with a solution to the grass problem, and were thinking about taking the condo off the market. My husband just graduated from college and will be getting a new job, we have a new baby on the way, so we thought it might be best to wait until we knew what our financial situation was going to be before buying a new house. We hadn't had any showings in about a month and had decided to take it off the market last week, but I forgot to call our realtor and tell her. Then we had a showing on Sunday.


I just heard from my realtor that this was someone's second showing (they had looked at it about a month ago) and they are interested. The situation is that a guy is looking at it for his mother. I'm not sure where his mother lives, but she has not yet seen it. He likes our unit better than any of the others in the neighborhood (and he lives in the neighborhood) but he said he know has to figure out "if and when" his mom wants to do something. He already said that she wouldn't be able to close until the end of April or beginning of May.


If they make an offer we would definitley consider it, but we don't want to leave the house on the market until April just to have them say no "no thanks." My agent doesn't want to pressure them by saying we are thinking about just staying because she thinks they have been flakey enough and may back out of the whole thing. At this point, it would be nice to sell it (and we are okay with the April/May closing as long as we don't have to leave it on the market until then) but we are okay with staying too. We are tired of having to keep it clean and never knowing when we may have a showing. I'm not due until July so May gives us plenty of time to get the baby's room ready. We are so tired of waiting in limbo.


On the other hand, since we have had it on the market for so long already, we are afraid that if we take it off and then really do have to move for some reason, we would be waiting for another year and a half or possibly more. In some ways I would just like to sell it and wash my hands of the whole mess. But, without really knowing what we can afford, I don't want to buy a house that gets us in over our heads or be too conservative and buy a "fixer-upper" that we may decide a couple of years down the road we want to sell for a nicer place since we can really afford more than we thought.


If you have made it this far through my saga, what would you do in this situation? Would you just take it of the market and say forget it? Would you leave it up in hopes that these people buy it and if not, take it off then? Would you keep trying to sell it, even with the baby coming? Life is so unpredictable and there are so many variables in this situation. I keep going back and forth on what to do. I was sure taking it off was the right answer until this showing happened and now I don't know what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

[sillygirl]

I just wanted to add that it is a two bedroom, so we do have room for the baby. The problem is we do not have any storage space so we will have to rent an extra storage unitl to store the guest bedroom furniture to set up the baby's room. We would like more space, but it is currently livable.