The Ups and Downs of Life

Not much has been happening since my last post. We've been busy delivering phone books (at least Dave has, I've been at home bagging them and babysitting.) Last week Dave applied for a team leader position. He went in for an interview at the beginning of this week, and should know soon if he got the job. He's pretty worried he got his hopes up, but I know things will work out.
I contacted the Idaho Attorney Generals Office about our situation with our house, because I'm the only one who complained about this company, they're not going to pursue the issue. I got an E-mail from the gentleman at the Utah Attorney Generals Office whom I've been corresponding with, he told me that he's got the Attorneys looking things over and will be contacting me in a week at most.
It makes me sad with the whole situation because that's the only thing really that is not letting us get a loan to purchase Grandma's house. I'm afraid that I'm soooo out of luck on it, the Estate Sale is tomorrow and they've listed the house. Oh well, I guess it wasn't in the cards for me. :( Because of doing the phone books and babysitting, I've been super exhausted so I sleep a lot. I'm sad to report that I'm gaining weight again and want to get to doing something about it.
Because I haven't been making much off babysitting, I have upped my prices. It's all based on ages, but I think it's all reasonable. Charlie's eye is improving incredibly, I'm still not sure if he'll ever be able to see out of it, but now you can see the pupil, and the color of the eye rather than just a grey cloudy mist.
Well, that's about it for now. I will let you all know how Dave's possible promotion went, and tell you what we hear about the house as soon as we find out ourselves.

Update On Our House Situation

So I talked to my lawyer today about the situation with my house. I was told that they want addresses to the Residential Resolve here in Idaho and to Dawnridge Properties in Ut. She also wants a brief summary of when we were contacted and how, when we signed the documents and when we were told we couldn't be helped. I'm to fax all that to her on Monday and she'll fashion a letter basically demanding they sign our deed back over to us within 5 days.
Before they called, I got a call from an investigator with the Utah Attourney General's office. I explained to him my situation and that I believed that it was linked to their case in Ut because it was the same company. He asked me for a DETAILED e-mail and any documentation I feel would be helpful. Once he gets my E-mail, he'll look over things and decide if he's got a federal case on his hands. I hate to get the woman who worked with us in trouble but there's no telling exactly how involved in this scam she is.
Dave pointed out something that I'll have to ask about also, if it becomes a federal investigation, would that take our house out of foreclosure? We've got a lot of work cut out for us this weekend, and I'm going to start by talking about our situation with Dave on our way to Jerome tomorrow. We're only taking a day trip up there for Father's Day and will have all day Sunday to get things together. I've got a folder that I'm placeing all my paperwork and information in, which is also in a binder that will not leave me until this is settled.
I think I'm going to give up on trying to get Grandma's house. I think it was a lost cause since it seems like very few people believe I could get it. Right now I'm going to focus on our situation, and if we can keep the house for a bit longer while it's under investigation, we'll work on things to up the value on it so when we do get an oppertunity to sell it, we can sell it for higher than what we owe. That's about it for now, I will keep you guys posted more on what happens.

A Very Dark Storm On Our Horizon

Ok, so we spoke with a Realtor yesterday about selling our house. He is an old High School buddy of Mom's, and seems pretty trustworthy. Anyway, he said, as is, we could very easily list our house for 98K, and when he was done talking with us, he went to the title companies to find out for sure how much is owed on the property. Not even 30 minutes later, I got a call from him saying that he had some news for us that puzzled him. He met us back at the house, and told us that we had actually signed over the deed to somebody else for $10. I was FLOORED! Come to find out, what had happened was back in Dec, when we had somebody trying to help us save the house, she had us meet her at the bank just before it closed, and we signed papers saying that she was beneficiary, to be able to work with our mortgage company on our behalf. She told us this would be temporary, that we were not signing our property to her and what not. We also found out that she had a trust set up in our name.
The Realtor said that if we knew of it, we would have seen paperwork on it. Instead of this being temporary, they own the house, we're stuck with the mortgage, and it's theirs until the day Dave dies. I've contacted the woman who scammed us, and she returned my call while I was asleep so first thing Monday, I will be on the phone with her and my attorneys to resolve this. If she won't sign the deed over to us, I will either ask her to pay off the loan with cash left over for us to get another place, or take legal action. I have found out that we're not the only ones this happened to with this particular company, and I am definitely not going to refer them to anyone else. I will keep you updated as things progress/regress.

Piper, Kahn, Angel, Snickers, Bahgeera and Charlie

So the kittens are about 4 weeks old now. Monday they had their first vet visit compliments of Heather. Late last week I noticed that Charlie's right eye was getting infected and gross.
I was going to contact the Humane Society for help at taking him to see exactly what was going on, but Heather offered to pay for it since she owes me money. They examined his eye, said it was VERY infected and that I needed to try to keep it open as much as possible and put antibiotics in it 4 times a day. He now knows what is going to happen when I pick him up and take him out of the room, and puts up a fight. If the infection doesn't clear up and his eye ruptures, he'll either need the eye removed, or worse, euthanasia. I told people that it would add character to have a one eyed cat, but if it's more humane to put him down, we will.
Other than that and a few colds, they're doing great. As I sit here, they've all discovered my toes and find it fun to attack them. Angel and Kahn both seem very close to each other and I'm glad they're going to the same home. I look forward to finding homes for all of them, though they will be missed. That's pretty much it on the cat scene, the other 3, Luna, Willow and Jeriko are all seeming to be better and loving being able to venture outside again.

A Very Close Encounter

So Dave's brother Jacob sent us a VERY disturbing text early Saturday evening. We were buying dog food, and I looked at Dave's phone to see the text said that my 2yr. old nephew Matthew, came face to face with a 2ft. snake, and a stray cat intervened, came between my nephew and the snake. We thought nothing much of it, thought maybe it was a blow snake or something. Then came the pictures of the snake. At first, it looked like a corn snake with the way the light was shining on it. At that point, I was on the phone with my brother in law, they said the snake was coiled and ready to strike just before the cat startled it. He also said that his little brother cut the tail off the snake trying to kill it.
Once I saw the 2nd and 3rd pictures, I knew immediately how lucky Matthew really was. He had come face to face with a 2ft. Diamondback Rattlesnake. Knowing how small he is, and how far away from a hospital they lived, I knew that if that snake had bit him, he wouldn't survive it. They live between Twin Falls and Jerome, the Hospital in Twin is about 15-20 minutes at least through town, possibly longer depending on lights and traffic. The hospital in Jerome is just as far away, so he wouldn't have stood a chance. I'm happy to know that somebody upstairs was watching out for him, I don't think I could have stood that kind of a loss, especially that soon after my grandma passing.