Well, they counter-offered and we accepted their counter-offer, so we now have a contract. It all seems rather hard to believe. Now we need to get copies of the well report and perc & mantle reports to take a look at those… although I’m sure they’ll be fine. At this point we don’t know when escrow will close, as the seller has to wait for PG&E to run power up the road before we close. The seller also has to do some work on the road, but that shouldn’t be nearly the sticking point as the power issue. Like any good monopoly, PG&E gives no time estimates and makes no promises. *sigh* But at least waiting in escrow doesn’t cost us anything (other than mental stress, I suppose), and it still locks up the property for us. It also gives us more time to figure what exactly we’re going to do with the land once it is ours. (Although closing on land is rather anti-climatic - it isn’t like you get keys and can start moving in or anything! Maybe we’ll go pitch a tent there and spend the night after it closes. Then again, it may not close until sometime this winter, in which case I think I’ll pass on that idea!)

I think we need to plan another trip back up there before too long so we can go out and stare at the property for awhile. When we were looking at it before I was thinking of it far more in terms of “ok, this will work” rather than, “this will be ours!” and I think I’d like to spend some time thinking about it in this new light. But then again, it could still fall through for some reason, so maybe this should wait…