So the big let down has come.  

They have no idea when the issues on the seller side is going to be resolved.  There was talk about the wife's probate - which didn't concern me that much - but the thing about the heirs.  That was quite concerning.  There are heirs that are involved with this that have to sign off on all of this - and not just my 12 acres but also the 12 acres whoever else was buying across the street.  

What is the issue with me? I was informed today is the last day of the extra 21 days and if I don't bail out, I lose the earnest money. It's entirely  up to me, I was informed, to opt out and get my money back or continue one with it - but if it doesn't go through,  I lose that money.  It's $600 plus gone for nothing.  It didn't take me long to decide to opt out and start a new contract with the seller. If he wants to, fine, if he doesn't, well I just wasted a lot of time with this. A lot of time.  And a lot of daydreaming, looking the property over and figuring out how I would set it up. 

But, I'm not losing $600 for nothing.  

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And all of that is now cancelled. After all of that, they came back and said why don't we just extend the option period another 30 days?  I mean, why didn't they just say that in the first place? The seller's agent has gone through some ordeal with the seller.  Elderly was the attribution attributed to this fellow, today I find out he's 84 years old.  People get up there in years and get set in their ways pretty good.  The seller won't do anything unless his realtor/agent comes to his house.  So apparently that's where we're at and I'm content - for now - to wait this thing out.  I won't be content forever, especially considering I found a couple of other properties that would fit the bill that have recently come on the market.

Yes, I started looking again after I heard all of this today.  

Oh, well my realtor told me that the seller's realtor has gone through quite a bit of pains to try and get this deal done with the seller and his insistence the realtor come over to his house anytime anything needs to be done.  Losing a buyer isn't exactly on his wish list.  I do believe if this property came on the MLS and open to anyone it would probably sell pretty quick.  Well I dunno lol. Not with all of this stuff going on with it and the endless waiting game.  Stuff that should have been done long ago is now at a standstill and no guarantees that it will be rectified - meaning no property for me, at least not this one.  

So, the in-limbo game goes on - indefinitely.  Nahh, not indefinitely, I'll move on if I have to.  It kind of makes me wonder if this also isn't the right place to build. Or, is it worth the wait and sit it out.  
I dunno, but it's time for bed, early rise for Brownsville run. 

 2 trips out to the property, replete with a short video while trekking through it with the Great Dane.  The purpose wasn't really to hike through it, but the first time I did I couldn't find the info I was looking for. Namely, the name of the power company serving the area.  There was a small badge on one of the poles that said "RAE COOP".  You look that up? You'll get zero results.  You'll get different power companies but none of them are the correct one - I know because I called all of them. 

I then called the county and they thought it should be SWEPCO - well I had already tried SWEPCO so I called them again. This time, the lady on the phone said she was looking at map and it definitely is not their territory.  

I made a second trip out to the property and drove up and down the street looking at the telephone poles - the only one that had anything on it was the aforementioned company.  I also went to the plant up the street - they are working off of some other power company, they had power run across the Interstate.  

So, we haven't found anything out.  I remembered a company that I hadn't yet called - it appeared well out of their territory, it's amazing how many power companies serve the east Texas area. They looked up the address of the little house 250 feet away and said, yup, that's us.  Finally!  

Upshur Power company to be precise, clear over in Tyler.  The lines look pretty small, but then I got home and looked at the lines serving all the houses on our street and the next street down - they're the same size and houses use more power than RV's so I'm at least fairly confident that there should be enough to service an RV park. Otherwise, I'm going to be finding out how much it costs to run from the plant up the street - they've got huge lines running to that thing.  

The point is there IS power there - 2 different companies apparently and if worse comes to worst, the power IS running, just it's about 600 feet away.  That could be costly running power poles that far, I hope it doesn't come to that. The water company name and phone number was much easier to find: it's listed right on the stakes they have all over the place.  I can already tell you it's going to cost a few thousand dollars to get them to run that line to m property - it is what it is.  

I can't say this is "behind me" per se, just basic information that has been eating at me for a while, I was determined to find out who is what today.  The dog walk was going down a lane - you can't tell it's a lane tho unless you look up at the skyline and see where the tall trees are. It's filled up with small trees and underbrush to the point that it's a bid - ridiculous but that's nature.  2 giant lanes are maintained, someone must bring a bush hog through there occasionally, that's the hunter with his stand sitting in the middle of all of that cleared out stuff. It's what I go by to see how the rest of it will look when it's all cleared out.

Oh, the real reason I went there was to see if the surveyors were out there, nope, no sign of them.  

Anyway, I was just sent another Brownsville run for tomorrow. It is getting late in the day, I didn't think she was going to send me anything.  But I'll definitely take it and it's second run so I don't have to get up at 3:15 am to get over there.  More like 5:30 am rise which is still quite early but much better than this 3 am nonsense.  I was really afraid - considering I'll be starting with fresh 70 hour reset - that I was going to get sent on a long run. Just don't want any right now.  In fact, I would have been okay with an Oklahoma run but this run is quite fine. Both of those runs take 2 days - brownsville is just 2 full days but of course the pay is superb. 

With that, I have a 4 and a 6 year old asking for music videos on the computer so I will help them out - a little, lol.