i knew this would happen...

I got a text message from my realtor yesterday:
"the folks [buyers] are getting nervous, per their realtor. i told her we would check with the bank again on monday"
first of all, i am checking with the bank ALLOFTHETIME!!!! i don't know what more i can do. they are a bunch of incompetent imbeciles, and there just isn't much i can do about that.
secondly, when we found out that these buyers wanted to put an offer in on the house, we were very up-front with them. we told them we were going to do a short sale, and we told them it would take longer to get it closed than a standard sale. much longer. i told my realtor to tell them at least 90 days. i hope he told them that, and didn't fudge it a little to make it sound better. i am going to assume he was honest with them and with me. we offered to sign a short term lease on the house so that they could go ahead and move in. i don't think their realtor ever went to them with that offer...she didn't think it was a good idea. she was probably right, but we were willing to assume the risk just to keep them from backing out.
third, they offered $205,000. we were asking $230,000. if the bank accepts their offer, they will be getting a steal! seriously, a STEAL!

i guess i'm just frustrated, because they have barely even given it 30 days, and they are already getting "nervous". i just know they are going to back out, and then we are going to be at square one, and facing a foreclosure. i cant imagine what that will do to my husbands credit. i checked it the other day...it has dropped over 200 points in 5 months. i guess it cant get much worse, huh? on a side note...i think its funny how it takes at least 6 months for good things to show on your credit, but bad things show up immediately!! i guess that's another gripe for another day!