You are correct—you are committed now.
And they know that, but they are in a squeeze as well.
You can look at it this way—your new buyers, due to the market, are paying $50,000 over your asking price for the house, and you are paying an extra $6,000 for your new one.
You are still in the plus column.
Even if you paid the new owners an above market rent for the month of September as an incentive to let you stay, you are still way ahead.
You will be happy in your new home soon.
You did the right thing by taking charge and sprucing up the place—it netted you a solid sale and an extra 50G’s.
And your daughter should get a bonus for handling the curmudgeon—LOL!
Lol curmudgeon. Not the first name that comes to my mind, but we’ll go with that lol.
She’s going to get her floors redone when all is settled. She has been living with this horrible deep blue industrial carpet for years because they’ve been investing in switching the farm from pigs to sheep. It’s been very difficult on them financially. The old carpet was installed when the house was built - about 50 years ago. The old floors in the kitchen are just as bad. It’s all coming out and nice new flooring installed in the fall, Lord willing.