Running from stress

I'm seriously trying to just look the other way, not dwell too much, and not get myself so nervous that my daily activities become nearly impossible to focus on. Cause I do this whenever we have a big 'thing' to deal with, good or bad.

So the 90 day window to sell our house was about to run out. We have had decent activity, have been 'runners up' too many times, had a couple offers, but no deals. We were proactive and decided that we could a) ask the sellers of the other house for an extension, or b) move forward w/ a cash offer, taking on the risk of not having sold our home, but asking if they would then take less than our original bid. We decided to do b because 1) they could easily say no to a, or ask for more money to agree to a, and 2) because some positives come out of negotiating a better deal and holding both homes for a short period of time...a lot of that being less packing and moving stress. They agreed to b, and we negotiated a better deal.

Now, the pressure is on to sell our house. Lo and behold, a week later, someone (let's call them The Family) that had made a previous low-ball joke of an offer came back with a more reasonable offer. They sold their home and they are ready to buy. Long and agonizing story short, we are finally about 8K apart and it looks good - with one exception, which I just learned about today: the inspection on The Family's home might be problematic, and their deal might fall through, which might make any deal we'd strike with The Family fall through - or drag on .Either way, we'd be back to the possibility of holding 2 mortgages with no guarantee of when we'd close the deal with The Family, and with Winter approaching. We haven't had a showing in 2 weeks and counting, and the 'buying season' is coming to a close.

So, needless to say, I'm kinda scared - and upset - because we are sooo close to having this all work out so well. Stupid inspections. That's all for now. I'll keep you posted.