Ok, Ok, So I Live Next to a Registered Sex Offender

I am selling my house and it is under contract. It went under contract about 5 days after I listed it, a feat in and of itself. The buyers have done all their inspections and have made me jump through all the proverbial hoops and had me fix this and fix that. We are set to close on August 28th. I have also put a contract in on another house with PC, so we are doing back to back closings.

I get a call from my agent this morning asking me about the sex offender next door. Now I could have said, what sex offender, what are you talking about? At least that's what PC told me to say. I can't do that. Bad karma. So I explain the situation to her and she is on the other line with the buyer's agent, relaying the information to her. Apparently the buyer is "freaking out". I guess that is the one thing that the buyers did not check out before putting in the contract on my home, which is the same thing that happen to me. I checked out everything BUT that when I moved into the house.

I digress. Not to worry, I do know what happened with the guy. I already had asked about what happened after one of the neighbors put a flyer in my mailbox shortly after we moved in and I "freaked out". The guy was under the influence and felt up a 14 year old staying in the house while he lived in NJ. He was convicted of it and served 4 years in NJ and has to register for life. This happened years ago. He does not want to screw little children and is not a chester the molester. Well, I guess technically he was one. But for a 14 year old that looked a hell of alot older. I am certainly not saying what he did was right, as it was not.

I am just saying that I have lived next door for three years and have had no problem at all. I just feel safe and do not have any issues with it all. I am not afraid he will come get my kids or anything, anymore than I would be without him living there. He lives with my neighbors and is the brother of the woman that loves there. He works 6 days a week and is never there. I rarely have seen him in 3 years.

Hell, if I were the buyers I would be more concerned with the fact that my neighbors next door are Jahovah's Witnesses. Lord knows how they can be.

Needless to say, I am worried now that these people can walk away from the deal and I am shit out of luck. They would lose their $2K earnest money but I would be losing out on our new home.

So, I offered to call the sister of the guy, my neighbor, to see if she would allow me to give the buyers her number to talk to them and let them ask whatever questions they might have. I felt really uncomfortable calling my neighbor but I felt better after having talked to her about it. She let me give the buyers her number. We shall see now.