landlord is selling our house

my husband is a mean mean spoilsport

He made me think hed be fine moving closer to work again...then when he was home said no way...so we have options, but I only like 2

we can try to buy this house and get the price down, which may mean waiting and seeing if no one else buys and he has to lower the price, which is risky in itself...

otherwise we rent elsewhere in this area...dh thinks I am just not trying hard enough...but due to moving so much lately and now moving AGAIN, we will have a black mark against us so not likely to pass checks, so would have to go through current, useless EA (whos miffed I want landlords info).

Or, we move in with the in-laws again...only this time Im not pregnant (ie being stuck in one room with a baby= nightmare) and we have a ton of stuff that would have to go into storage while we regroup for an unknown length of time.

last but not least, and looking better by the minute to me...we ditch the whole thing and move to the US.  DH would want somewhere he can get an IT/games industry job, so that means someplace like CA, or chicago...I dont want to live in Chicago (no offense to anyone from Chicago, I just know if we went back to the US it would have to be somewhere warm for me, and big big cities scare me  ), even though wed be in the middle between ds and my parents...but that would hopefully be moot, as back in the US Id try for custody of my ds. CA leaves me with loads of questions...but it seems would be the best fit for us. This is probably what we'd end up doing after moving in with the in-laws, save and save and save until we could move to the US..and of course DH would need his visa

So, me being the type that needs to know some sort of plans are being made, Im freaking out I hate that our future is completely up in the air, and it makes me feel very unstable

We had our landlords tell us he was selling after we had only been in our place for 7 months (there was a 9 month break clause in the contract so it gave us two months).  The worse part was that my wife had just given birth 2 months before so we had enough going on with a new baby, no time to look for a new place & move!  I'm really bitter against our landlords for that, especially since they were a couple with two young kids of their own and knew Karen was pregnant when we moved in, you'd think they would appreciate our situation.  I hope Karma gets them back at some point.

Things did end well though, it motivated us to buy a place and we've benefited from an increase in prices since then.  Also, owning our own place meant we could decorate our son's room any way we wanted.  We've also got better friends in our new neighborhood, partially because we know we have a long-term commitment to the area.

Hopefully it works out for you as well.  It is very likely to be a painful few months, especially since you don't know where you'll end up, but by the end of it you'll be settled somewhere nice and comfortable (by saving to buy your own home here or living in sunny California!).  This is a good "opportunity" to think about where you really want to be for the next phase of your life and take action on it instead of staying in the status quo because it is easier.

That's the optimist's take on it which is much easier since we've made it through our stressful time.  Best of luck!