What else can go wrong?

Is it just me, or is there a conspiracy between major banks and the government to put me out of business?  Last month I wrote a cancellation for an accepted offer on a short sale waiting lender approval.  After one year it never came.  I have other offers on short sales and after jumping through every imaginable hoop and more, still no answer.  I have no problem finding buyers.  I have no problem finding homes.  I have no problem getting accepted offers.  I have all the problems in this world and more closing.

Foreclosures are no better.  For the past year banks and appraisers are finding ways of saying no.  Appraisers saying, there is chipped paint, guess where it is, I get $100 for every trip back to the property until you get it right.  And if nothing else will kill the deal, the lender will come back and demand new carpeting before the closing.  Or some other stupid excuse that didn't show up in any report or appraisal.  It's like the lender is now a licensed inspector, with out ever viewing the property.

I have a few offers accepted on foreclosed homes.  Buyers want to take advantage of the incentives offered for down payment assistance and low interest remodeling loans from the government.  But, there is a battle between the government and the banks.  The government wants to control the deal, thinking they can change the closing date, or else there will be no funds.  Once the seller, the bank, hears the government wants to control things, they say no to any extension and kill the deal.

It's like dealing with a couple of little kids, fighting over a toy on the play ground.  They have no idea what is around them.  They have no idea they just wasted hundreds of hours of time spent by a amount of people to put this deal together.  And they just dashed the hopes and dreams of the buyers.  Nice job banks.  Nice job government.  If wasting time and money and disappointing people is what you want to achieve, you are doing a wonderful job.  Wonderful.