We have been in a short sale for almost 5 months and about a week ago the sellers asked for an extension to have time to remove the remaining furniture items from the home.  We said no and offered to help them move the few items along with their realtor but they refused many many offers and insist on doing it themselves and want to be at closing.  The story is that he is out of the country illegally and needs to finish a job he is on because he cannot simply come back to move/close and go back to finish his work because of the expired visa.  They want a 30 day extension and we are all waiting for the bank (BOA) to answer.  I know this is very odd its not like they haven't known they would need to get the rest of their items out for months however we really want the house and pray that they are being honest.  Plus we figure he will somewhat hury to get back because if he gets caught he goes to jail and gets deported.   We have already done the inspection, appraisal, survey, HOA app fee, and locked in our rate ... we hate to lose all the money we have put into it now for one more month.  So upset but am extremely worried about what the bank will do or say - will they take into account all that we have done?  Is there hope that they will extend it??  This would be the 1st extension since we got bank approval.