Potential Landlord Not Responding

Hi! I’m not entirely sure if this is the correct subreddit for this question, but I’m going to give it a shot. My SO and I are planning on moving back home in October and my brothers landlord happened to have a house that is going to be available for rent. My brother told her that I would be coming up the weekend of July 8th with my SO and we would be available to view the house. He gave her my contact info and she didn’t reach out until around 7/12 when we were already back home from visiting (4 1/2 hour drive). When she reached out, I luckily had to go back home the following week on 7/18 for an appointment. I was able to meet both her and her husband to view the house and take a video to send to my boyfriend who was working the weekend. They didn’t have a number for rent yet or security deposit and I suggested we set up a phone call the following week after they talked it over so we could work out the details and they could “meet” my SO over the phone. I also told them I would talk things over with my SO once I was back with him to see how he felt about the space and property.

I messaged on Thursday, July 20th and let her know we were definitely interested and thanked them both for taking the time to show me the house. She said “maybe next week sometime” we could have a phone call to discuss renting information and what not. A week goes by where I didn’t hear from her so I send her a text on July 27th saying that we were free at 6pm that night to chat if they had already talked everything over. She responded and said “(husband) said we can talk this evening. He knows what he wants as far as rent goes and still wants to write up a contract” I said “perfect, thanks for letting us know!”

7pm rolls around, an hour after we agreed to talk, and she messages saying that she was so sorry and they had family who stopped over and asked if we could call, tomorrow (Friday). We had friends coming in from out of town that day so I told her that Saturday would work best for us, if possible. She responded with “we will try Saturday, I have family coming over as well tomorrow. We have no one else looking at it so it will be fine. I’ll text you Saturday”.

Saturday rolls around, no response. SO and I are waiting around all afternoon so I finally texted her at 6pm and said “you and (husband) still okay to chat tonight? 😊”. STILL no response.

I don’t want to be pushy but I also kinda would like to know what we’re doing. They specifically told my brother they were holding it for my SO and I so I’m not worried about any other potential renters. But we have 2 months to try and figure out living arrangements / moving arrangements / new jobs. Luckily our back up plan is to rent from my sister if we can’t get this place but I can’t know last minute because sister has to get her property situated for us to even move into. I feel like everything is on hold and I really wish they would just tell us what the deal is and what they’re expecting. That way we can set money aside and plan accordingly. I don’t even really care for contract information. I totally understand if that’s not written up yet, we just want a figure as to what rent and security deposit is.

Does anyone have any advice as to what I should do? Would you even reach out to her again? If so, how would you respond? I’m not great at speaking professionally so I don’t want to respond and come off as a bitch or pushy.

Thanks much!
Bunniii 🖤