House hunting in the weeds

7 Houses. That’s how many separate properties we have made offers on over the last 18 months. How many of those houses did we get? None. We are back offering on the little cabin in the woods. Again. Third time. 4th Realtor.  New price. Bank owned. Let me sum it up – we are offering [...]

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Rejection

He who owns Potential House called last night and rejected our offer.  Not even a counter offer was offered.  He looked at our ridiculously low offer and said, “We can’t afford to take a loss right now.”  Who can afford to take a loss ever?  However.  They are smoking crack to think that they will [...]

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Counter Offer.

We got a counter offer already. After saying, “Hey, that was quick,” we got to the details. Strangely, it was unlike a counter offer in the sense that the price they proposed was they price they listed originally. We said, “close in 90 days. “They countered, “close in 30 days,” (which is pretty standard). It’s [...]

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Opinions please

I LOVE the house I live in now.  Love it to the point that I never want to move. However.  (I bet you saw that however from a mile off…) However, the schools here stick out loud.  Really.  REALLY. The house across the street from the church is for sale.  It’s in a FABULOUS school [...]

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