Originally Posted by
BillyD
Sounds like an extraordinarily sweet scenario. Best wishes, I can only dream of being that lucky.
It’s been a year of hell to get to this point though.
We’ve lost a house we were under contract on. Had an offer not work out on one house two different times (long story), lost another house where the seller wanted to accept our offer but needed us to wait 3 months to close (our former realtor gave us really bad advice or we would have just waited).
We got to the point where we were looking in houses in other neighborhoods that were priced 50k over what we wanted to spend. I think perhaps it was fate, we got the house we always wanted but never thought it would be for sale.
This is the 7th or 8th house we have gone after. What’s crazy is that last spring, these houses were going for 40k less than they are now. But... with the expansion happening around here, I believe these prices are going to continue to hold or we would have waited.