Comments | shaannonnn: Welp. Never mind.

shaannonnn

Welp. Never mind.

Jul 23, 2013 15:28

We walked away from the house. The more we got into the deal and the more research we did we figured out the seller was being kind of shady. The sell was a for sale by owner and the seller was going to carry the loan but the more we got into it the more yuck it was. He was asking about 20k more than comparable houses selling in the area, and ( Read more... )

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parresa22 July 23 2013, 19:18:47 UTC

I'm sorry. Good that you got out of it when you did though! That does sound shady.

Have you found any others that you like yet?

shaannonnn July 23 2013, 20:20:23 UTC

Yes and no. We put in an offer on a short sale but it was flooded with offers and they took someone else's. Another one we called to put in an offer and they had accepted someone else's offer like an hour before. I feel like we're always just THISMUCH too late. :/

I was reading an article the other day saying that inventory here is really low, so it seems like every house we've been interested in has had multiple offers in on it :/ We were hoping to be in escrow or closing when our lease was up in Oct but the likelihood of that happening is looking smaller and smaller. We're just going to tell our landlord we're looking to buy and ask if we can go month to month after our lease is up. Hopefully he says yes and doesn't raise our rent

theretamaragoes July 24 2013, 06:48:01 UTC

Ugh. I'm sorry. I know how frustrating it is to get SO CLOSE to buying a home, and then have a ridiculous, unreasonable seller change everything. It really, really sucks!

shaannonnn July 24 2013, 17:37:24 UTC

Yeah i'm definitely bummed but the more I think about it the more i'm glad we walked away. When I initially called this seller he gave us a certain price, and then gave me a laundry list of work he was about to do to the house. He said he was about to put a new 40 year roof on it, new siding and new paint on the house, landscape the front yard with sod, replace the cabinets and counter tops in the kitchen, and new carpet. All of that work is what made me think that I understood his outrageously high price. So I asked him if he could NOT do all that work (the only thing he had done so far was the carpet) and lower the price, because a lot of that work we wanted to do on our own (and for less!) and he said yes, we could negotiate on the work and the price ( ... )