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JamminR:
Bit of an update.
Tomorrow, if people show as planned, will make 4 showings in 4 weeks.

HOPEFUL news.
(I don't have false hopes, but the thoughts are nice anyway)
We had a showing yesterday. Our realtor gave us feedback today that SUPPOSEDLY the other realtor says its between our house and the same floorplan house at the end of the street.
I don't know if this is proverbial realtor smoke blowing or not. (On the part of OUR realtor OR the other)
1) We've heard similiar feedback before. I say 'similar' because previously we were told outright 'we're second runner up if first offer falls through'
2) I'm a skeptical realist. I hope for best, expect worst.

The other house we're supposedly tied with uses more of its space. it has an additional two car garage to its side, and a larger downstairs.
Our floor downstairs is half thiers, because it is instead a one car garage.

That being said, we heard from the neighbor of another house for sale that the viewer's realtor told THEM that the people looking would be stretching to afford the other house. We're a good $15k cheaper.

So..pieced together.
1) People are deciding on which of the two houses to go for.
2) We're more affordable.

That means they'll make an offer on the other house, right? At least thats what all the HGTV "home buying show" people end up doing, buying the house they originally state they can't afford. :)
Skeptical to the end. I won't lose sleep tonight.

We do have a showing tomorrow.

JamminR:
Last update for the year.
Only a few showings during October. Back to school seemed to kill the 'looking'.
We had ~8 showings during the first 3 weeks of November.
No bites.

We took our house off the market today.
We're on travel/out of country from Dec 6 to Dec 16th, and didn't want our house to be shown while away, nor do we want to show during the Christmas holiday with all the family plans we have.

Though wife may change mind, I believe we're going to try again sometime early next year. I say January again, but I don't know for sure.



Golden-Death, save the quarters you get for Christmas, perhaps you'll have enough by the time we put it back on the market.

Golden-Death:
Sweeeet.  8)

JamminR:
Update. We've found another house we want. It's in the same neighborhood. Lots more room. Quite a bit more cost too, but interest rates are (currently lower) than what we locked in at on the last offer. Amazing what interest rates can do to help/hurt. The original house had ~2300sq feet. The house we want now is ~2800sq feet and would only cost us a few more dollars a month.

The house is currently only a frame, no sheetrock walls or windows (as of Sunday). We plan on making an offer this coming week, at the latest, next.
I'm preparing to write an email with a wish list of things we want done during the build.

Though I won't cover the wish list too much, they're things like running ethernet through the house, and speaker terminals in the living room for surround speakers.
I figure since the sheet rock (wasn't as of Sunday) isn't up yet, it would be much easier.

We're going to make the offer non-contingent, since that went so well last time (and the fact that since there are only about 10 lots/15 houses available in the neighborhood, we figure they'd say 'no' on one currently being built.
I pray we sell before we close.

GoldenDeath, got those 500000 quarters? We're willing to take a much lower price if no realtors fees are involved.
Otherwise, expect us taking no less than 520000. :D

JamminR:
After getting our wish list, the realtor came back with ~20K worth of addon cost.
We were expecting less than 10K.

Needless to say, we've brought in big guns (another realtor) who we met with tonight for 1.5 hours, standing, in the frame house, where the breakfast nook would be if the house were more complete. (There's a frame there where an open wall will be, so it was used to sign papers.)
Our realtor said most of the costs weren't that bad, but as we knew from pricing upgrades on our house, some were.

We refined our list, and we've made an offer on the house, without all of the wish list we wanted. The seller response is expected by Friday 5/23 6pm.
Our house goes on market next week. Last chance to save yourself $9000. :P

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