A Swing and a Miss

On Wednesday, after getting the good news from the heart doctor, I went to check out a house I liked during the first house hunting trip. I liked it because it was a very good fit for what I was looking for, so I decided to make an offer on it. Since there was another offer it was $100 over the list price.  

I was going to do that today after work but I got a call last night from my realtor that the seller’s realtor told him there another offer had been made. I went back out and met with my guy and we wrote up an offer.

Later the same night I got a call that both the offers were the same, and could we do any better. So I did, in fact I’m now offering even more ABOVE their list price.

Their realtor said she was concerned about my financing because I got a pre-qualified letter from lenders from lendingtree.com. I guess this doesn’t hold much weight when making an offer.

So this morning I called the guy from Country Wide that my realtor suggested to get a qualification letter from them for the offer. He wasn’t available most of this morning because he was at a closing, but he talked to their realtor and verbally said my credit was good (around noon).

So now I’m waiting to hear back about my offer. The last thing my guy heard was that both offers were “practically” the same, and that both of us were equally strong as buyers (not having any conditions such as having to sell another house or something like that).

I’m waiting to hear back, and waiting, and waiting. In the meantime I start thinking, “if they do have 2 identical offers, why are they not picking one?” I get a call from my guy about 6:30pm and he says he still hasn’t heard back from her. At 8 he calls and says he still hasn’t heard back from her.

Now I’m starting to get feel a little hinky about this whole thing. The only reason I went above the list a second time was to lock this thing up. Not hearing anything back from their realtor isn’t helping.

So around 8:30 my guy calls again and I don’t want my offer just sitting there for too long. The only reason I bid that high was to seal the deal. So he leaves another voicemail with her saying that we need to at least her from her, and that if we don’t we’re probably going to withdraw (because we’re both starting to think she’s dragging her feet waiting for a possible third offer, or trying to get the other guy to raise theirs again). Sure enough she calls back 5 minutes later to say they went with the other offer. This took all of about 30 seconds, why she waited I don’t know.

In the end I’m disappointed that I didn’t get the house, because I thought it was a really good fit for what I’m looking for, but with all the weirdness I’m also fine with not getting it. Like I said, I just got a hinky feeling about the whole thing. Back to the drawing board I guess!