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SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
Time for a rant...super frustrated with trying to find a house to buy
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<blockquote data-quote="TerminatoRS" data-source="post: 16423098" data-attributes="member: 195778"><p>Buying a house these days sucks. It doesn't seem to matter where you are geographically. Went through it all two years ago and glad it's behind me.</p><p></p><p>Private showings turn into open houses due to so much interest. I'm not willing to put in an immediate offer after seeing a shack for 20min nor will I compete, waive a home inspection, and gamble with $300+ grand. If a house popped up online, chances were it was already sold anyway. </p><p></p><p>OP...If you're not in a hurry, just wait it out. It's a lot of money that you'll be forking over for years to come (unless you're loaded, but that's none of my business).</p><p></p><p>We looked for almost a year. The house we have is the one I refused to look at initially due to being overpriced for the area. It sat and sat and sat and the price began to fall. Same deal as you mentioned; investors came in, redid basically the entire house inside and out, and wanted all their money back plus ~$100k. We offered them what I thought it was worth. (Our realtor is a friend of ours who initially thought I was nuts for offering about 40k less than asking, but soon agreed after she ran the comps. I grew up literally on the other end of the block.) Seller rejected our offer. Month later, their greedy asses came crawling back. Got the house for $35k less than the original asking price. Granted the city came by and cranked my taxes up $2k due to all the improvements, but it was somewhat expected. 2442sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 3.75 heated and cooled garage, corner lot for just the two of us with absolutely zero plans to expand. It all works out in the end so hang in there!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerminatoRS, post: 16423098, member: 195778"] Buying a house these days sucks. It doesn't seem to matter where you are geographically. Went through it all two years ago and glad it's behind me. Private showings turn into open houses due to so much interest. I'm not willing to put in an immediate offer after seeing a shack for 20min nor will I compete, waive a home inspection, and gamble with $300+ grand. If a house popped up online, chances were it was already sold anyway. OP...If you're not in a hurry, just wait it out. It's a lot of money that you'll be forking over for years to come (unless you're loaded, but that's none of my business). We looked for almost a year. The house we have is the one I refused to look at initially due to being overpriced for the area. It sat and sat and sat and the price began to fall. Same deal as you mentioned; investors came in, redid basically the entire house inside and out, and wanted all their money back plus ~$100k. We offered them what I thought it was worth. (Our realtor is a friend of ours who initially thought I was nuts for offering about 40k less than asking, but soon agreed after she ran the comps. I grew up literally on the other end of the block.) Seller rejected our offer. Month later, their greedy asses came crawling back. Got the house for $35k less than the original asking price. Granted the city came by and cranked my taxes up $2k due to all the improvements, but it was somewhat expected. 2442sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 3.75 heated and cooled garage, corner lot for just the two of us with absolutely zero plans to expand. It all works out in the end so hang in there! [/QUOTE]
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