Carlos and I put an offer in on a house yesterday, which was accepted. The only issue is the house already had an accepted offer on it which was conditional on the sale of their home. So, because the seller accepted our offer, the first people who submitted the offer have 48 hours to either remove all their conditions or walk away. The clock started ticking on that yesterday at 4:30pm, so we will know either way by tomorrow at 4:30pm. Could be earlier if they made their decision before then, but I suspect it will be close to the deadline when we hear.
Carlos and I have been thinking about moving for the last several months. We love our house, but it is not the best location (surrounded by student rentals). Think loud parties and broken beer bottles on the front lawn. Now that we have Julie, we want to move to a nice, quiet family-friendly street. But, I’m not willing to move until we find the perfect house – has to have absolutely everything on our checklist, otherwise I am happy to stay where we are until we find that.
So, since October, I have been checking listings on mls.ca almost every day to see what’s out there and we have gone to maybe 5 or 6 open houses. Every house we’ve seen, I left thinking “Nice house, but not the house for us”. Until we went to the open house on Sunday – we both fell in love with the house! It’s on a nice, quiet street with a cul-de-sac on one side (i.e. no through traffic), in our preferred end of town, 2 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, double attached garage, unfinished basement that could easily be converted to more bedrooms or a large rec room. It also has a fully fenced in yard (which isn’t huge, but larger than some of the other houses we’ve seen!), nice kitchen, gas fireplace in the great room, main floor laundry, and the list goes on!
This house only went on the market a week ago and the first day it was on the market, they got an offer and accepted it. However, that offer was conditional on the sale of their house and their house didn’t even go on the market until today. So, they have until tomorrow at 4:30pm to either remove the conditions to their offer or walk away. I am doubtful they would be able to sell their house in 1.5 days, but you never know, it could happen. Or they could decide to ‘risk it’ and just hope their house sells in time before the closing date. But, that is very risky, so I’m hoping they would just walk away from the deal!
Either way, in 25 hours, I will know if we get this house or not. If we do, then I already have a home inspection scheduled for Friday afternoon. It is a 4 year old house, so not likely to be anything major wrong with it, but you never know with the builders these days…. So, spending the money on a home inspection is worth every penny in my opinion!
2 comments:
Sorry you didn't get the place... keep looking and you'll find another one you love. And you are right... a home inspection is worth every penny (and try to get references on your inspector too).
Oh yes, we already have a home inspector picked out - the same one my brother used a couple of years ago. He did an awesome job!
We're quite disappointed since we absolutely LOVED this house. But, perhaps there is an even better one in store for us!
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