Crazy week

Jul 10, 2009 08:37

Last week past has been a busy one. On Friday of last week we had our contract for our house in hand and pending inspection. We found out the house we'd wanted that was about 80k too much for us came down to settle lightly in our price range. We of course turned in an offer, but it's a bank owned home. Doesn't matter what time you turn it in on ( Read more... )

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m00t July 10 2009, 17:32:49 UTC
Good luck on the house!
We're looking for houses ourselves.

Let me know how your dealing with the bank owned property went as we've been generally avoiding those because we've been told horror stories by our agent about them.

Where is yours at?

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eggies_red_dres July 10 2009, 17:39:10 UTC
I've got my two in North Hill elementary school district in Des Monies ( ... )

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m00t July 10 2009, 17:43:54 UTC
Yeah short sale is scary ju-ju and we looked at a couple of those and it just made me depressed.

We've got one house we really like but the location is only so-so. We've had several that have been great but way out of the way (too far north! ugh).

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eggies_red_dres July 10 2009, 17:45:34 UTC
Hold out! Good location is important unless you nevah evah have kids. Plus good locations hold their value better for resale. I mean, if this is the bottom of the market, holding value will be important too, it's only up from here, right? :D

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kielrain July 10 2009, 17:53:38 UTC
Good luck getting into a house!

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eggies_red_dres July 10 2009, 17:59:48 UTC
/hugs/ Thanks. With as strange as things have been it seems like I'll need it.

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