House Hunting

On Friday Nate, the girls, and I went house hunting with our realtor here in Oregon. Earlier in the week we made the decision to walk away from the first house. We had a the home inspection done about a week and a half ago and some serious issues were found. The owner (Fannie Mae) was not willing to negotiate in regards to repairs. Instead they strung us along for a few days before making it clear that they were only interested in selling the house AS IS. They could have informed us about that when we first looked at the house instead of waiting so long. Since the repairs in question were going to cost us $7,000+ we terminated our offer.

So on Friday we started all over with the house hunting. However, much to our surprise, our interaction with the Fannie Mae realtor wasn't over. On Friday morning the Fannie Mae realtor emailed our realtor saying, "Termination received. End of conversation." A few hours later the Fannie Mae realtor called our realtor stating that they were willing to work with us if we'd like to come back and reopen the negotiations. They would pay half the cost for the furnace, take care of the plumbing, and the dry wall. Really? They couldn't negotiate earlier? Our realtor said she'd talk it over with us but we had no intention of going back to that house.

We looked at 8 houses on Friday and the girls did awesome! Sanaa viewed it as an adventure and towards the end started asking us if we could look at another house.

The first 3 houses we saw we liked. We decided to make an offer on the third house we saw. Our realtor submitted our offer this morning and this evening the owners accepted it. They didn't even make a counter offer! That caught us completely off guard but we are very excited! This Wednesday we'll have a home inspection done on this new house and we're praying no serious issues are uncovered.

If all goes well with this new house we'll close on Oct 27.