Our Offer was Accepted - Part 2

In my last post, I detailed how we finally put an offer on a house and how we had to walk away from it because the terms of the seller’s counter offer were not something we could live with. Here’s the rest of the story.

After we walked away, we thought it was over and done with and were actually online again scouring new homes that came on the market. The next day we got a call from our realtor telling us the listing agent of the home had contacted her and asked if we were still interested. Our realtor told her yes, but not at those terms. We countered her counters with terms we were comfortable with, but we felt were fair to both parties. The listing agent let us know that at this point it was between us and one other offer.

The next day, The Husband and I were emailing back and forth. One of his emails told me that the house we had put an offer on showed as “pending” online. I responded that they must have gone with the other offer because if they had accepted ours, we would know. We were bummed. Then The Husband told me to check my email (personal account, not work) and that we wouldn’t need to go to any open houses that weekend.

Our offer was accepted! We are still in shock and we still can’t believe it! We have a long way to go in the escrow process as escrow was just opened. We still need to get through inspections and appraisals; but we are in escrow with an estimated closing date of early next month.

The home really is perfect for us. It is a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home on ONE STORY!!!! It was only built 16 years ago and has dual pane windows, an open concept, air conditioning, 2 car garage, a fireplace, and it is on a quiet street with no rear neighbors. It even has an in-ground pool and spa that The Husband wanted. It literally checked all of our boxes.  That’s not to say that there aren’t things we want to change in the house to make it our own, but the bones are all there.

We currently live in a very competitive housing market; and it is definitely a seller’s market. It took us a long time to find the perfect house and we feel so blessed that our offer was accepted on the only house we have wanted to put an offer on. We also feel so blessed that we didn’t settle on any old house and we waited to put an offer in until it was the right house for us.

Finding a new house has been a very stressful endeavor. The not-knowing-where-we-were-going-to-live had us on pins and needles. Now, assuming everything goes well with escrow, we will move straight from our current house to our new house.

Now we just have to pray that the escrow process goes smoothly, that the appraisal and appraisal amount is not an issue, and that the house passes all inspections.

*Side note: The buyer of our house has been so accommodating and generous with us throughout this time. She has changed closing dates for escrow, allowed us to rent back, and adjusted her schedule so we could move directly from one house to the next.