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[unicornduke]

We saw a house this morning and made an offer on it. It was nice, close to important locations, half acre, quiet area and we really liked the house. It was a little more suburban which hurt me in my rural feelings but I got over it because it was nice. It was listed at 250k, we offered 285k. Offers needed to be in by 6pm.

Just got a call about 45 mins ago from my realtor who said we were 7th out of 16 offers.

Bonkers stuff.

Anyway, we're still looking. There will be other houses and worst comes to worst, F's mom is looking to sell her house in about a year.

I stopped by two open houses on my way home from our showings this morning and I'm glad the others didn't make the drive up, they were both duds. One was an old farmhouse that they had renovated so thoroughly that the only thing remaining from the original house was the weird layout. Otherwise, very generic. Hilariously, the neighbor started chainsawing as soon as the open house started, which amused me greatly. Other house was very meh.

I'm feeling better on the blood front, I can make it up the hill now without feeling horrible. Definitely more effort than before giving blood but better.

Mara had a terrible night last night because several rounds of giant thunderstorms rolled through. I may talk to her vet about getting Good Drugs for her because she refuses to lay down, paces around, pants and pants. It's gotten a lot worse in the last two or three years so might be time for some help for her.

Can't remember what else has been happening oh well. Stuff. Things.

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[which_chick]

The real estate market here (I am a landlord who also writes mortgages for other landlords) is quite hot. In the last three months, everything I've seen that was sanely priced sold in under a week (this is rental properties... duplexes, lots with multiple buildings, 'needs serious work' fixer-uppers, definitely not move-in-ready SFH stuff) at higher than the ask. I don't so much have my fingers on the pulse of the owner-occupied market, but I suspect it's similarly ... busy. Inflation paired with super low interest rates is likely responsible for a good chunk of the fluff in prices, at least for rental properties.

There is always another house. People die or move into retirement communities or relocate for jobs or get divorced or downsize because all the kids are grown and moved out. It's annoying and time-consuming to have to keep shopping, though.

[unicornduke]

Yeah, I thought things were slowing down a little, we've been one of two offers before but that was an old farmhouse. But I guess the suburbs get wild or something.

There's always more houses and we debated on waiting for a less suburban house to come on the market but we really liked this one. I had a feeling once I texted the realtor our offer #s at noon and she replied there was already 6 offers that we weren't going to get it. Oh well, wasn't gonna happen.

We really narrowed our focus a lot once we saw some houses, got a sense of what we like, have some criteria for distance and depending on what pops up, my guess is that we'll only see one or two per week which is doable after work or a morning on the weekend. The drive is the biggest aggravation for me and driving an hour each way isn't the worst.