We closed! (DFW, 5.75%, $375k)
My wife and I were reluctant to buy. We have been watching the market up here in DFW for 3+ years and have been seeing it as totally impossible. Home prices in the areas were desiring were absolutely outrageous and over priced. Over the years, prices have relaxed a little bit and we ended up walking all the homes in our price point that even seemed appealing. They were NOT. Dingy, smelly, clearly in need of remodeling. We ended up going outside of our expected area and found the absolutely perfect home for us!
My wife was extremely nervous leading up to the contract as her biggest concern was getting our offer accepted or not. We submitted our request with an offer letter and requested $5k in concessions and they only countered with a 14-day leaseback! We gratefully accepted and went under contract. Now THIS is where the stress started for me. It was all about getting to close from here. Lots of paperwork, lots of phone calls, emails, and researching my preference on things I had options on. But finally, 30 days later we did it!
For anyone who is currently under contract, it is OK! I freaked out and called my lender every now and then to make sure things were good, and of course they were. If you aren’t hearing from them, it’s good, that means they don’t need as much!
Anyway, I hope anyone on the search can find their home!
EDIT: some are asking for location (for proof?) which I prefer to not share. I’ll just say that it’s near Roanoke and in full disclosure the seller did list it 30k under value due to personal circumstances.