The search never ends apparently
We've been looking for about two years with the last 6 months being pretty intense, ie. looking at everything that meets criteria in our search radius. We just put in an offer late last week on the best house we've seen thus far and found out we didn't get it because we were UNDER bid by a family that wrote a letter and "pulled at the homeowners heartstrings". We offered asking and we're allowing them to have post close occupancy as requested with 5% of sale going to escrow until we got possession. We have been advised to not write these letters but to lose out because of them feels like the wrong advice. I'm not saying the escrow didn't have something to do with it but also find that to be ridiculous since it's irrelevant as long as they actually moved. We're just incredibly frustrated.