And I'll see your 250!

Yea, so the wife pretty much covered the basics of our house offer adventure that we went through this afternoon. The short of it is this:
1. We were going to put in an offer on a house and the seller's realtor knew we had seen the house twice and wanted to see it again
2. Somebody else (suspiciously) made an offer on the house today
3. We had to hustle and get our offer in.
4. Of course, not knowing what their offer was, we were too scared to (politely) low-ball them with our offer so we upped it to just a smidgen under the sale price.
5. They liked our offer better so they counter-offered our offer and added 250 bucks. They also put a bunch of other items in their counter-offer that said we have to hustle and not drag our feet with this i.e. getting our mortgage together, the home inspection, and so on.
6. I just got an email from our realtor (at 10:45 on a saturday night, man she rocks!) that says that she'll call me tomorrow as soon as they sign. Once they sign that means we are in contract for a house!

Wooo-hooo! I'm hoping they'll sign and we go into contract tommorrow because Amanda and I have done what every potential home owner shouldn't do, and that's become emotionally attached to the house before purchase. Oh well, what can we say, we're human. It had cat doors, what were we supposed to do?!!?

On the downside, we forgot to put in there that the screen door was broken and we want that fixed. D'oh! But we did get the barstools!

So that's that. On top of that we went through all of this while I was at work today...darn end of the quarter milestones. Next week is going to be exciting as well with all that we have to get moving on with the house and meeting deadlines at work. But I wouldn't want it any other way, I'm employed and we got the house we wanted under the price it was listed on the market!

C