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Found the best house... and lost it.

Perfect build, everything that I wanted. Land.. white house with black gutters, new build... close to everything. Had public water, septic with all gravity flow, all electric.. Man... this is a TOUGH market.

So the house was listed at 310k for 1500 sq ft, 3 bed 2 bath. The builder was the selling agent, which I found interesting, but my agent didn’t think it was worth that much so we went in at 290k, 70 down, I pay closing. He was supposed to get back with me bc she made it seem like I was willing to go that 310k, but make it seem like she was pushing the 290k.... that back fired. My agent is super awesome and friendly so I know she handled it fine.

I think I’m just posting this to let it out bc I was hoping for this one. I know it’s stupid and I shouldn’t get too wrapped up in one house... but damn what am I supposed to do? Settle for a shit house? Everyone is hopping on these so fast and always seem to have such a high offer.

I don’t have too much time to find a house either... maybe a couple more months or so and I will need to rent. Pretty discouraged and just hoping for encouragement or tips or something.

I’m looking at a house tomorrow that’s about 10 more min from everything, built in 2000 but priced a little cheaper. It’ll take about 20 min to get to Kroger... kinda sucks. I might be settling idk. THIS IS A STRUGGLE. I feel like I just lost the house of my dreams... I know that sounds crazy but it really was everything I wanted.

Thanks for reading if you got this far

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