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Closed! Great and Horrible Experience

Like everyone else, I struggled to find a home; several offers lost and moral was crushed.

I finally found the perfect house; it was in a great location, just outdated. I was pretty surprised my offer was accepted because I used the VA loan and only went 15k over asking. I guess the lack of turnkey turned some people away (needed new flooring, carpet was gross, and some other things).

We did the final walk through yesterday and the seller was by far the worst kind of human. He left trash everywhere, meat blood and grease stains all over the kitchen and fridge, and allowed his cat to shit and piss all over the carpet for at least a week. It was honestly hard to even hold my breath from the intense cat smell during the walk through. The carpet was honestly horrific, it wasnt great during my initial viewing of the house, but was 100x worse.

I was absolutely furious and had a mini freak out and told my agent I was out. I'd gladly lose the 3k deposit out of principle. My agent and the sellers agent were equally mad, and said they'd hire someone to do the deep cleaning and were sincerely apologetic.

After taking some time to cool down, I decided to apologize to the realters, as this was not their fault, and move forward with the deal as houses in this area (especially location and by the beach) are flying the moment their listed. I declined their offer for the deep cleaner as I was intending to do a full remodel anyway and replace all the flooring.

We closed and then I spent all day demoing and removing the flooring. To my surprise, the guts of the place was in fantastic shape. I didn't have to replace tbe subfloor or even sand it down (it was level). Just have to treat it with a couple coats of KILLZ oil primer and start installing the LPV. Also hired an HVAC tech to clean/clear all the duct.

Message of this post I guess is to always see the bigger picture. Even if that's losing a house, because a better one might just be around the corner. I'm pretty embarrassed how I took out my anger on the realters and almost walked away for pride/anger on a house that I can already tell will me by HOME after the remodel. I love the location, the neighbors are great (came over with beer and tried to help), and the price was just right!

Also, don't be a shit bag seller.

Happy house hunting everyone, glad this chapter is over for me and hope it is for you soon too!

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