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Offer accepted on our dream home! (DFW, Texas)

EDIT: Removed company/service name

I get the general feeling that this sub’s general sentiment of non-traditional real estate companies isn’t great, but i’m super thankful for them.

We started our search for our next house (young married couple, bought our first home in early 2020) on Monday Feb 14th and found THE house the next day. Not only is it on a lake, extremely modern/contemporary looking, and only 3 years old, but it’s in the sweet spot location-wise between both of our families which was the primary reason we’re looking to move. We toured about 10 other homes, and none even came close.

We used a company’s service, which has them put in an all cash offer on your terms for the new house, you move in once it closes, and after your old house sells on the market you buy the new home from them at the same price.

I’m well aware that this will ultimately will cost us more money from the sale of our current house at closing than a traditional buy/sell process, but i’m convinced that we wouldn’t have had such an easy time buying in this market without it.

Best of luck to everyone else shopping right now - it’s absolutely absurd!

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