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Needing general advice!!

Hopefully the right subreddit! My fiancé, father in law and myself are desperately looking to get out of our current living situations all for different but not urgent reasons. I should note, we live in Canada, I have to switch jobs due to me not driving and fiancé and I have never had our own house/apartment before so this is very new to us. We went to a showing for a place a town over and we love it but there's a few things that caught us off guard.

  1. It said utilities included in all the ads we saw for this place but the gentleman who showed us the property said its not included. Maybe lost in translation?
  2. They actually said they thought $2000 was TOO much so they asked us to put in an offer and we said $1500, but we definitely can increase that.
  3. This was all about 2 weeks ago and hes reached out to me to ask about the breed of my FILs dog and minor questions.
  4. I reached out yesterday to ask about the status and he says he's been struggling to get them to improve their price? And were at $1800 now... what does this mean?

I'm only rushing/panicking to know our status because if we get approved I have to give my work decent notice and apply for our other location. (They are hiring for my exact position now). Is this a fairly normal stretch of time to have when renting out a place? TYIA!!

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