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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Lilwolf on June 21, 2004, 01:26:51 pm
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Well, after years of mastering the art of Sniping with ebay trying to get the best deal on the weirdest items...
I have moved to the next level.
Yesterday, I sniped a house!
My wife and I had picked the house we where going to put a bid on. We went on one more round of homes to make sure we where happy about the original house was right.
Well, we found a house we LOVED! it is !@# beautiful, great everything, everything we where really looking for... Something you can imagine retiring in..
but... they already had an offer..
but... The offer was below asking... and they spent a week arguing back and forth about what they would pay. They finally came to an agreement, but it hadn't been signed yet...
And we went in, and bid asking + some. And got the house.
I now will have (in a month) a finished basement big enought for not only my current mame cab... a few originals and a few pinball tables! Plus my pooltable!
I'm very excited!
Of course... I JUST gave away my sitdown cab because the original house was too small... and now have plenty of room... Sigh...
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Congrats!
As long as the seller didn't already have any earnest(sp?) money from the first bidder, I say good job! It doesn't always pay to aggressively haggle over the last few pennies. IMO, a seller that is happy with the sale will be more likely to clean better, not dent walls moving their furniture out, etc. Sounds like you made them a very fair offer and, in exchange, got the home of your dreams.
Good luck on the game room.
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Congrads!!
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Nope, no money down... And they argued for 2 weeks over price...
And the sellers went back to them to allow a counter offer... and they turned it down... (glad... I don't know how far my wife would have forced me to go in a bidding war)
Congrats!
As long as the seller didn't already have any earnest(sp?) money from the first bidder, I say good job! It doesn't always pay to aggressively haggle over the last few pennies. IMO, a seller that is happy with the sale will be more likely to clean better, not dent walls moving their furniture out, etc. Sounds like you made them a very fair offer and, in exchange, got the home of your dreams.
Good luck on the game room.
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Nice!!!! Although sometimes it's ok to be on the other end of the snipe too.
I went through what you just did about 4 years ago, My wife and I bid on a house, only to have another couple outbid us by $10K. We didn't think we could do it so we let them have it. A week later we found another house, with more space, and on a golf course, for the price the other couple bid on the other house.
Needless to say it worked out for us ok. ;D
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I smell a PARTY coming. Let us know when so we can celecbrate w/you.
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I smell a PARTY coming. Let us know when so we can celecbrate w/you.
ROOOAAADDD TRIIIIIIP!! ;D
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Congratz, I need to get out of Texas, no basements here :'(
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Congratz, I need to get out of Texas, no basements here
ummmmmmm..........interesting........Tornado alley has no basements lol!
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Yeah, at least in my part of Texas, our ground is too "shifty" for basements (too much sand).
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Yeah, at least in my part of Texas, our ground is too "shifty" for basements (too much sand).
At least the stars at night are big and bright...