Master Sniper!

[Lilwolf]

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...  

[zaphod]

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.

[GGKoul]

Congrads!!

[Lilwolf]

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.

[Nailz]

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.  

[Thenasty]

I smell a PARTY coming. Let us know when so we can celecbrate w/you.

[DrewKaree]

I smell a PARTY coming. Let us know when so we can celecbrate w/you.

ROOOAAADDD  TRIIIIIIP!!  

[AlexC]

Congratz, I need to get out of Texas, no basements here  

[NIVO]

Congratz, I need to get out of Texas, no basements here

ummmmmmm..........interesting........Tornado alley has no basements lol!

[RacerX]

Yeah, at least in my part of Texas, our ground is too "shifty" for basements (too much sand).

[Dartful Dodger]

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...