Heartbreak over loss of dream home

[Anonymous]

Talk to a real estate agent and see if you can convince them
to make the price of a home $300k-$500k more than it’s actually worth. That will shop off people who would otherwise look at the house when normally priced. Then make your offer at the normal price. No competition, problem solved. I’m close with my realtor and that’s what they did for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Talk to a real estate agent and see if you can convince them
to make the price of a home $300k-$500k more than it’s actually worth. That will shop off people who would otherwise look at the house when normally priced. Then make your offer at the normal price. No competition, problem solved. I’m close with my realtor and that’s what they did for me.

Shoo off*

[Anonymous]

OP, come to the Chesapeake school zone in Pasadena. We would love to welcome you here, we are 1-1.5 hours from DC, but the commute is worth the laidback environment. You’d buy a major investment, as our property values are rising and we like to refer to ourselves as the “Potomac on the Chesapeake Bay.” The Chesapeake schools are some of the best, and we have blue ribbon elementary schools. Waterfront shacks are being replaced with huge and gorgeous homes. The ram trucks are out and the BMW/Audi SUV is in. You can buy a beautiful home on the water here for $1M-1.7M. Hurry before we get too expensive!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, come to the Chesapeake school zone in Pasadena. We would love to welcome you here, we are 1-1.5 hours from DC, but the commute is worth the laidback environment. You’d buy a major investment, as our property values are rising and we like to refer to ourselves as the “Potomac on the Chesapeake Bay.” The Chesapeake schools are some of the best, and we have blue ribbon elementary schools. Waterfront shacks are being replaced with huge and gorgeous homes. The ram trucks are out and the BMW/Audi SUV is in. You can buy a beautiful home on the water here for $1M-1.7M. Hurry before we get too expensive!

Right. One of the most racist places in be state of Maryland. OP, if you’re Black, don’t go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, come to the Chesapeake school zone in Pasadena. We would love to welcome you here, we are 1-1.5 hours from DC, but the commute is worth the laidback environment. You’d buy a major investment, as our property values are rising and we like to refer to ourselves as the “Potomac on the Chesapeake Bay.” The Chesapeake schools are some of the best, and we have blue ribbon elementary schools. Waterfront shacks are being replaced with huge and gorgeous homes. The ram trucks are out and the BMW/Audi SUV is in. You can buy a beautiful home on the water here for $1M-1.7M. Hurry before we get too expensive!

Right. One of the most racist places in the state of Maryland. OP, if you’re Black, don’t go there.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, come to the Chesapeake school zone in Pasadena. We would love to welcome you here, we are 1-1.5 hours from DC, but the commute is worth the laidback environment. You’d buy a major investment, as our property values are rising and we like to refer to ourselves as the “Potomac on the Chesapeake Bay.” The Chesapeake schools are some of the best, and we have blue ribbon elementary schools. Waterfront shacks are being replaced with huge and gorgeous homes. The ram trucks are out and the BMW/Audi SUV is in. You can buy a beautiful home on the water here for $1M-1.7M. Hurry before we get too expensive!

Right. One of the most racist places in be state of Maryland. OP, if you’re Black, don’t go there.

I admit that we have a huge problem with racism here, we are trying really hard to change that. If OP is Black, then it definitely won’t be the most welcoming environment here, but they should still consider. Many of us like myself would love to welcome OP here with open arms. There’s a large group of us standing against everything going on, and we are working hard to turn our community around. Check out One Pasadena on Facebook!

[Anonymous]

BTDT, and like others, it worked out better in the end. We thought our dream house was in the suburbs, with a big yard, a pool, and views. After we lost out, we took a break from house hunting for awhile, maybe a year. Our lives shifted, and we ended up buying a city house on a 5,000 square foot lot. We’re still here 24 years later, and I can’t imagine having given our kids a better life, with all the opportunities of living in the city and minimal commuting for us. The bonus: the house we didn’t buy has increased in value by maybe 25% in all this time. Our current home is worth 3x what we paid for it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, OP. I’ve been there, pregnant and all, and you know what? An even dreamier home showed up a year later

So keep up your spirits!

A year???

Well, it was there the whole time, but it was a fixer-upper priced too high, and so we took 6 months to persuade the seller to substantively decrease the price. By 100K. Then we renovated, exactly to our liking. I think DD was a little over a year old when we moved in. 10 years later, I still LOVE my home. My point is that it's worth waiting for a dream home, and that there might be several dream homes for you out there. Just like spouses...

Are you aware some people can’t wait a year to move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sorry, OP. I’ve been there, pregnant and all, and you know what? An even dreamier home showed up a year later

So keep up your spirits!

A year???

Well, it was there the whole time, but it was a fixer-upper priced too high, and so we took 6 months to persuade the seller to substantively decrease the price. By 100K. Then we renovated, exactly to our liking. I think DD was a little over a year old when we moved in. 10 years later, I still LOVE my home. My point is that it's worth waiting for a dream home, and that there might be several dream homes for you out there. Just like spouses...

Are you aware some people can’t wait a year to move?

Nonsense. Anyone can rent for a year. They might not want to, but that’s a different matter.