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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Well, I made an offer and didn't get it.

Offers were due an hour after the close of the open house. Apparently there were 11 offers, 6 at or above list, and 3 all cash. I'll try to remember to come back and update when I learn the final sales price. But I have reason to believe it is probably at or over 1.1M.

I knew our offer was likely dead in the water because we insisted on an inspection because a conservation easement on the property did not allow expansion of the existing retaining wall (behind the house it is a very steep wooded slope to a creek), and I wasn't comfortable buying without an engineer looking at it and telling me it was fine and would never need to be expanded (probably the case, but I'm risk averse). I'm doubting anyone else looked that closely at the easement, but DH and I are lawyers and actually familiar with conservation easements, lol. [/quote]

I'm not surprised.  That price was pretty low for the property.  The easement would have scared me too, though.  Although I don't believe in tearing down trees, I don't know how comfortable I would feel knowing all my decisions would need to be second guessed.[/quote]

Yeah -- I had no problem not tearing down trees and not being able to build additional structures, I wouldn't have wanted to do those things anyway. But being restricted with regard to a retaining wall that keeps the house from sliding down the slope? That scared me. It's probably fine, but like I said, I'm risk averse, so -- I insisted on an inspection and lost the house. It's okay, I'll keep looking. It was so beautiful though, and just what I wanted -- MCM, one-level living, surrounded by woods, quiet, move-in ready, priced well below what something similar would be in a place like Hollin Hills. Sigh. Onward with the house search I guess. [/quote]

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