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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here with an update.

I talked over the situation and my desires carefully with my agent, explaning that I really wanted house #2, but didn't want to do anything shady or unfair to the owners of house #1.

Per her advice I submitted an aggressive offer on house #2 while still waiting to hear back about my not very aggressive offer on house #1. Not surprisingly, the owners of house #1 countered my offer, upping the price and changing some of the terms. (If they had accepted my offer as is then I would have pulled my offer on house #2 before those sellers had a chance to respond to it, and bought house #1.)

Shortly thereafter, the owners of house #2 accepted my offer with no counter. After I signed the contract for house #2 I let the owners of house #1 know I wouldn't be accepting their counter. This all happened within the course of 24-48 hours.

Although I do feel slightly bad for the sellers of house #2, I truly don't think I did anything unethical, and I'm confident they'll be able to sell with no issues despite wasting a day or two with me.

Morale of the story: go for the house you truly want. There's a way.[/quote]

Sounds like you handled it well. But you got away with one. You're lucky the owners of #1 countered! But I agree, nothing shady happened here.[/quote]

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