Crazy Night

OMG - Z got home from work last night and told me he'd just spoken with the Realtor and someone had put an offer in on the house. So we met our Realtor at the house again, did a much more serious walk-through including going in the attic, checking the floor for bad places hidden by furniture, etc. We ultimately decided to not let the other offer influence the money we were willing to spend, but to go ahead and offer what we would have anyway, just 20 days earlier than we wanted to. It was nerve-wracking for sure. We were at the Realtor's office until 10:00 last night. We offered what we felt comfortable with. Our Realtor really tried to make us offer full price, but we were just not willing to do that, even with another offer on the table. We have no idea what the other offer is (Z tends to think it's a friend or someone putting in an extremely low offer just to get us to act, since the seller's agent knew we existed and had asked to be alerted if another offer came in; then one came in the very next day...) but I'm hoping that the other people, if they were real and genuine, would have made a reasonable offer like ours. We, however, offered to pay a portion of closing costs, which, in case you're not currently buying or selling a house, is usually all paid for by the seller in this market. All we can do is hope that makes our offer slightly more attractive.

Our Realtor seemed to think there was practically no way in the world our offer would be accepted, and I hate that because this was supposed to be exciting. We never truly expected another buyer with this house, so we thought we could do the traditional offers and counter-offers, but that got all messed up, and I feel weird about it. I don't know if it's how I truly feel or if I'm just feeding off our Realtor's attitude, but I feel like we won't get it. Z feels like we probably will. We should find out today.

There's no way I'm getting any work done today...