Make sure its vacant before you sign for one.

ROFL

We had originally planned on lining up a visit to look in person but we can't make travel arrangements fast enough.

At this point, we're down to putting blind offers in or just giving up.

What kind of timeframe are you on? I was in the market to buy my first house and didn't want to even take part in the feeding frenzy that's going on right now, so I just ended up building a new home. It will obviously take a little longer but I was able to avoid having to put in offers and getting rejected countless times.

Will the company you work for help you out? I just hired a new Operations Manager and him, his wife, and four kids are moving from Indiana to Wichita. We are flying his entire family down here for a week, putting them up in a hotel, and have a realtor assigned to work with them for that entire week looking at houses.

I can't imagine trying to buy a house without being physically able to look at them and in this market you basically have to be the first or second person to look at a property and put in an offer for above asking price. Good luck, I hope you find something soon.

Never contact a lawyer. Contact your sporting goods store for a baseball bat.

That's what happened to us when we were planning on moving to Cheyenne a couple years ago. Everything worth a damn was selling in a day. Soooo we're still in Omaha...

Yep, that's the lesson we learned, you pretty much have to buy sight unseen. It's easier to back out of a deal than to buy something that's no longer for sale.

Mind if I ask where was this located?

Isn't the price on lumber still unusually high right now? Seems like not a good time to build.

They should take tips from this thread

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...5124079&nojs=1

Same thing down here in Texas right now. My wife is a realtor. Homes if priced correctly, get offers within a day or two at most. Even new build inventory is having problems keeping up with demand.

Lumber prices way up

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...1-e78fb9c29997

Home builders are used to putting things up, but these days they wouldn’t mind at least one thing coming down.

Since last April, lumber costs have spiked 180%, according to the National Association of Home Builders, increasing the cost of building an average home by $24,386.

“It’s stressful,” Mark Scherer, owner of Scherer Brothers Lumber Company says. “It’s stressful across the board, for the builders, the consumers and for the suppliers, because you’re just scrambling to keep up.”

Scherer points to one of the most common items used in new homes and remodels: oriented strand board, or OSB, used in floors, walls, and roofs.

“This cost about $15 last year in March,” Scherer says pointing at a stack of OSB. “Now it’s about $45, $47 a sheet.”

Even the price of basic 2x4 studs has spiked.

“They used to be $3 a stud and now they're $6 or $8, depending on what grade they are,” Scherer Lumber’s Terry Olynyk says.

Supplies tightened last spring when COVID-19 forced mill shutdowns, then tightened again when stay-at-home and low-interest rates caused a boom in construction.

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“Labor’s up, concrete’s up, you can't get fuse box panels right now,” Scherer says.
Contractor Ryan Seifert has been riding the price hikes like everyone else in the building industry.

“This is 20th year for me, I haven't seen this,” the owner of Cyclone Construction says.

Still, Seifert says lumber prices don't seem be scaring off customers.
“The phone hasn't stopped ringing during this thing, even though the costs are up,” Seifert says.

Scherer doesn’t see an easing in demand or prices for at least for the next six to nine months.

“Look at interest rates, they’re ridiculously low,” Scherer said. “Money’s cheap, people are going to keep building.”

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Nah, my company doesn't provide relocation assistance unfortunately. And they're not requiring me to move, at least not yet. It's just a suggestion. And I'm desperate to get the **** out of the midwest.

Des Moines is brutal right now. I ended up just doing new construction.

I honestly can't believe why people would want to live here.

I ****ing hate it here.