Buying a house ****ing sucks.
 

My wife and I are trying to buy a house. We've looked at several. Seven so far to be exact. We have put in offers on five. The last one we offered 5,000 dollars over their asking price. We still don't have a house.

What. The. ****?

This is truly an awful experience. Has anyone else ever had to deal with this kind of nightmare?

Waiting for Bugeater’s expletive filled rant.

Heh, I've always bought houses for 5%-10% less than asking price.

you need to make the other items more attractive, let them pick closing date, etc

We just put our house on the market. Stressful as ****.

Plus trying to buy one at the same ****ing time.

Sellers market regardless of what people say

Tried it. Currently on a lease that ends July 1st. Last house wanted to close June 28th (perfect for us). And no avail. Family selling it was even friends with my wife in high school.

These God damn things sell within 24 hours most of the time.

Ya.. Well tell Bugs about it..

Who says otherwise?

I'm intrigued :hmmm:

I could use a laugh or two right now.

If you don’t mind me asking, where are you located? We moved to KC last year with the intent of renting for two years before buying so we could research school districts and such. I had heard the market had cooled and there was actually surplus locally.

When I bought this house I already had an approval letter for up to X amount from my mortgage lender. I was told that was more appealing to a seller. It makes sense, that way the seller knows for sure that after terms have been agreed upon the house is basically sold.

Lawrence Ks Area

I've also tried the surrounding area small towns like Perry, Eudora, McClouth ect ect.

Every house we offer on has 4-8 other offers coming in as well. Seems like we have to wait in a line just to view one. Several occasions there has been someone looking at a house right before or after we look at it. It's insane.

My realtor said that she has been doing this for 20 years, the worst luck she has had was 0/2 and her client got a house on the 3rd try. We are now 0/5. Probably just going to give up and rent again :(

We have that as well, we are approved up to a certain amount, but we have been trying to keep it under 200k.