I wrote awhile back about how we had been looking at buying a house by checking out various open houses. We’ve been looking casually since about September, but only recently started to seriously look at houses once Corina had her contract position made full time in November. Corina has been very gung-ho about this whole process from the get go. She combed MLS to find listings she liked and knew all the new listings in our price range in the neighbourhoods we were interested in inside-out. It was to the point we couldn’t drive anywhere without her pointing out which houses we passed were and weren’t in our price range.

This weekend we decided to check out a couple townhouses in a neighbourhood we were highly interested in with our agent. We hadn’t really been looking at townhouses, but having seen one of them on this street previously on open house we decided to give it another look. Sure enough one of the places we checked out we really liked, even though it was a middle row townhouse. We mulled it over a bit and decided we’d like to put an offer in on the house on Monday night. Our first offer was a lowball offer which we entirely expected to get rejected. Today after work we met with our agent where she told us they had counter offered and dropped $4000 off their asking price. It was still above what we wanted to pay, so we countered with an offer $7000 below asking, but still $6000 more then our original offer. We got word back tonight that they accepted our offer.

I find I’m happy about it, but I’m also a don’t count your chicken before they hatch kind of person. I know my parents have had numerous real estate deals fall through, so well aware that these things can fall apart. We now have a week to sort out our mortgage financing and whatever else needs to be arranged to meet the financing conditions. Should make for an interesting 7 days.