Everyone here remember the “Tootsie Roll” song? Now sing the
title of this post to that song… Dip Baby Dip… Awesome.
Anyway back to what I meant. Mr. A and I have now been
officially looking for a house for about 6 weeks, unofficially I have been
looking for a house for over a year. Heck let’s be honest I have been looking
at houses to buy since I started my career in the Real Estate field 5 years ago.
I obsess over new listings, and up until late last year felt that there were
almost too many great options.
Fast forward to today. I am at a loss. There seems to be a
conspiracy amongst sellers. They are all holding off their listings. There is
CRAP on the market right now. Other than the first two homes that we had found
promising, and the house that got away (still a sad panda about that one BTW),
there is just nothing out there.
We have looked a few other stray houses here and there. We
have been unsuccessful at even making an offer on a house. Mr. A has become
SUPER picky about every house we look at, worst of all he is picky about things
that I could care less about. Like the infamous, “yea, but where do I put my TV”
or “my sofas don’t fit in this living room” and all I can think about is, we
will get a new sofa, or we will figure out a way to watch TV I am sure of it. I
care about location and location and maybe an updated kitchen at this point,
but that is not even a deal breaker.
Mr. A I believe is trying to make me happy by agreeing to
look at smaller houses in the area I like but in the end I always wind up
heartbroken because our frigging sofas won’t fit… Really!? I have since told
him I want him to stop wasting my and our REALTOR’s time. I know he wants the
perfect first home as well so I am trying not to freak out on him all the time
when he acts like that. But Grr.
So really, the reason I am writing this post is not to bitch
about my sweet husband, but to bitch about sellers. COME ON PEOPLE MOVE!!!!! I
know you want to list your adorable house in the perfect neighborhood at the
best price ever today! List baby List, so I do not freak out on my husband. I
want to find a house already dammit!
This is really starting to blow, just in case you could not
tell.
Just because we all like to look here is the link to the
house with the small living room that I like but he does not like: http://austinhomesearch.com/Search/Details.aspx?li=287947&or=1&cp=5
1 comment:
We are dealing with the same thing in Houston. We drive through our target neighborhood and I secretly chant "sell your home people!" Our realtor said there was an article in the Houston Chronicle about low home inventory recently.
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