Our Home Story (Part 2/3)

So here's what happened next. After hibernating on this for few months (cold winter), I decided to find another agent. This time I saw her name from a real estate website and contacted her.

The first time we met her, she left a really bad impression since she was late for 30 minutes to meet us. Since this was our trial time with her, we didn't really care. We learned from our friends that we just have to interview our agent and try them before actually making commitment with her.

After working with her, we started to learn that she is always on the phone and we learned not to expect her to be on time for anything! ;)

The time we had with her, we were trying to search for foreclosure homes and fixer-uppers. (Two of my co-workers bought a foreclosure home and fixed up the home and made us wanting to do the same thing.)

After seeing several homes, we decided most of the foreclosure homes need lots of work, and both of us had no experience at all. And most of the older homes were split entrances (the entrance immediately splits into two staircases, so you have to go either up or down) - it was not our favorite thing to do.

So we decided to start looking for a older home with these criteria:

- Mature trees and backyard with privacy
- Waterview would be plus
- We should not be able to see the neighbor's dinner, and vice versa
- At least 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms
- Walk-in closet or her/his closet
- 2 floors with the main floor and garage on the same floor
- We don't have to fix too much to live there and we can do our fixing in the future
- If it has a basement, it has to be a walkout basement
- A lot of natural light into the house

After 2 months of searching, we still could not find any homes matching our criteria until we saw one home not in our search area.

The home was really nice, it has a huge backyard and a small creek at the back. However, this home was out of our price range. But we still decided to put a written offer for the house since I really really liked the house.

The next day, our agent called and told us, the offer has been rejected. Actually, lots of other people had also stopped by, interested in making an offer, but so far only we had made a real offer. We decided to wait a couple more weeks since this home just got to the market and it was too fresh to increase our offer.

Meanwhile we still went to search other places until... well, you'll just have to wait to find out!