https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:55:58 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-162846 Fri, 18 May 2012 11:11:28 +0000 sulli301 162846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am so sorry :( That really stinks! I know that we were interested in a house before the one we have now, but things fell through &amp; we are so happy now that they did! I hope that happens for you. Good luck :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-161361 Thu, 17 May 2012 11:28:57 +0000 LuLu Mom 161361@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I'm so sorry, I have heard of this happening before. Such an underhanded thing for the seller's to do! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-161348 Thu, 17 May 2012 11:21:05 +0000 Alivoo01 161348@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so sorry!! That doesn't sound right at all!! I'm sure something better will come along, and it will all work itself out. *hugs* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-161347 Thu, 17 May 2012 11:20:10 +0000 red_seattle 161347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Witz: Forgot to add, good luck! The right one has to come along eventually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-161340 Thu, 17 May 2012 11:17:45 +0000 red_seattle 161340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ALittleP: So jealous. We're moving from Bellevue. It has been such a wonderful, wonderful place to live for the past 3 years. Going to miss it sooo much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160991 Thu, 17 May 2012 04:37:28 +0000 mediagirl 160991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! I didn't realize there were areas still going through this type of market. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. </p> <p>We lost out on the first house we put an offer in on in Maryland. We waited our full 5 days after placing the offer and then the agent came back telling us the sellers had taken their home off the market! Apparently, they were out of the country and using their real estate agent as a house sitter. :-\ </p> <p>It all worked out in the end. I found a job in NC not long after that and we moved here and found something much bigger, for the same price! Everything happens for a reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160990 Thu, 17 May 2012 04:35:20 +0000 mediagirl 160990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow! I didn't realize there were areas still going through this type of market. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. </p> <p>We lost out on the first house we put an offer in on in Maryland. We waited our full 5 days after placing the offer and then the agent came back telling us the sellers had taken their home off the market! Apparently, they were out of the country and using the </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160969 Thu, 17 May 2012 01:30:34 +0000 Rosie Girl 160969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am so sorry! I hope that something better comes along quickly for you. Try to stay positive! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160966 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:43:55 +0000 ALittleP 160966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Witz: I'm so sorry! We were in your shoes less than a month ago. We had an offer that was accepted on a short sale in Ballard and lost it. We mourned for a day and then hit the "road" again to find something - we're on a tight timeline with a baby arriving in early August. We went out on a Saturday, fell in love with a house during an open house, made an offer and it was accepted. We close on Friday and move next week. We're now moving to Bellevue but actually love the house even more and feel like we're in a better school district. The commute to downtown will be a little further for DH but it's worth the gorgeous house that we'll be moving into...I promise that you'll find something even better!! I do know though that the housing market is tough - not a lot of good out there at the moment. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160965 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:41:44 +0000 Witz 160965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: It's nice to hear that things worked out so well for you! I hope we have similar luck. </p> <p>I know eventually things will work out. In the meantime, it's so frustrating! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160961 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:29:36 +0000 Witz 160961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.Someone: We have several friends that live up in Ravenna! We do like it and might be open to it eventually if we aren't successful in the next few months... We are currently in Capitol Hill though, and it would be hard to move from this area! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160957 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:12:30 +0000 red_seattle 160957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: If only it was in our price range, I'd be all over that. Would love to live in that neighborhood! But I'm sure a home in Maple Leaf wouldn't work out for us. </p> <p>@Witz: The market right now is a mess! Short sales are so hard and can drag and drag, the number of standard sales are few, ugh. We're buying a house in Burien, and it's been so hard to get the seller to negotiate on anything. We have an offer on a house we love near Des Moines that we like even more, but it's a short sale and 2 other offers have fallen through so we're hanging on until we absolutely have to pull out on that one, but we're not placing our bets on it (so we have the other offer going on the standard sale). We're so ready to be done with it all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160953 Wed, 16 May 2012 23:57:47 +0000 cyneswith 160953@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so sorry. I haven't been in your shoes, but I know I was nervous every day the house we're moving into was still listed on realty sites. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160933 Wed, 16 May 2012 22:19:45 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 160933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't believe they did that!!</p> <p>We lost out on the first house we put an offer on. It was a foreclosure/divorce situation, and we offered asking price. They accepted our offer, and before we could sign the paperwork someone came in and offered way above asking price... and had CASH. The bank took their offer over ours.</p> <p>I'm also in camp "everything happens for a reason". We ended up finding a similar house, in a better neighborhood/school district, for LESS than the foreclosure home and went under contract on our 1 year wedding anniversary.</p> <p>Your dream house will come along! I just know it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160891 Wed, 16 May 2012 21:17:01 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 160891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a house I can sell you in Maple Leaf :) Easy access to downtown on the 66. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160882 Wed, 16 May 2012 21:04:18 +0000 HLK208 160882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Argh, how frustrating! We had the same problems with difficult sellers (in the Seattle area too) but finally we found a house that met our criteria but we most definitely had to fight for it. So many times we questioned if it was the right choice because it felt like it shouldn't have taken everything out of us! Most of our savings, our time, our energy was exhausted by the time we closed. </p> <p>Keep searching, I know it's heartbreaking to have your mind and heart set on a home and picture your future family living there but there will be another house that will be even better! And who knows, maybe that other offer's financing won't work out, it's happened before :)</p> <p>Good luck!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160870 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:50:57 +0000 Mrs. Pen 160870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh my gosh that is so terrible!! I cannot believe they did that. So awful..</p> <p>We put an offer in on the perfect house, only to find out that the seller was collecting offer over the weekend and would choose one on Monday. We put in our best offer but it wasn't enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160851 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:17:30 +0000 pastemoo 160851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's awful! I've never tried to buy a house, but I hear it is pretty rough right now. So sorry! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160837 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:59:06 +0000 MamaMoose 160837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry that really sucks for you. I know how hard it can be to get attached to a place.. But given how the real estate market is right now the sellers may have been taking a big hit on the sale as it is, and may have even been underwater, so from their perspective they may have really needed every penny they could get. Like artbee Im in the everything happens for a reason camp. You'll find your perfect home soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160836 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:57:50 +0000 Mrs.Someone 160836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Witz - sorry to hear it :( Maybe try the Ravenna area? Still a great neighborhood, and probably a little less expensive than the others. Our first (rental) house was in Ravenna and we loved it. DH got downtown easily with the 70s busses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160833 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:54:01 +0000 Mrs. Cat in the Cradle 160833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our journey into real estate was a disaster. We fell in love with a short sale, and almost lost it multiple times. We even had to delay closing by a day because the mortgage insurance company refused to insure us at the last minute! With some extra help we were able to come up with 20% down, so we were able to tell them to go jump.</p> <p>The right house (with good sellers) will come along! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160831 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:51:51 +0000 Witz 160831@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.Someone: We're looking at Capitol Hill, Madison Valley, Queen Anne, etc. We're open to nicer parts of the CD and other places like that. Just somewhere that's nice enough to have kids and where we can get to downtown relatively easily, as we both work downtown. There is just *nothing* available right now, and that's why we were so so so excited that we were able to land one. Or at least we thought we had :'( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160804 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:35:22 +0000 Mrs.Someone 160804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thats awful! What neighborhood in Seattle are you looking? I've noticed there isn't a lot available right now... I'm in Sand Point and love it here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160799 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:31:05 +0000 banana 160799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so sorry you lost out on your home! :( I know how you feel cause we experienced something very similar when we bought ours 2 years ago. It's so hard to even find one that you like and once you find "THE house" you get outbid! We even found out that we were the highest bidder, but others would come in with ALL CASH! ARG!!! You will find your dream home eventually. I know it's SO frustrating but you will find your dream home and you will love it!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160798 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:03 +0000 heffalump 160798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh no! I'm in the everything happens for a reason camp, and maybe that home just wasn't meant to be yours and you'll find an even better one.</p> <p>We almost lost our house too. Our offer was accepted... and then they did the inspection. There was just too much wrong with it, including needing a new roof, and we didn't have the money to fix it up. So we had to say no and I was pretty devistated. We started looking for other houses, but then our realtor called and said they decided to lower the price for us, so we bought it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lost-our-home#post-160795 Wed, 16 May 2012 19:26:24 +0000 Witz 160795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband and I are trying to buy a home in Seattle and we just failed on yet another attempt to buy a home (third time). This time was particularly difficult... it was just barely above our price range, but for a variety of reasons (too many to list), we felt that it might be worth it to try to work something out to bridge the gap. It was a tortured decision, though, because not only did we have to ask our parents for a little cash to make it work (which we didn't want to do), but we had to decide whether this home would be worth postponing our plans to start TTC later this year for an additional year. In the end, we decided that this home would be such a great place (and neighborhood) to raise our future children that the wait would be worth it -- we did it for "them." So, we made an offer and after some back-and-forth and some very hard work by our agent, it was accepted! We were so ecstatic! We shared the news with our families (who had also become very emotionally involved, as they helped us to make the decision and come up with additional money to make the offer), while our agent revised our original offer to reflect the terms that we had agreed to with the seller. In that one-hour window, another buyer came along and put down a better offer, and the seller accepted it -- EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD ALREADY ACCEPTED OURS! No, it hadn't been signed yet, but literally they had the paperwork in hand and had already agreed to it when they received this other offer. They called us and said that "out of respect for us" they were letting us know that they had received a higher offer, I guess to see if we could match/better it. We had already put forth our best and final offer, so that wasn't an option. And there would have been no guarantee that they would not have turned around and given the other buyer the same opportunity. But really, if they had actually respected us, wouldn't they have honored the deal we agreed to? There are no words to describe how devastated and infuriated we are right now. We knew this was going to be a difficult journey, but I never expected something like this to happen.</p> <p>Has anyone else experienced the frustration of the current real estate market? </p>