FLU, I like the LEH reference. The only difference is that you weren’t already renting a banking stock and you can ride it out in your banking stock.
My point is that the perfect time to lowball is when nobody else in their right mind would. I keep saying lowball, truth is that 10% off ask plus 3% closing costs isn’t really that aggressive of a lowball, however in this case the ask was fire sale low and two months ago it would have gotten a dozen offers in a few days, turns out with all the distractions, I’m the first to look at it.
If they say no or or I am outbid, so be it. But if I see the inside (have only looked through the ground floor windows thus far), like it, and buy it, it is very far from a stretch, mortgage is “rentlike” and I can keep living like a rockstar with 70% of my income earmarked as “disposable.” Please, don’t worry about ole TG, I did the heavy lifting and rode this thing pretty far, if in retrospect I got off a little early, it wont affect my ability to cover my bar tab.
My only worry is that my patience may have landed me in yard work hell, it is way too big of a piece of property and is fully landscaped. It’s borderline “riding mower” big. Patience may end up biting me in the arse, last year I was almost content plopping down 400k for a micro lot that could barely accomodate a spa, now I’ll be sentenced to a sizable fraction of an acre, egads!!!
