It just occurs to me whether relevant or not to advise you to protect properties that you are interested in a ltttle more. I am going to swallow my pride and say that you are looking at “special” houses (sdrealtor knows what I mean).We have all seen you work very hard to locate soemthing right for you. Don’t give it away.
There is an open house for the home featured in this thread this Sunday from 1-4. Don’t get the idea that the price for this house or any house is set in stone. You seem to be saying you would have snapped it up at 2.5m if you knew about. It might go for something close to that. You never know. If you don’t have reason to wipe it off your list, watch it. If you are fairly interested, be ready to act if the price gets near where you want it or just write a 2.5M offer.I know this is improbable. From the other posts it sounds like a little more assertiveness by you and your agent wouldn’t hurt you.That is all I am trying to say. This obviously goes for all properties. Just a reminder, we are in a falling market,this is a flipper(whether they planned it or not) and flippers and everyone else, tend to be dropping prices, your 200k increase example not withstanding