My husband and I put in offers on over 20 properties in TV in the last few months. All were outbid beyond what my piggington trained senses could understand. A couple times we ran into houses that had offers accepted before hitting the market. Then one day at our favorite park we noticed some action in a house down the street. We had looked at the house previously as a short sale and the price was just over what we were looking for. We wandered over and behold, it was an agent from a broker who was changing the key code and taking over the listing since it had just foreclosed. We told him that we wanted the house. He wrote us up an offer immediately and turned it in to the bank even though the house was not listed or in any way ready for sale. We kept along our way, putting in other offers, but 3 weeks later the broker called to let us know that our offer was accepted! They went ahead and listed the house, but put on the listing that it had an offer already. I know that other offers came in but the bank had already accepted ours and took the others as back ups. Have I compromised my morals? I don’t see how: I mostly lucky to be in the park that day and aggressive enough to go ask a guy in suit what he was up to. Now I am getting a great house, bigger and nicer than I’ve ever lived in, for less than I’ve been paying in rent these last few piggington fueled years.
