Getting Real (Estate)

[Radar]

So I made an offer on another house today. It's 1900 square feet with a pool in the back, but it has a fence around the pool. It was built in '69 just like me. It's a 4 bedroom 2 bath with a fireplace, wet bar, granite countertops in the kitchen, etc. and it's in a decent neighborhood. They're asking $344,800. It doesn't have as many fancy upgrades as the last one, but it's very nice. The only drawback is there is an apartment complex directly behind the house. So as my daughter is growing up, the neighbors might be ogling her or my wife. That would make me uncomfortable. The other house has a pre-school directly behind the house so I'm not sure if it would be noisy during the daytime.

I put the offer in, and then when I got back to my job, I got a call that the place my wife and I really wanted (described in the previous pages) is available because the people fell out of escrow. I found out the offer they made was $450k. As much as I'm dying for this house, I'm not going to go over $400k period. I told my realtor to try to get me and my wife into the house.

I called my wife in Vietnam and asked her which house we should get and she said the other one....she hasn't seen the one I put an offer in on today.

I'm a little scared I'll get both. I don't want to come off like a jerk if I get them both and have to tell the guy I made an offer with today that I'm not interested.