So, I’m a first-time home buyer, and let me tell you about this wild experience I had trying to snag a condo. This place had been sitting on the market for a whopping 220 days, so when my partner and I decided to make an offer, we thought we had a pretty good shot. Our offer was lower than the asking price, but it actually exceeded the prices of three similar units that had sold in the same building in the past month. The agent had basically told us that they weren’t expecting any other offers, so we felt pretty confident.
But here’s where things get interesting – after we submitted our offer, the sellers and their agent went completely MIA on us. No communication at all until the very last day of our offer, when the agent hits us up saying they received another offer over the weekend. They wouldn’t give us any details about this mysterious offer, and they wouldn’t even reject our offer outright. They just left us hanging, saying the sellers would make a decision by that night.
Fast forward to one hour before our offer expired – it’s 11 pm and the agent finally reaches out to let us know that the sellers had decided to go with the other offer. And get this, a whole week later, that same condo is still listed as active!
I mean, seriously, is this some kind of messed up game? Are people really out here ghosting potential buyers instead of just countering their offers? It’s like we were left in the dark, and then suddenly left out in the cold. It’s enough to make you wonder if this is just how things go in the real estate world. But hey, you live and you learn, right?