Let the negotiations continue........

We put an offer in on a house Tuesday morning. It's a "for sale by owner" (FSBO) home and, well, I heard this shrieking sound and then a dull thud. I think it was the owners, all the way from their new home in California. When they recovered, they came back with a modest counter-offer. To which we replied: "NOT good enough!". We're slowly eeking our way up, they are even more slowly eeking down. Tomorrow should be the day that tells all as we are both giving our "final" offers --- for the 2nd time.

I have to say, dealing with a FSBO has been... interesting. (Sorry Stremmel-Leards!) There is not that protective realtor shield, keeping us from being exposed to all the seller's counter-offer reasoning and rhetoric. We are experiencing firsthand that people can be so darned attached to the emotions they have tied up into a house. All that business about raising their family, lovely neighborhood, wonderful house... As Charlie Brown's teacher always said: "Mwah, mwah, mwah mwah mwah". Too bad we are so very, very stubborn.