Offer War

Knowing what we do about houses we have a good idea of what a house needs when we waltz thru it. We know more than most 20-something's because our family and friends work in different fields and it allows us to estimate what needs to be done. 

We made an offer on a house in Milford. I really love it. The house and lot are bigger than we've seen, and as reasonable as the house price was listed it needs some possibly expensive things done to it. 

Electrical, even though I have a journeyman in the family, you still need to pay him, and if the electrical is old and cloth covered it will be a total rehaul of the system. 

Furnace, that's self explained. Those are expensive. The install is expensive. Blah! 

Looking at houses is supposed to be fun, well I don't know at what budget that happens but with ours it's yet to be fun. Day dreaming about where things go, how to recycle things into usable items to reduce cost. It's frustrating. 

We made our offer, the bank countered with 1,800 less than their asking. We don't want to lose this house but we also can't go over a certain point if we do have to replace or redo things. 

We will hear back tomorrow more than likely and will know the next move.