Tic....tic....tic

We're hearing trickles of information about the status of the offer, most of it not helpful. Just noise really. But what we are hearing sounds promising.

Meanwhile we saw another house up for a short sale that looked really good. It's right next door to the property we had been looking at and it's up for a really good deal. We went and checked it out. It's a way better house overall, but of course is priced accordingly. Actually it would be a really phenomenal deal if we could get it for the asking price, but our realtor speculated they'd get offers above that, and given the fact that we'd still have to make a lot of expensive changes to get what we really want we eventually decided to let it go. We only had a couple of days before the deadline to make a decision, and it would have been complicated because we really are expecting the offer we've submitted on the first house to come back soon. So we'd then have to withdraw the new one, which would have complicated things at their end a lot, blah, blah, blah.

I may regret letting it go one day, but it just seemed like too big of a hassle to proceed, and ultimately we figured they'd get more for it than we really wanted to pay. We'll see about that.

What's odd is that our realtor, who has a great reputation around town, knew nothing about it. This would have been a no-brainer house to bring to our attention. Maybe he stopped looking on our behalf waiting for the offer to come back (we didn't, why should he?). Maybe he just didn't want the hassle of having to retract one of two offers -- he seemed pretty skittish about it when we asked him. All in all I'm kinda' underwhelmed by a number of little things that like that have transpired throughout this process.

Anyway, the clock is still ticking and nothing concrete is happening.