although admittedly i'm a bit late for this month...
I guess the most interesting part of this month has been a call back from the vendor about that house we found. We had originally been pushed into offering 1.3m more than 6 weeks ago and it was rejected. About 10 days ago, we got a call back to say they would accept 1.3 now (since they hadn't found anyone else willing to pay, surprise surprise). I stressed that I would not be interested unless they were willing to accept something less than our previous offer which the agent indicated was the case and that the owner really wanted to sell so he could move the money to other parts of his business. I wanted to take a second look at the house and found it just as lovely if not more so. It is much nicer than our current new and modern house, bigger, on larger land (almost double the land size) and in a better neighbourhood.
When we got down to negotiating, of course the agent went straight to our previous offer as if we never had the discussion of negotiating for something less. I had to repeat again that that ship had sailed. So we offered $20K less. So the agent said he would talk to the owner and try to get an answer by the end of the day but he urged us to consider offering higher which we rejected.
Anyway, he called back and said the owner was disappointed (of course) but would consider it and give us an answer on Monday. My hopes were a little high but still expected some delay. Anyway, lo and behold, Monday came along and the agent rings to tell me the exact opposite of what he had been saying. The owner's wife did not want to accept anything less than our previous offer and that they would be willing to take the house off the market and relist again later. So they were not 'ready to sell' as the agent would have me believe and the agent admitted the owner was now saying something totally different. We were disappointed as well as the market was lower and we also have to sell our own house.
So a little while has passed now and the house is still there and we still love it. We're thinking of going for it and getting it as it fits the bill for all our household and there aren't any other houses that come close. I will most likely ring tomorrow to discuss.
On a different note, my lovely princess will be turning 3 soon and we are planning a small celebration at one of the play centres. My sister in law has also revealed she is 5 weeks pregnant with the second child so that should be interesting. She is due next February and we have 4 other friends who are due throughout the remainder of the year. One of our friends had faith in the so called 'pencil test' which predicted my sister in law would only have one child and i was to have three and a few others would have girls for their second child. Well it appears it will be wrong on a number of counts now!
work wise, things are going reasonably well. I have good rapport with the business and have someone who is buddying with me to learn the ropes. I will also be going back to full time in July in preparation to pay off this mortgage that we may soon have (fingers crossed that we have made the right decision). We also have our retirement plans to work towards, a few more investment properties and maybe retire to run a bed and breakfast near the beach somewhere, ahhhh sweet dreams!
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