How We Got Our Home Offer Accepted in a Crazy Aggressive Seller’s Market

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We know how hard it can be to get a home offer accepted. We’ve been shopping for the better part of two years and the real estate market has been more aggressive than a cornered badger.

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To be honest, when the pandemic started in early 2020 and the economy abruptly halted, I expected one outcome to be a buyer’s real estate market as a silver lining for us in an otherwise crappy year.

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Like any other market prediction I might have made at that time, I was dead wrong. With fewer and fewer properties for sale being bid up by weary but ready buyers, it can be awfully difficult to come out on top.

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Thankfully, after a handful of close calls and missed opportunities over the last 20 months, we finally landed a house with lakefront property that should work quite well as our latest “forever home.” This is the story of how we made it happen.

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We are, without question, seeing a seller’s market in 2021. Inventory is down drastically, and the lack of homes on the market has shifted the supply and demand curve sharply to the demand side.

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Our Home Buying Journey

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How We Got Our Home Offer Accepted in a Crazy Aggressive Seller’s Market

We know how hard it can be to get a home offer accepted. We’ve been shopping for the better part of two years and the real estate market has been more aggressive than a cornered badger.

To be honest, when the pandemic started in early 2020 and the economy abruptly halted, I expected one outcome to be a buyer’s real estate market as a silver lining for us in an otherwise crappy year.

Like any other market prediction I might have made at that time, I was dead wrong. With fewer and fewer properties for sale being bid up by weary but ready buyers, it can be awfully difficult to come out on top.

Thankfully, after a handful of close calls and missed opportunities over the last 20 months, we finally landed a house with lakefront property that should work quite well as our latest “forever home.” This is the story of how we made it happen.

We are, without question, seeing a seller’s market in 2021. Inventory is down drastically, and the lack of homes on the market has shifted the supply and demand curve sharply to the demand side.

A Seller’s Market

Our Home Buying Journey

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