No way could I get a bargain. Not in my community. Homes go almost immediately. I looked at a place last week, it was beautiful. Was listed on Friday afternoon. I looked Saturday morning. That afternoon the house was sold.
I think I only got this place because it was listed Superbowl Sunday morning. No one interested in looking My agent was able to show it to me that afternoon. I put an offer on it right away giving them their asking price. I thought ever so slightly over priced to fair. Probably closer to fair as I will need to do nothing to it except maybe paint. It has a brand new deck with that plastic wood so no maintenance. Deck is probably close to $10K alone. Certainly not a bargain. But the place I looked at last week was probably $30K over at least and went right away.
At least I think I got it. I just got notification that the hose went contingent at 9:38 EST. Have not heard from my agent but he goes to bed early. Hopefully I will hear good news in the morning. Lots of minor negotiations going on. I cannot imagine that would have gone through that if they had a counter on the table unless something came in this evening.