Rossmoor Neighborhood but house back to a flood channel?

[smallkitty00]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Kitty, you can make your offer before seeing the house for whatever price you want. Simply consider making the offer contingent on your inspection and approval of the home's condition. Some sellers want to know you are serious, which you are. It is not hard to do.

Yeah I know it's not hard. I already submitted an offer with bank statements & PA from BofA but they want me to cross-qualify with their own lender. I already have second thought about the location so I decided to move on. My husband thinks it's ridiculous we have to spend time doing that.

[smallkitty00]

Originally Posted by russlancea

I know the feeling. How many homes are you seeing a week? I know, it's not that--I'm sure you're checking listings on your own too. All the time and the emotional rollercoast!

Hubby and I were tired of looking and being outbid. Real estate is some sort of game. I personally don't mind the search, but he was fed up. Years passed before we looked at buying again and this time, it was at a point where he and I were outgrowing our apt, so we were going to move anyway.

The only way he and I got our house was doing what I had refused to do--have the selling agent also represent me as the buyer's agent. It was an exclusive sale, so no bidding war or anything. It was just the sellers and me.

My agent does a lot of door knocking. I think that's how he came across these very private sellers. They didn't want people parading through their home. When the sellers were ready to buy, the agent remembered me and called me up. It was a very unconventional deal that wow, worked out in the end for all parties, but if it wasn't for this agent, I think I would still be renting.

Hang in there.

We looked since Oct 2013. We were in escrow once but the appraissal came in too low. I'm glad we didn't buy that property. Then we stopped in April 2014 as we welcomed our 2nd baby. We started again in August 2014. We search everyday. We viewed lots of properties. I have gone through a few agents. I have one now who has been knocking door for me. I was involved in a few "dual agent" just to get in like u said. It's just too emotionally drained looking. I have a 2.5 yo & a 1 yo & we both work full time as well...

[russlancea]

Wow, just working and being mom to little kids is hard enough. Add the house search and that compounds the stress ten-fold.

Just hang in there and try not to get too emotionally attached. I know it's hard. Sounds like you have a good agent who is going door to door and trying other approaches to find a house for you.

My agent had to go door to door to find my sellers a house...in the neighborhood they wanted. They were very picky, picky people. He said he knocked on 100s of houses and followed-up on some who were thinking of selling. Well, one guy was finally ready to sell, just a week before my real estate contract was about to expire. Husband and I gave the sellers 4 months to find a house and if they didn't after that time, the contract would've just died and I would've been at at square one.

Your agent will find something...

In the meantime, the childhood years beginning at 2 were the best for me. It just got so much easier, I think, from that point on. The kids are so cute, so enjoy them .

[homeowner411]

I think I would spend some time actually looking at the flood control channel you're interested in living next to. I lived near a flood control channel/bike trail in Rancho Cucamonga, but I moved away. Friends living next to it had various complaints you could ask neighborhood residents about: noise from bicycle riders, joggers and others using the trail. In the channel live rodents and spiders climbed up the walls with ease--and insects--especially mosquitoes and flies. Ever present was the smell from trash and pools of un-draining run-off water in the channel. Undocumented laborers and also homeless people had been cited living along the trail, in culverts and underpasses. People on the trail could see into house windows and they pulled up on the walls to look into back yards, causing worries about possible home intrusion, burglary, vandalism, and graffiti. Last but not least were the teenagers and druggies who hunkered down to sell and do drugs--then throw objects, bottles, rocks, weapons, paraphernalia, etc. into yards to get rid of evidence, or just for fun.