They Accepted-

As of about 45 minutes ago, the owners of the home we put an offer on two days ago have accepted!! We spent all week with our realtor and looked at about 45 homes in north San Antonio. On friday morning (basically our last day to look with her and we hadn't found anything we really loved), I decided to check Craigslist. I had been checking it every week or so for the past couple of months to get an idea of what was out there. I clicked on a particular listing that interested me and was stunned at what I saw! They were very motivated sellers trying to get out of their home because the husband was on his way to Afghanistan. The pictures were just what we'd been looking for, it was less than a year old, it was in our price range, and it included all the stainless steel kitchen appliances, granite counters, washer and dryer, flatscreen in the master bedroom, security system and sprinkler system only to name a few. I was ecstatic! I called the owner and set up an appointment for that afternoon. We didn't let our realtor know because we just didn't know exactly what would happen and at that point we hadn't signed a contract with our realtor for her to exclusively represent us. Well, we went and saw it and just when we walked in and were standing in the entry, Brent and I both knew it was the house we had been wanting and looking for all week. The only problem was that the owners were trying to get out of their contract with their realtor thus who would pay our realtor? We didn't want to get stuck with realtor fees! After a long weekend of going back and forth and a few very intense conversations with our realtor because she tried desperately to get us to buy another house, we worked everything out with her. We made our offer on Monday, they countered yesterday, we came back this morning with a compromise and they accepted this afternoon. PHEW! My goodness! We are SO excited for this! And the best part is: part of our negotiating was for some of the furniture in the house that is less than a year old! Brent did great at negotiating and it was really fun to see him put into real life some of that "stuff" he's been learing for the past two years in MBA school. I love the furniture and we're getting it at a third of the price that they bought if for less than a year ago. Awesome, huh? Now we have to just do all that stuff to close while we are in Utah. Should be pretty busy. I'll write more later and sorry for the lack of pictures lately especially of Brookie. More updates soon!