The Suspense is Killing Me!

So we went house hunting yesterday. We found a few houses that we were interested in. We actually made our frst official offer tonight. This house is in Alameda and is near one of the best schools in Alameda. It's a bedroom 1.5 bath with a big deck off the back. The biggest drawback is that it is on a busy street. The noise is not really that bad and they have double-paned windows on the only bedroom facing the street. We wouldn't really need to do too many renovations and it has an extra "room" in the basement with a half bath. Most of the places we have seen only have 1 bath and we would need to do a lot of extra renovations. I'm really nervous. We were told when we saw the house yesterday that they already received an offer from someone on Friday that had just lost a bidding war on another house. We found out today that they received another offer today, so the seller has 3 offers on a house that went on the market less than a week ago.

This is the first time that a buyer has ever written a letter about themselves and it sounded like the owner is a single mom with daughter who is moving out of California. Since she wrote a letter about her experience living in the house, I wrote one about us. I basically told her that we just got married in October and that we have lived in our apartment for over 5 years (longer than she's owned her home.) If this works, I'll let you know. So we left a message with the selling agent that we would send the preapproval letter tomorrow morning and send a deposit check. She confirmed that she received our offer and asked that we send in the preapproval letter and check in the morning. I'm taking that as good news because if our offer was too low, they would have said, "Don't bother," right? We think that the other offers might be higher, but I'm hoping the fact that we don't have a contingency to sell a current house will help our offer. I guess you never know around here. If we get this house, it will be a small miracle. Guess we'll find out in the next 48 hours.

I have so much nervous energy! I was talking to my coworker and he said that the house hunting is the fun part. He said that selling the house is the worst because you are just waiting for someone else to make an offer. Well, the owner of the house we just made an offer on doesn't seem to have too much trouble... 3 offers in less than 4 days. Please pray for us and cross your fingers! And if you know of a woman who lives in Alameda with her daughter who is moving out of state, please put in a good word for us!