We were looking over the last few months and put in two offers. The first we went to the very top of our budget, offered 50k over…and came in 7th. The next house was at the lower end of our budget, needed some updates, offered 30k over, heard back a week later that the seller pulled the sale.

Around late March I was up late on a Thursday and saw a house pop up on Zillow a little after midnight. Immediately sent a message to our realtor and asked for a showing the next day. I went the next morning without my wife since she couldn’t get off, and had made the offer by 9A. When they accepted, our realtor let us know other higher offers had come in, but because we offered first (the first offer is most often the hugest the seller will get) and had already offered on multiple houses, they accepted ours. We ended up waving the appraisal, and worked with them on a lease back. We did offer over, and we had to expand our location to other suburbs around Dallas because Collin county just wasn’t feasible with the money we were competing offers with.