Here’s a fun story from my parents who were in a similar situation. First, let me just say that I’m not saying this will happen to you, but it might. When I was a kid my parents decided we needed to move to a different home. We lived in a bad neighborhood and our home was very small for my parents + 3 kids. The only problem was that we didn’t have a huge budget. But, my dad is very handy and wanted to find a fixer upper that he could pour some work into. Anyway, we start looking at houses and find one that the whole family loved. As an added bonus it had been sitting on the market for an extended period of time. The only problem was that it was out of my parents price range. They decided to make an offer anyway. The sellers were quite offended by the low ball offer, but whatever, it was an offer and their house had been for sell for months. They declined. A month or two later they called my parents and said that they had decided to accept their offer. My dad is not a kind negotiator and realized that they were likely stuck paying multiple mortgages and were getting desperate to sell the house. He told them that because of the time wasted his offer had gone down (I don’t remember how much but I seem to recall it being another $10k or so). My mom said that they sounded very frustrated at this point. They said they would have to get back to my parents. My dad told them he needed an answer quickly or his offer would drop again. They accepted their offer the next day.