So far, so good

The reports on the house came back encouraging. It was last sold just over ten years ago. It has a moderately new roof and an updated chimney. The addition is all retrofitted (no shear walls, but at least cripple walls) so we'd only have to retrofit the older front part. I'm not crazy about the yard--there's a huge tree in the neighbor's property that shades a lot of "our"yard, which kind of throws a wrench in my plans for a vegetable garden. I'm also not sure what the heck we'd do with all the space, except lose our cat. ;) Seriously, we could have a guest room, an office, a piano room, and put a pool table in the family room along with a bar and a flat panel. Considering we get by with 750 sq feet right now.... Also, since buying this house would stretch our budget for the next few months, we wouldn't have a lot of furniture until January, which would be kind of funny, I guess.

The agent for the sellers said that they've had one bid so far that was $20k below asking. They countered at $10k below and the buyers walked away. Their agent thinks she has them to a point where they're more realistic about the market--it ain't 2006 anymore, kids. We'll see--we're going for dinner in the neighborhood tomorrow, so we'll make the final "do we want to bid" decision then.