Looks like I'm finally getting a house! Not exactly how I wanted to do it, but at this point, I'm like whatever, I don't want to do this any more. Sellers had it listed for 420k, we offered 414k with an appraisal contingency that the appraisal has to meet the purchase price. The appraisal came in at 400k, and so we countered at 400k or gave them the option to rebut it. They didn't want to do the rebuttal as it was a waste of time, in their opinion. They countered at 410k - we said no, because that's $10k extra we have to come up with out of pocket and would mess our loan up. We offered 404k, still no. We offered 405k, still no. They finally accepted an offer of 407k on the condition that they're taking the furniture they were previously going to leave so they can turn around and sell it. And not only are they not taking ALL the furniture, they're only taking part of the furniture that is a set... Like c'mon, really? Probably gonna get a hundred bucks or maybe a couple hundred if it sells. The whole time, they're like basically acting like we are screwing them over and telling us how the agent has to cut into their commission to go down on price, and how they have this other interested person/couple that literally calls them every day to see if the deal fell through because they really want to live in the subdivision!
Left a really, really sour taste in my mouth, but am glad we are finally getting a house we want.
