So today some buyers I've been working with finally got their signed contract!! Yeah! We can finally start moving forward! We've been waiting for the contract so that we can order the appraisal and so the buyers can access their 401K funds. All in all, its been about two weeks since we submitted our initial offer. Actually Monday the listing agent finally put the house into pending. (Fortunately, the house is a real fixer and I don't think anyone else was brave enough to put the sweat equity into it!)
Anyway, here's the kicker: The listing agent for another house we made an offer for called and said his buyer backed out. This was the first phone contact I had with this agent BTW. I could have easily "forgot" to tell my buyers this tidbit, but of course I wasn't going to do that. I proceeded to call my clients and tell them the house that they initially wanted the most was available and we were being given first dibs. The wife seemed a bit excited and opted to call her husband at work. She called me right back and told me they wanted to proceed with our original escrow we had just opened today. *Big Sigh!* Thank goodness I am thinking.
I am very excited to be moving forward for numerous reasons including the listing agent has been the most accomodating and communicative to me. We are moving forward with hopefully a quick escrow. 17 days if their title/escrow can handle it. Here we come!!
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