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Our realtor called today. She sounded very excited when I answered the phone. The wife and I were in the middle of a quick walk along Town Lake (I think that’s the lake we were on) which is really just the dammed up part of the Colorado River that flows through downtown Austin. The dog was enjoying smelling the guano (which is the proper name for bat shit) from under the Congress Ave. Bridge when the phone rang.

It seems than a couple that saw our house earlier in the week and was interested made an offer on another house, but it was too low for those home owners to even entertain, and since they really liked our house best, they’ve now made an offer in our house. (Their mom is paying for the house and she liked the one they made the first offer on — must be nice, huh?)

Anyways, so they made an offer on our house but it was about $15,000 off the asking price (which is a lot when you consider that we’re only listing it for $175,000 — yes, nice houses are that cheap in Fort Worth, TX, especially out near the edge of town). Sort of pissed me off that they were trying to really lowball us like that. The house is 2 years old and is a wonderful house… we put a lot of extras into it and it has no problems. We are asking a very reasonable price… just enough to get out from under it – we won’t make any money at 175, but they lowballed us anyways, and our realtor recommended we counter-offer at $172,500, which is ‘just enough to say we’re willing to sell the house, but not enough to give it away too easily.’

So that’s what we did.

It’s exciting… especially when you consider that we like to think of our house as one of the better ones on the street and the average time on the market for homes in our old neighborhood has been streching 75 days and ours has only been on the market for a month, tops.

Oh well, I’m not going to get too excited till we have a closing date, but this could be just the thing we need to get our shit together to buy a great house here in Austin. I love this town.