Offer #3

I'm not sure I ever posted the outcome of offer #2: they decided to take their house off the market because the work transfer that had prompted the move had fallen through. Boooo!

After much deliberation, we decided to put in an offer on one of the houses we saw on Sunday. We refer to it as "the cathouse" because it is currently inhabited by two cats (in addition to the owners). This was how we came to distinguish it from the ten other places we saw; they blur together really quickly. (Other places were: the jungle house, the bad carpeting house, the busy street house, etc.)

The emotional process of buying a house is actually pretty complex: you need to get attached enough to a place that you are willing to put in an offer, but you can't get too attached because it may or may not work out and you don't want to get too invested and pay more for it than you really mean to.

We'll see. As we know, anything can happen.