Daughter in Cincinnati had similar experience...

She made offers on 6 houses before having her offer accepted (closing is set for early July).

The pattern had been:
- a house goes on the market
- first day on the market, 30-40 showings would happen, pretty much nonstop 7am-9pm.
- Seller would accept offers for 48 hrs and then pick one. Feedback was that sellers were consistently getting 6-10 offers to choose from.
- daughter was offering 8-10% over asking price, with pre approved loan and 20% down, and not getting them.

It was quite discouraging - very glad she finally got one.

In response to this post by Alan11

Posted: 06/17/2020 at 10:49AM

I had no idea how hot the housing market was in Roanoke County until we -- Alan11 06/17/2020 10:24AM

I have a realtor friend in the NRV and said May was his best month ever. ** -- RUHokie 06/17/2020 12:16PM

Yeah, realtors play this game a lot -- MrBayAreaHokie 06/17/2020 12:01PM

FWIW, probably means it's not a good time to buy a house. ** -- BG Hokie 06/17/2020 12:01PM

Very true. More people who have to buy now than there are sellers. ** -- Femoyer Hokie 06/17/2020 12:20PM

The desirable homes in my neighborhood... -- No1Hokie 06/17/2020 11:27AM

There was a house in my neighborhood that had sat vacant for 10 years -- HokieNoVA 06/17/2020 1:53PM

We're not really planning to move, but I was looking at houses in -- 4dhokies 06/17/2020 10:59AM

Daughter in Cincinnati had similar experience... -- Rinoki21 06/17/2020 10:49AM

That sounds just like when we purchased our home in 2006. -- MP4VT2004 06/17/2020 11:58AM

Where in Cincinnati if I may ask? Just curious, since I did notice... -- cincyhokie 06/17/2020 11:23AM

Deer Park ** -- Rinoki21 06/17/2020 9:22PM

I'm in the city, and houses are moving at a crazy pace where I live. -- reestuart 06/17/2020 10:41AM

Yep. Any house that is still on the realtor app after 14 days seems to be -- Alan11 06/17/2020 10:56AM

I was surprised the house across the street took 2 days to have an under -- hoosnowahokie 06/17/2020 10:43AM

I know that we could sell our house in no time, but the problem would -- reestuart 06/17/2020 10:55AM

Budget is our #1 problem. Our budget is 200k-250k which in SW Roanoke -- Alan11 06/17/2020 11:04AM

We're pretty dead set on staying in our current neighborhood, so the -- reestuart 06/17/2020 11:08AM

Makes sense to me. When I retired we moved -- HokieR 06/17/2020 11:21AM

We could definitely stand something bigger and one with another bathroom. -- reestuart 06/17/2020 11:38AM

Understand. We are limited to Hidden Valley. 12 year old is established -- Alan11 06/17/2020 11:11AM

People do live in one and go to the other. I've known quite -- Razor4VT 06/17/2020 12:03PM

Thanks. We are in the process of finding out if living in CS and going to -- Alan11 06/17/2020 12:40PM

Yep, we sold and rented for a year. Had to have the money on hand -- hoosnowahokie 06/17/2020 10:56AM

So you had to move twice? ** -- Brown Water 06/17/2020 11:01AM

1 1/2 times. We didn't unpack a lot of stuff. -- hoosnowahokie 06/17/2020 11:10AM

Bought my first house in West Salem 1984. Interest rate was 13%. -- Stork 06/17/2020 10:36AM

SHUN! ** -- FfxStationHokie 06/17/2020 10:29AM

Daughter in Cincinnati had similar experience...

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