Crushed!

Didn't someone tell me we are in a buyer's market? Didn't someone tell me to be patient because there are SO many houses out there and we will easily find our "perfect" house? Well, my response to that is WRONG!!!!! We put our offer in on our "perfect" house. After waiting more than 24 hours for their counter offer, we returned with our counter. This is where we made our huge mistake. Another 24 hours had passed and we were finally told that there was ANOTHER offer on the table. Had we taken their original counter, the house would be ours! But no... in this "buyer's market" we found ourselves involved in a bidding war! Of course the seller's realtor said we were neck and neck. Unfortunately the other buyers were working with no contingency. This forced us to offer much more than we anticipated paying. But we were sure that we had won the bid by quite a bit and this would cancel out the contingency issue. After another grueling 24 or so hours we learned that the other buyer's were the new owners of MY "perfect" house! I was completely crushed!!!! We had done almost everything right. We had been kind of patient, we had looked at the house more than once, I even walked the neighborhood and stopped to quiz a nanny about the neighborhood. I compare this feeling to being in love with a boy that loves someone else. He chose the other girl!

I have gone through the mourning of our loss. Now it is time to move on. We are looking and looking and looking at other houses for sale. There is nothing even close to comparable to my "perfect house." I hope more houses pop up in the springtime. We have to decide if we are going to buy now or wait and rent???? Decisions, Decisions!!!