I tried to buy my sister's duplex (that she is a tenant in) earlier this year. They never got to an open house. Listed Thursday, contract by Tuesday am with multiple bids.

I need my next job to be Mon - Fri with very limit overtime and no weekend on-call. I do not like the anxiety of having to take work calls anytime. My phone going off at odd time means family emergency to my lizard brain.

The house was on the market for several months last year, and came down several times. Even so I was thinking it was a wee bit high.

How do people get to see these places? We have jobs and kids, and I think it is occupied. And I worked yesterday and today. I think I need a more aggressive agent.

I feel like it was a mistake of the listing agent not to see of they could get more bids. But it might be the seller who would prefer a bird in the hand over an open house, esp if it was sitting on the market last year.

Weirdly my area is dead right now. Nothing really going on the market and homes are languishing. Sales are down 12% from Feb last year. I still lost out on a house of my dreams-- literally, I had an extensive dream about that f#%^ing house last night.

If anyone would like to buy a house in a really boring area of Washington, I could definitely make you a deal.

And I'm hate watching Love It or List It, knowing there's no way in hell there's that many super clean and finished houses on the market in the buyer's price range and neighborhood. Who are you trying to kid, David!

Here in Los Angeles there are investors that will place a bid on a house without even getting a full tour. If they think they can sit on it and flip it in the long run, then it gets a cash offer. It makes buying a house for any sort of deal in the here very difficult because anything that pops up on foreclosure or short sale that would be at a bargain is almost guaranteed to get a cash offer.

Just took my father for a semi-emergency walk to let my mother cool down, and got a lamp fixed in the bargain! So that worked out for everyone.

And I'm hate watching Love It or List It, knowing there's no way in hell there's that many super clean and finished houses on the market in the buyer's price range and neighborhood

See, I always think about how "Location, location, location"--there may be a magic house that is in their price range that they want, but how often is it not ANYWHERE like their neighborhood--he's always like "It's only 20 minutes away!" and that's super far! I mean, when I was looking for a place I had about a mile radius, maybe...because I wanted one specific neighborhood and that's how big it is.

(That said, I still love Love It or List It and Property Brothers way more than House Hunters, even if they're always SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to find knob-and-tube wiring or that an integral part of her design is removing a load-bearing wall)