Getting Back on the Horse

Yesterday, I met with a NEW realtor.  She came highly recommened by a work friend of mine who just bought a house himself (during the time that we were battling with the developer).  She has an exisiting relationship with one of the higher-ups in his department, so its a great referral.  He also mentioned that she enjoyed haggling when it came to price, which makes me feel better about our realtor actually working for us!

I wasn't hugely impressed with her at first, as I thought she and I would spend a little time discussing in greater details things that Adam and I liked and disliked in houses.  We had spoken briefly the day before and she had  run a list of places that met my initial criteria.  I was procrastinating at work earlier in the day and had a list of 5 places that have come to market in the last month that I thought were worthwhile.  All 5 that I had selected were on her list, which I found encouraging.  Three of them are located around 16th & Montrose, so we are going to look at them this afternoon.  One of them recently had about 40K shaved off the price so it is no in our price range.  My only grumble about this woman so far is that she likes walking to see the listings, which is annoying for me, because it is much harder to slip away from the office to house hunting if I have to tack on 20min each way to walk to the neighborhood where we are looking.  Or, I have to wait for the bus, or pay for a cab.  It was nice that our old realtor was always picking us up on the way to see houses. 

Stay tuned!