Always, wilco. Theirs and mine, both of whom were on the ball. Just lousy timing, I guess. That and a certain amount of greed on my part. I COULD have accepted an offer and gone into escrow before I went househunting this weekend, but I wanted to let my place show over the weekend. That was my fatal flaw. Good decision as a seller, bad decision as a buyer. The offer I was already going to accept was raised by $6,000 when the buyer heard there were other offers. (Poor guy; don't tell him... I was accepting him because he was stable and ready to close and didn't ask for any financial help, even though he was the lowest $ figure.)

Hope so, SINS, but I really wanted this one; it was a very mild fixer-upper the seller thought was a major fixer-upper and a steal at the price. The So Cal market is horribly tight right now. There's not a single decent property on the market I can afford at the moment, and prices are going up daily.