me and the old lady made an offer on a cute little 98 year old bungalow the next city over, walking distance to both of our jobs. offer was definitely over asking and the crib was gonna need a fair amount of work but I was able to do most, if not all of it, over time. Well, turns out the boner sellers agent was trying to start a bidding war. We were the only bid but they called our realtor after 4 days to say that they aren't going to go less than 30k over asking price, inspections waved.
Good luck to whoever buys its and can't do their own work and has to shell out 70k to contractors for removal of asbestos pipes, roof, carpet, vinyl siding, and repair earthquake cracks. Interest rates on mortgages have gone from 2.6% to 5.9% in 3 months. could have bought a house that cost 70k more and had lower payments with that interest rate.
glad this rental is a good enough spot.