Casa de Hale

Welcome to Casa de Hale. This will come as a suprise to you but we finally closed on a house. Since early October of last year, we've had an offer on a house. The first house was a foreclosure that had been on the market for over a year. We decided to make an offer on it and the same day so does everyone else in Dallas. Needless to say we were out bid and our hearts were heavy.

The second home, pictured above, was an ordeal as well. The home was in pre-foreclosure. Our first offer sat at the bank through the Thanksgiving holiday but all the feedback from the listing agent was "we're close", whatever that means. Well, it turns out that we weren't close and the offer was declined without a counter offer. Very little explanation was given for the reason why the offer was declined and no explanation was offered on why there was no counter offer. Our hearts were broken again and we decided not to even look at the market until we returned from our vacation in early March.

Although our intention was to wait until March to look at other houses, we kept stalking the Victor house. We drove by the house, made an anonymous call to the listing agent to inquire about the house and were told, "Yes, it's for sale. There was an offer on it, but it was declined." Ashley was H.O.T and I mean H.O.T. I mean to give us no explanation about why we were denied and then tell some supposedly random caller that, sure the house is for sale. So, we called our realtor and decided to make a second offer, this was early January. A month and a half later we're closing. We're still not really sure on why the bank didn't accept the first offer, especially without even making a counter offer, but it all worked out in the end.

So, because of the ups and downs we've had, we decided not to tell anyone about the second offer we made. We assumed it would be declined again and sure were happy when it wasn't. Hope you'll come and visit us sometime, but not too soon!