The buyers of this Ventura home, started off looking at properties in Santa Barbara and we found several that they liked a lot. We wrote several Santa Barbara offers and "things" just kept happening...short sale messes, sellers deciding not to sell etc. Other properties were just too small or run down for the amount of money they were asking here in town.
One of my buyers was working in Ventura throughout our property search and she ended up getting to know the town a bit.
One weekend they went to some open houses and the next thing I know, they called me to ask if I can write an offer! Not being a member of the Ventura Multiple Listing Service, I said that I would have to do some research. Then they told me they had already found the house they wanted, what fabulous buyers!
Well, it was a bit more complicated than that...we wrote the offer and the listing agent didn't respond to us for almost a week. When we did get a response, the listing agent said that it had gone into escrow with another buyer the day before!
We were surprised to hear that and started looking at other properties in the area, but none that my clients liked as much.
So we decided to take a break from looking and start again in a few months.
One day my phone rang and it was theVentura agent saying that the house was about to fall out of escrow. The bank (it was an REO) was eager to put it back in escrow right away so we re-submitted our offer. We quickly received confirmation back that we were accepted!
Now please know, there is much more that I have left off of this story...but it ended up having the happiest of endings.
My newlywed clients (who postponed their honeymoon to sign loan docs!!!) are all moved in and happy as can be. I am very excited to be going down to Ventura on Monday night to have dinner in their new home.
Once again, thank you all for your support and for referring your friends and family to me. That was how I met these buyers and it has all worked out so well! A 20 minute drive from Santa Barbara and Home Sweet Home.
