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it would be like to live there.
Days later, we made a(n)
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—far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t
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us. They renewed their offer
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. It was also much more than we could afford, but far
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than the original asking price.
The next day, we got a
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message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the
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directly. We made our final offer, which
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was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it,
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we had to try.
“Sold!” said the owner. Then he
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: He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d
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the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a
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by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the
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in the price “an early wedding present.”
That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are
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