8
—far below the asking price.Surprisingly, they didn't
9
us.They renewed their offer
10
.It was also much more than we could afford, but far
11
than the original asking price.
The next day, we got a
12
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
14
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
19
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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, they are not strangers, only friends we haven't yet met.
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