And so it begins....

Today we had the inspection on our house and it passed with flying colors! This is exciting because we don't have to spend money fixing things or decrease the price in our house. After asking for our microwave that was not on display, the buyer had the nerve to also ask for the mario bros wall decals I had purchased for my husband. Uh, no, they are freaking awesome and I paid 60 bucks for them. Here is the website you can purchase them from if you really like them that much.
We also went to look at 3 more houses today. The last one we saw we fell in love with. 1600 square feet, 3 huge bedrooms with lots of closet space, 1.5 baths, huge living room with built in half wall to display pictures, candles, etc. gorgeous dining room, huge kitchen, great fenced in yard. The thing that we were concerned with was the area. It is 6 blocks down from the contender we looked at yesterday. The house has been on the market for over a year, and there have been a lot of listings in that neighborhood. As gorgeous and perfect the house is, we needed to stick with our guns and put an offer in on a house that is in the right neighborhood. After discussing everything with the realtor, we chose to make an offer on a house that is in a desired neighborhood. It's 300 square feet smaller but that does not include the fully finished basement which has awesome plush carpet which I can assure you the dog is definately not allowed downstairs. There are plenty of modernizing updated that can be done, but it is pretty much move in ready.
The house has only been on the market for 11 days, it is in a desirable location, which makes it difficult to give a lowball offer. We also are looking for 6% concessions from the sellers to help with our closing cost. So we made an offer of list price with 6% concessions with appliances included, and we will take it from there. We are willing to go a little over list price to get 6% concessions if need be, but we can't go much higher.
The other house that we looked at today is second on our list and will be our fallback. It's not occupied, it's been on the market for a long period of time, so we could definately get the seller down in price and are more likely to get 6% concessions. Here's to hoping we hear an answer soon!