During the covid frenzy, buyers were forced to live with everything. Bidding wars with no rules of engagement, paying way over list price, having to buy the home as-is and tolerate 1-2 months of free rent –  plus the buyers were generally treated like they should feel lucky to get the house. And they put up with it!

Boy, is it different now.

Today, buyers are looking for any reason to stay on the fence.

I think it’s why the market can slow for weeks or months at a time, then all of a sudden a bunch of homes go pending. Buyers hold out as long as they can, but at some point they realize there are no perfect homes and they have to live with something.

Here’s my challenge to buyers and buyer-agents everywhere.

Live with just one thing.

It’s all too common for today’s buyers to search every home for something wrong, and then throw their hands up and declare, “Ok, I found something I don’t like – on to the next home.”

Recognize that there are no perfect homes and you have to live with something.

If you are looking hard and can only find one thing, it’s probably the house for you!