Dear Readers:
OK, I’ve got a good one for you. My husband and I have been looking for houses here in Orange County for a full year now since we sold our house in San Diego in January. We had rented it out since we moved to Orange County in September 2010 because the housing market was at it’s worst. It only slightly improved by the time we sold it, but we wanted our assets to be liquid in case we found a house and wanted to move on it.
We’ve been narrowing our search parameters down to the current city that we live in because the kids are in a great school, and it’s central to the freeways, shopping centers and the beach. This also narrows our choices as well, good houses in our price range are few and far between and get snapped up very quickly. We’ve put in a few offers, but were either outbid or in the case of one short sale house, the owner clearly didn’t want to give up his house, and made the situation so thorny that we walked away.
So, my husband has put a moratorium on talking about, tweeting or posting on Facebook the specifics on any deal we are working on. Which brings me to the point of my post. How superstitious are you about bidding on a house? What are your rules regarding posting, tweeting or talking about it to friends, family or complete strangers on the internet? I would really like to know.
Girl Behind The Orange Curtain 