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We have put 5 offers on 5 different houses since 2/09. Two of those offers were accepted and we got the contract only to be told that the sellers got a better offer and sent a contract to someone else. This second time it was on a house that was for sale for one year. We don’t know how to get to the point of actually signing a contract without another buyer coming in. What is the deal? The first accepted offer was over asking price and the second one was near asking price. There was a ton of opportunity for the buyer on the most recent house to make an offer before we did, especially if he was going to offer nearly asking price anyway. If it’s this hard in this market to buy, I can’t imagine what is was like in 07.