The Hunt

As many of you know, the couple we are house-sitting for returns home in June. So we are hoping to find a house obviously before then. So far we've made 3 offers on 3 different houses all in the same area. We've been driving around a lot and we've decided we really love this beautiful area with amazing views and great family-oriented neighborhoods. The first offer we made was on a short sale and we still haven't heard anything back from them on that. The second offer was on a bank-owned house, and we got beat out by another offer. We are still the back-up offer on that house if anything should fall through. The third offer we just made on Saturday, and we were supposed to hear back by today. We found out that the house was owned by Freddie Mac. Well, then sometime over the weekend, it was sold or taken by the bank and is now bank-owned. UGH! As for now, the house has been taken off the market or just the MLS listings, not sure. The agent told the bank that he had a good offer (ours) on the table all ready to go. So now we are trying to re-submit our offer to the bank, but we don't have any info yet on where to send the offer. I'm just so frustrated. Why is it so complicated? This market is crazy.
Anyway, there's the update. Wish us luck!!!