one down, nine more to go.....

Talking to someone recently, they told me they put offers on ten houses before they got one. So one down, 9 more to go!
We had a shot at a house last night. A great house, but a house that required a good amount of cosmetics done. It was built in 1979 and ALL original. But the layout, location and yard were awesome so we gave it a shot. We gave a great offer considering there were 3 others, we then got a called back and said if we uped it about $5 grand we would have it. We pulled. We thought our first offer was too much for the house and we knew we couldn't afford the work if we went too high. So someone got stuck with paying a huge amount for a house that is going to be pricey to fix up.
So now it is on to house #2. It takes offers in three hours. Our realitor is coming soon to draw one up. We will give the best offer we can but this house is too good to be true and could go for way to much then we could possibly imagine. It is an older home, (1960) but all done. We could move in and not have to do a thing. Yes, Steve would be bored but I am sure we could find other projects to do. I feel this house could be too much out of our reach, but our realitor still thinks we should take a shot. We would kick ourselves if it went for a great price because everyone got scared of the bidding wars and pulled out.
If this doesn't work, then we keep looking. We know we will find something. We have a good range of price to work with and something has bound to come up and we will jump on anything that does.
One last thing.....I need to put a plug in for our realitor because we are overly impressed with everything so far. This is the first time working with him. We kind of just phoned him out of the blue and he is very good at what he does. So if anyone is looking for a great realitor in Winnipeg, contact Kevin Moist.