I wouldn't mind a no view place but my daughter and grand daughter live with me so I try to keep everything but my bedroom a nicer and happier place.

I am sorry you got pressured, it can be hard to deal with.

Yeah, I looked for about 3.5 months and saw so many houses I lost count. I was not being pressured but with my MH in decline, I think I started overlooking things important to me so the last few houses I would schedule to see at least twice.

Although, the sellers market is extreme so I had to be quick. I lost a couple of better houses at around the same price including a really nice 4 level(it was really 2 level, but each level was a split level) new build because of my indecisiveness. It was insane, some houses weren't even on the market 24 hours before they were gone and others had a dozen offers within that same time period.

It took a while getting comfortable making offers so quickly. I really got lucky on this house. They were fairly passively doing marketing and I just came across it on zillow listed under 'make me move' and had my agent reach out. They had no agent so I had a weekend to poke around and the only competing offer was a ridiculous low ball offer by an investor. No one else came to see it. They are a military family getting transferred and I think they liked selling to a vet. If they had a realtor I would never have gotten it. I lost a lot of bids and I saw houses like this jump up $15-$20k over asking price which was well over my preapproval limit. It is just crazy right now. It's funny, I lost two other houses in this development and both of them were gone in a day and bids got close to $20k over asking.

That is how lucky I got which worries me as I usually only have bad luck. I am telling myself it is just meant to be to try and keep myself calm.

It is confusing about professional relationships, well all relationships. I think what made it worse is that my niece came up for about 5 weeks and spent a lot of time looking at houses and she and one of my other sisters really think she wants a friendship. They told me I have zero awareness of body language and other cues which is probably correct. I think I will just see what happens as this winds down. She did say she will drop by now and again especially for the first year to make sure things are well (she really is a fantastic realtor) so I don't see the need to go out on a limb and embarrass myself.

Thank you for your kind post and I hope your next place makes you happier.