So, we've had an unusually good weekend of house hunting and liked three of the five houses we saw enough to buy them. We're now absolutely desperate to get out of our rented flat, and just want to buy NOW. Around here the market is INSANELY overheated, we often attend open houses with 25 couples viewing within 2 hours, and almost everything goes to best and final offers.
We've ranked all three houses, we know how much we'd like to offer on them, and what we'd LIKE to do is just offer on the first, then the second, then the third, and see if we get them. BUT I'm very worried about the second choices possibly selling before we get to hear about the first.
Has anyone got any suggestions about how to handle this situation? Can we tell the estate agents for the second and third choices what we're doing in the hopes that they advise the sellers to hang about and not accept anything until we've offered?