This whole system is so hard! As bids aren’t public you just throw a number out there and hope. Sometimes you get the house (or so they say…) and sometimes not. It usually depends on if you have the highest bid or not. The last few bids have been slightly over asking price but still not enough. It all indicates a very hot market, not unlike the one at home. Might have to take on a different approach. Let me think.
ps. as I know the blog post without photos aren’t fun, here are some old ones I found: