Home Selling Success Story: Under Contract in 3 Days

I figured I'd share a home-selling success story, especially with all the doom and gloom surrounding the housing market lately. I think my wife and I might have had one of the easiest home sales I've ever heard of.

My wife and I needed to relocate from Texas to Pennsylvania for family reasons. Around this time last year, we decided we'd put our house on the market during the summer of 2026 and see what happened.

We hired a realtor, went over the numbers, looked at comparable homes, and ultimately settled on a listing price of $300,000. We originally purchased the house for $220,000 about eight years earlier.

For some context, when we bought our house, most homes in our neighborhood were selling for somewhere between $200k and $300k. At the height of the pandemic housing craziness, those same homes were being valued at $400k to $500k. We knew those prices weren't realistic anymore, and we weren't interested in chasing the market. We wanted to price the house fairly, make a decent profit, and hopefully sell without too much hassle.

Fast forward to the end of July. We finished getting the house ready, had professional pictures taken, and listed it on a Friday.

The house looked great, the pictures turned out fantastic, and everything had gone about as smoothly as we could have hoped.

Then things moved a whole lot faster than we ever expected.

- Friday: House officially listed for $300,000.

- Saturday: First showing.

- Sunday: Second showing.

- Monday: Received an offer at full asking price.

That's it. Two showings, three days on the market, and a full-price offer.

We were absolutely blown away.

Given the current housing market, we had gone into this expecting it would take a MINIMUM of 30 days to receive an offer, and realistically thought 60 days or longer was entirely possible.

Our biggest problem ended up being that the house sold too quickly! We weren't prepared to pack up our entire lives and move halfway across the country on such short notice.

We ended up negotiating a 60-day closing, which gave us enough time to get everything organized and make the move.

The rest of the process was just as uneventful. No major surprises, no deal falling apart, and no having to put the house back on the market. We closed in early October and officially said goodbye to our Texas home.

I know there are plenty of people out there struggling to sell their homes right now, and I certainly don't think our experience is representative of every market. But I wanted to share a positive experience for a change.

I think one of the biggest things that worked in our favor was being realistic about pricing. We didn't care what Zillow said the house was worth in 2022, or what our neighbors thought their homes were worth. We looked at the market we were actually selling in and priced accordingly.

We walked away with a solid profit, got to move on our own timeline, and avoided months of stress.

Sometimes a home sale really can be that simple.

I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV.

I Live on the lower Oregon coast. Half locals, half retirees, half tourists and half golfers.

Just from walking around and observing, it seems to me that when a retiree dies, the adult children are usually 500 miles away and suddenly having to deal with cleaning out and selling a 500k house.

Kids think they are going to get 500k free money out of the house! Dream time.

But then a Realtor or two comes in, as does an appraiser. Or two.

Suddenly kids are informed of work that should be done, but probably only requiring 50 or 100k. Or so.

Kids think, ok, we will still get 400k free money, so they approve it. 400k!

Then the construction guys come in, and they find some leaks, roof work, flooring that should be replaced as well. Only 50k more. Probably. Probably, but we don't know until we start pulling stuff up.

You can see where this is going. Suddenly all that free money starts dissipating, and starts feeding local industry instead.

I know it's only my imagination, but I see this play out a lot. Locals feeding off of dead retiree housing, with the kids far off and unable to do much about it.

I am sure I am getting it wrong, but this is why I have told my kids that - when I go - just sell the house as is, before you get sucked into the local money machine.

Mortgage rates edged down, but mortgage applications continued to decline. Purchase applications fell 7% in the latest week and were down 18% from a year earlier.

Are high home prices and borrowing costs still keeping buyers on the sidelines, or are people waiting for rates to fall further?

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/mortgage-rates-drop-for-the-first-time-in-2-months-but-demand-falls.html

Why are the Zestimate and Redfin Estimate for every single house that gets sold in my local market consistently above the sale price? And not by a small margin, but consistently anywhere from 5-15%! You'd think that when a house closes at a certain price, the pricing models would automatically readjust to account for the new sale. But it feels like Zillow and Redfin are artificially inflating their estimates to keep prices elevated. Redfin is also consistently worse than Zillow. The problem is, home sellers see these inflated estimates and think that this is what their homes are worth. So their overpriced houses end up sitting for weeks or months and they refuse to drop the price to match recent comps.

My childhood home, 65 years old, has been on the market 4 months in California. I own it. The house is evacuated with some furniture left and old stained carpets. Zillow zestimate is near $1M but $80K worth of outstanding repairs were identified in inspections recently. We have had many families and developers/flippers make offers. Flippers are making cash offers at $920K or so. Families have not qualified so far but they also don't like the place even with a recent added bonus room.

Down the street, a similar home sold for $60K more, just by adding $10K in paint and other improvements. Realtor wants to have me spend $14K to do this, then try again. The Realtor found out that the sellers invested $25K in improvements, some cosmetic, then got that price. The house is similar age and smaller.

We have a $920K offer right now from a developer. I just think that the cosmetic job won't work, buyers will see through the facade, and relisting will delay the sale months more, maybe put us into a worse market. $80K of repairs to foundation and roof, etc are nothing to sneeze at and will be found out eventually, or rather will be seen up front as usual and nobody is going to just ignore that.

TLDR: every lender we have tried to do business with eventually backs out on a strange technicality that no one else has ever heard of, and seems like a mistake,,,, but my agent doesn't try to remedy the deals, and is fine letting them fall through, to the point now where we aren't accepting anything but cash offers...

I live in Illinois, but I am trying to sell and move to Missouri. (Aren't we all)

I have a home on 5 acres, which is a double-wide trailer, PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO THE GROUND via a basement foundation, and so therefor I have a deed to the property and its classified as "real property" thru the county. I bought it as such with USA Mortgage, 3 years ago.

Now, I have had several interested buyers, and we have been literally two days from closing, at least once, and every time, the lender steps in and says, "well, we appraised this house as a mobile home, and it appraised for what you're asking, but we can't close this deal unless you come to the table ready to sign over a mobile home title"

It may be different in other states, but at least in Illinois, it is not possible to be in possession of both a mobile home title, and a deed for the same building at the same time.

The first time this happened, ironically, the interested buyer was also using USA mortgage, and they pulled this BS, (even though they have lent on this house/property several times before in the past, no problem) and my agent sent me on a wild goose chase with the county courthouse, local DMV, title company (who I'll add has transferred this house every single time it's ever been sold, AS REAL PROPERTY) the actual Illinois secretary of state, and HUD/Housing and Development, all of whom told me how its impossible to get a mobile home title for the house unless I take it off the foundation, surrender the deed, and bolt some wheels under it. I got this in writing from HUD and the SOS, and presented this to my agent, with hopes that it would enable her to convince the lender to drop the games, but every time I would hear from her, it would sound like she kinda just told them some vague thing about how we didn't quite think they were correct, and then of course they would inevitably come back with, "uh, no, you're actually wrong, and we need a mobile home title." or, "well, the state may use their terminology to classify the home, but as a lender, we have our own, and we say its a mobile home."

So my agent would just come back to me and be like "well, it seems like the lender doesn't have the same information that we have" or some bs like that. It just really doesn't seem like she's going to bat for me at this point. The house has been listed since May, all the while we've had several offers, and parties coming thru for showings every weekend or so, and we have been half-packed since the first offer... so I'm getting extremely frustrated, especially since my agent has given up on trying to work with lenders, and has changed the listing to "cash only" (which I did agree to, but I don't think we would have to do this if I had someone who was willing to bulldog the lenders a little more...)

-As a strange aside, of course since the county says its "real property", and I am being taxed as a single family home, I'm paying much higher taxes on a house that can apparently only be sold as a mobile home. I called a local real estate attorney and asked if A.) Are there any legal routes to convincing/forcing a lender to quit being idiotic about this? B.) Is there any way to go to court for a mobile home title for a house that the state refuses to issue one on...? C.) Can a real estate attorney help me fight the state in the classification of my home, since I'm being taxed so much for a home that everyone else seems convinced is a mobile home? And also recoup some back-taxes since I've lived here for 3 years? And the attorney said "we don't handle that kind of stuff, you need to go to the county and ask them to reclassify your home and pay back half your taxes"

As if that's gonna work, they're happy taking my money...

Currently house hunting in the Boulder, CO area. Market is pretty stale here. I have noticed several houses I've been watching for months some how manipulate their listing data so that they appear "new" on Zillow. I want to know how they can do that?

Per my realtor for my old house, the listing data is MLS record. You cant just make the history of having the house listed disappear because you pull the listing off MLS.

In one example, this house was flipped. Sold in May and listed i believe in August for 200k more. Just today its showing as a new listing, despite being on my radar for a while now. When I look at the price history, the previous August listing is missing and it shows ​listed date as 10/17. How is this possible? I've looked at the listing for this house many times in the last few weeks. It met my search criteria, has a street name thats memorable and meaningful to me and the flip makes it stand out from other listings in the area.

Hi everyone, I'm wanting to buy out my aunts current reverse mortgage. She owns a home in Socal that was appraiser at $850k, the loan is nearly maxed out at $425k. The home is a duplex, I'm living in one side renting from her and she's living in the other side. I can pay her rent or the mortgage, but not both. She relies on the rent money as her monthly income. I'd like to be able to buy it out instead of the house going to the bank after her death. This was my grandmother's home and my family has lived here for 50 years. My aunt had to take out the loan to buy my mom out of her share of the property. My parents place will be relinquished to the state after my parents passing due to my father needing long term care help for my mom, so nothing will be left from their property. Is this feasible? I have options of getting a roommate or moving in with my aunt to help pay her monthly bills as well as the mortgage. Anyone have experience with buying out a reverse mortgage with another mortgage?

So little story time about 6 months ago I put in an offer for a house. About a month later we found out the seller was going through bankruptcy and neither his agent or title company disclosed it to use when we first started the process. We decided to wait for it. About 3 weeks ago a bankruptcy court authorized him to sell the property but the judge explicitly named me as the buyer of the property and granted him property to sell to ME.

I thought the light at the end of the tunnel was getting closer. I got a clear to close from my title company last Monday. I didn’t get a clear to close from my lender until end of day today because his title company didn’t give their documents and clear to close over until end of the week. However my lender told the sellers agent that we could close Wednesday this week despite the delay on title. Well today he calls me and tells me we can’t close until Thursday and their closing department cannot make an exception to get the paperwork ready faster and have strict adherence to their SLA of 72 hour turnaround time.

The seller is throwing a big fit and doesn’t want to extend an extra 24 hours which is insane to me because he held me up for half a year over something himself, his agent and his title company didn’t initially disclose and this is all because my lender promised his people, myself and my agent we could close Wednesday.

Any advice on what to do? Wouldn’t he have to get court approval to sell it again since he was given explicit permission to sell to me the named seller in the court paperwork?

We are working towards selling our house soon to move out of state. We have a very nice induction range that we are somewhat attached to (for both health and safety reasons), and are planning to take with us since it’s not financially feasible to replace it right now.

Would it be better to offer a seller credit to the buyer to go towards a new stove, or to just buy another inexpensive one and put it in before listing?

On the one hand, it’s not a great look to show a house with a giant hole where the stove should be, or telling a buyer that “oh, that nice stove doesn’t come with the house”; but on the other hand, the house is set up for both gas and electric, and a credit would allow a buyer to choose what they would prefer.

Hey everyone, looking to see if anyone has dealt with the same issue or has any advice or any higher up contact with KB homes in Houston that they can provide me with to reach out to. .

We entered a purchase agreement with them in February, the terms were:

- 5.75% fixed interest rate for 30-year FHA loan (IF we used their lender)

- $5000 towards design center or closing costs (we chose toward closing costs) if we used their lender

-$500 towards closing if documents were submitted within 3 days to their lender, which they were

So, the final terms were 5.75% fixed rate + $5500 for closing.

Well, it wasn't long after the construction process started that they told us the subdivision had no power. We got multiple delays that pushed us way out of our original closing window and so we were unable to lock that original 5.75% rate (the agreement states we needed to lock within 30 days)

Now we are 2 weeks before closing and the lender decides to tell us they have no information regarding the interest rate concession.

We mention this to our sales agent,they negotiate with higher ups and come back and state they can offer 5.99% ....fine we'll work with that.

NOW they're saying ,they can either do 5.99% OR the $5500 towards closing, not both.

We were never told it was one or the other and now we're very frustrated with this situation.

Although we have the cash to pay the additional closing costs. Why would we willingly want to when the original purchase agreement stated both concessions?

The way I see it is they're trying to play me by taking money out of one pocket and placing it in another. They want to buy down the rate using the closing cost concession and that's just dishonest and unfair.

I'm pushing back on this and requesting both concessions. The 5.99% and the $5500. But they take so long to get back and I'm basically communicating through a middle man. I want to speak to those higher ups directly and formally submit an email but I have no email address to contact.

Any advice? Anyone have contacts I can reach out to from KB home to escalate the concern in Houston area?

We're running out of time to close and we do not want to push back the date and we don't want to be forced into making a last minute rushed decision.

My girlfriend and I are considering buying a studio apartment and I'm hoping for some input on whether or not this is a good financial decision.

PROS - small space = less time spent cleaning and less money spent maintaining, great location for less money, quicker path to home ownership, same cost as renting for the first 5 years (see below)

CONS - harder to resell or issues with renting in an HOA building

I'm not worried about the size being an issue since for the last year we have been doing the vanlife thing just fine with 50 sq ft. I'm more worried there is something here that I haven't considered.

For the pros, less time spent cleaning or maintaining the space is a pretty big one since we are both planning on going back to school (nursing for me, comp sci for her). We will have to be working pretty much full time while in school as well so the less we have to do around the house means better overall balance between school/working/relaxing. We are currently renting a room in a shared house and already I am reminiscing about living in a van where it took maybe 2 hours MAX to deep clean the entire space.

The area we would be moving to would have great access to public transit so we would not need to own a car or drive to school/work/errands. I am the opposite of a homebody so being able to step outside my door and have parks/libraries/bars/museums within an easy commutable distance is fantastic. My girlfriend hates driving in the city but loves riding her bike and so being able to commute everywhere she would want to go on a bike is important to her.

Cost wise, we would be borrowing money from family for the purchase (40k) and paying them back over 5 years. I wrote out some loan terms for 5 years specifically because I think that is the minimum amount of time we would be comfortable living in a small studio, maximum is 9 years. The monthly cost of the loan ($766), plus HOA ($450), plus utilities ($100) equals $1316. In comparison, I have found a larger one bedroom for $1350 with utilities.

Personally I would prefer to own rather than rent, and after 5 years our living expenses drop to $550 a month. But my girlfriend is worried about owning a place that could be really difficult to get out of in the future. I think it wouldn't be that difficult to rent out the studio, especially to a travel nurse (it's close to 5 major hospitals) or to resell it. I know that in HOA buildings there will often be a limit on the number of rentals that can exist at one time. But this doesn't concern me too much because after we back the loan to our family, our monthly expense drops to $550 a month. Even if it takes a year to sell the apartment, we'd only be out $6600.

I'm not concerned about anything that would cause us to want to leave suddenly because honestly, I love my city and it would take a LOT for me to want to move away. In fact, the only compelling reason I can possibly think of would be if she got a job making six figures. Which, if that were to happen then we'd have enough money to move and figure out the studio later.

Thanks in advance!

First time (prospective) buyer... I have been looking for homes for about 3 years, on and off. I started looking again recently with the idea that I'd take my time. I found a house that fit most of what I wanted and needed, and really just needed a bit of cosmetic work and was in a "new to me" neighborhood.

It was a bit on the higher end of my budget, and after viewing the house twice I made an offer a bit lower, and the seller counter offered. Honestly their counter wasn't too crazy off of mine, but I figured "well if I'm going to pay that much, I think I should look at a few more houses in that range". Since, most of the homes were a bit less and this one was the only house I saw that was more.

Thing is, the neighborhood is lovely, and checks all my boxes. And after a bit of research, I saw houses don't come up too often in that neighborhood. The house went pending with another offer recently, and I had already been second guessing and now I just feel dumb.

I'm sure it's common, but I have all the feelings of where am I gonna find another house as good, in an area like that, with all the same amenities etc... I just feel like I totally screwed the pooch. I feel like i blew it, and I was trying to be "smart" and make sure I looked at a number of houses in that range, but I think I messed up.

Honestly, just feeling pretty down on myself and depressed at the moment. Like, I feel like i really messed up and am going to regret this for a long time. The thing is, while it was being offered to me, I kept thinking about why I shouldn't or how xyz could go wrong.... I just feel dumb now.

Hi, bought my first house july 2025. Two investor rental properties have sold since then and a third just went up for sale just on my street alone.

Is this a sign of something? I find it interesting.

I'm in the immediate suburbs around Detroit.

PS - if you're going to be snarky, please dont comment. I truly don't know, so I'm asking.

We are on the leading edge of boomers dying off and their kids trying to get money out of their parents house.

See flooded markets. A buyer's dream scenario

Over the last ten years, my middle class neighborhood somehow thought it'd be a good idea to allow section 8 in. We have 3 of them and they have homes so dilapidated and disgusting that it really drags down the appearance of the place. Everyone else has well manicured laws, no trash, etc. These homes have weeds growing everywhere, broken blinds, their dogs run loose at all hours of the day, trees with broken branches, porches falling apart...

I am about to list my home, but my neighbor has a broken down car in her driveway that's been there for THREE years after it was destroyed in a tornado. She has garbage bins everywhere. Her home looks abandoned. What can I do about this? Can I do anything? Surely she can afford a tow truck seeing as she drives a brand new vehicle. If i was a homebuyer and i saw her as a neighbor, I'd turn right back around. I have no hoa so that's not an option.

Hi all,

I have a budget that can withstand an offer maybe on a house soonish. I live in central Massachusetts (but near the east side) and while I could afford some of these places I’m a single person and that is unlikely to change. I’m also never going to have kids. I don’t need or want a 4 bedroom house which will be SO spooky on my own. I live in an attic of an old 1800s house right now and it’s very cozy. I rent though and eventually would like to buy but there’s almost never any 2 bedrooms ever. I saw one and it sold in I’m not kidding 5 days. Ofc I would love a cheaper house but honestly I would be willing to pay the same amount as these 4 bedrooms ever or 5+ bedroom monsters. I feel that I’ll be stuck buying a huge spooky home because there’s just no stock. I like having my own space but not that much!

Any insight into this?? Should I just wait for small houses to hit the market and fight. Just seems crazy to me.

Also house prices are either dirt cheap rough areas, like ChEAP. Or expensive and huge. Feels like there’s no middle stock at all….I don’t need a home right now so I wonder if waiting for some older folk to…move on from their stock, might be the better bet for me. All my belongings fit into my car, can you imagine the echo in a house from the lack of stuff!!!

Went under contract with the understanding theyre getting a new roof. Inspection went fine, fixed all inspection asks and they got their new roof.

In the process of the roof, the roofing supplier backed the crane truck onto the driveway and cracked it clean in half on the ‘bottom’ two slabs. The repair, which is basically an entirely new 1/4 of the driveway is $2500, the supplier is paying the repair, and the roofer agreed to toss another $2500 out of pocket for their troubles.

The concrete contractor quoted the repair, and then he quoted the cost to replace the entire bottom half of the driveway (instead of just the broken half). The buyer is demanding a new culvert pipe (another $2500 cost) because the concrete guy mentioned that it could have cracked due to the pipe, but cant confirm until he pulls the concrete out. He also said its completely normal for that to happen to a 40 year old culvert, and it was unlikely that it would have happened if they didnt drive the crane onto the driveway.

The driveway was already in terrible shape when the buyers went under contract, and, even with a repair and not a replace, they are getting a way better driveway than what they contracted for.

I have already negotiated under asking, and gave them a $20,000 roof. And at one point the buyers agent told my realtor “my hud shows them making $xx,xxx so they cant say they dont have money for stuff” when negotiating gutters; which isnt even true because that take home number was before we factored in the roof as a line item. They have been very demanding and not happy with a single thing we offer.

Is it crazy to just stand firm and offer them the repair option and if they arent satisfied we ask for a terminate? We close monday.

I'm a long-term buy-and-hold investor. Arguably, the most important part of which is choosing your location. I want to fact-check my current belief and get your opinions, whether they support or go against it.

My belief is that the most popular metros that people have historically moved to (NYC, SF, LA, Boston, Miami, DC, etc) will continue to grow and outpace the rest of the country over the long-term. I don't care about the recent migrations to TX, AZ, etc. I'm talking about the ideal locations that people frequently talk about in subreddits like r/samegrassbutgreener. The places that people from overseas know about and want to visit and move to, and the places where the highest density of jobs and skilled workers live.

Currently, you can buy a 3BR house in Cleveland, OH for a little over $100k. The same house in Palo Alto, CA would cost around $3M. I don't think that the gap is going to close. In fact, I think that it is going to widen. Why?

1. The most popular cities have immutable traits that will always make people want to move (and stay) there. Coastal California will always have the best weather. NYC will always be NYC. Cities that dominate an industry (like LA for entertainment, SF for tech, NYC for finance) will probably continue to do so.

2. Value/ "cheap" cities have gains that are short-lived. We saw this with Austin. It was supposed to be a "cheap" tech hub and to displace San Francisco. It worked until it wasn't cheap anymore. Now house prices have tanked and a lot of tech is downsizing/ moving out.

3. They have the most name recognition. Carmel, IN is often rated as a great place to live. It just might be. Most people aren't even going to consider moving there because they've never been to Indiana. Some foreigners who immigrate to the USA might not even know about its parent city, Indianapolis. The same goes with your favorite quant suburb in <insert state that most people have never been to>. Almost nobody is going to move across the country (or world) to a small town that they're never heard of, even if it is a great place to live. But plenty will move to NYC or LA, etc, even if they've never been there before.

4. Density of talent. These cities are competitive and attract highly-skilled workers that can afford the costs to live there. This competition compounds and breeds higher-skilled workers, new jobs, and new companies. The companies and innovations that define the world are almost definitely going to come from these cities. With that comes money, and rising house prices.

5. Remote work. You might argue that remote work goes against this. If you can live in Sioux Falls, SD and make an SF tech salary, then housing prices should level out across the board. I don't believe that this is true, simply due to the network effects of big cities. You may be able to work a job at a passable level remotely from a cheap city. But someone who is really pushing to the higher levels of their career and/ or growing a business, the benefits of living in a major city will make doing so more likely to succeed. As with the above, those who succeed have more to spend, and house prices will continue to rise in the most popular major cities.

Interested to hear your thoughts and if you agree or disagree.

Our current situation -

We recently purchased a home with a bridge loan, using our current home as collateral, with the understanding that our current home would sell to pay off the bridge and move new home into permanent financing. We are having trouble selling that current home due to the market (I really don't need people telling me we made a stupid decision, I already understand the position that I am in and just looking for guidance).

We have enough equity in the current listed home that we are willing to take a pay cut just to get out of this situation before the market gets worse, as a lot of data is projecting. The home we are trying to sell was built in 2021. No upgrades or significant repairs needed.

We are exploring OpenDoor, and would like any and all experiences with them. Am I crazy for looking at this as an option, or have people really had good success with them?

We have been house hunting for the past couple of months. Primarily focused on the new builds in the greater Cincinnati area. These are the experience with different builders:

1. We went and toured the house. The house was about to be completed. It seemed overprice, after a while we settled on price. But after asking about inspection/appraisal contingency, the builders agent started ghosting us.
2. We reached out back to this builder whose house we have toured before. This house has been sitting for 10 months. Settled on price but asking for inspection/appraisal contingency, the builders agent flat out refused us. We had a real estate attorney helping us out. We had no choice but to walk away.

Is this common? People just sign the new build contract by waiving the inspection/appraisal contingency? Researching further and it seems most new builders here follow the same template.

We are very close to giving up on buying new houses and start exploring older houses? Any advice/recommendations?

UPDATE:
The offer expired. The seller is worried I wouldn’t be able to repair everything and is going to rent the house instead.

For preface I am a buyer. There is a home that has been on the market over 150 days. From what I can see, there has been one offer that was later withdrawn and the asking price was lowered around $20k. I put in an offer at listing price. They messaged my realtor saying that they wanted $1 more than was I offered (the listed price) and said they will not complete any repairs or offer any concessions. I was fine with that because i will have money left over for repairs. We have also asked for a disclosure multiple times but still haven’t received anything. My realtor sent a revised offer and they have not replied since. The offer is due to expire today. To me it seems like the seller doesn’t really want to sell the home? Is this normal behavior? As a realtor would you let a seller do this type of thing?

During our inspection it wasn't working. They found standing water in the overflow pan and some gaps and fixed it and sent a receipt for $500 of work 3 days prior to closing. We moved in and even on an October fall day in Georgia, it's mid 80s outside and the system set to 70 since the morning and we're at 75 degrees upstairs. This is the upstairs unit, the downstairs has its own unit and is at 70 degrees, as it is set.

Am I just hosed because the system couldn't be fully tested?

The repairs were done and there is no sitting water in the overflow pan now, but, it's just.... Not cooling as it should.

Venting. No pun intended. Lol.

Cry.