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Originally Posted by jasonturbo
My spouses grandpa lives in an old home in deep cove in a nice area, I keep telling him how much I love his house so that hopefully he sells it to us for a decent price.
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If that's a place you have an eye for, don't just tell him how much you love his house. Go in and make him a reasonable offer. I've had similar situations arising with friends and family on other (non-house) things, and they almost never took the remark seriously. Granted, sometimes I am not being too serious either. But it has happened enough times that I have since stopped making this kind of casual remarks.
Give him a fair offer and see where that takes you.