Hi Tiffany,
If the property is active under contract, the contract may have a home sale contingency. If that is the case you may still want to make an appointment. If it is listed as pending I wouldnt get your hopes up. I ran a search on trend and currently 216 properties are listed active north of Wilmington under 300k. I would be happy to end you the listing info on other properties in the area. Just shoot me an email.

Tiffany, I agree with everyone else, the contract may not be that solid and the agent may want back up offers. Good luck!

Not necessarily. Have your buyer agent contact the listing agent to see if they are accepting back-up offers on that property.

I would ask to see it, because you would like to consider making a back up offer. Once you see the inside you may not be as crazy about the house. As is, it will always be the one that got away. I had a seller (I had the buyer in this deal) back out of negotiations because the house they'd had their heart set on THEY'D NEVER BEEN INSIDE, and once we had an offer, they went to see it and didn't like it.

You can sumbit a back up contract. If anything goes awry with the exisitng contract, the sellers will have your offer. A danger in this strategy is that the sellers can use your back-up offer as a leverage tool in negotiating any post inspection negotiation items with the buyer under contract. An alternative strategy may be to simply to let the sellers know (through your agents) that you are interested, without letting them know the exxact offer you would make. If all goes smoothly w/ the existing contract, it is unlikely to provide an oppty for you.