Realestalking: When the home of your dreams becomes your obsession

The Seattle Times reports:

Shelley Saunders and Andrew Benjamin fell in love two years ago — with someone else's house.

At first the relationship was simply one of admiration for the Laurelhurst home, which emphasized metal and industrial lighting, so different from their own art-deco- style house 10 blocks away. But one thing led to another, and admiration became a desire to possess.

"We've become — maybe me a little more than my husband — a little fixated on this house," Saunders confessed.

They aren't alone. Local real-estate agents say a class of would-be homebuyers exist who go beyond spending their weekends visiting open houses. There's even a term for them: realestalkers.

An interesting article.