"When It's Over, That's the Time I Maul and Shove Bacon."
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Walkin' in Hawkins
The mirage is over. The seller ran ramshod over our final offer—he ignored it just as he did for the contract requirement to open the pool in 5 days for inspection. He countered at $17.5 of $30K...$30K of line-by-line for 5 pages of repairs with thumbnails—not aesthetics like that kitchen that compels you to lose weight as your stomach churns—REPAIRS! He countered and rolled the dice on a place when if he just signed off on our offer, he would have doubled his money! Doubled it on a place where he walked into his ex-wife's pickup of a foreclosure and...umm....there was a lot of good TV on over the years?
Could have doubled his money in a low-turnover, local market. I gotta pull this one out again for yet ANOTHER seller:
Yeah, his $17.5 offer would not have even covered the house repairs, much less touched that leaking pool with the holes he tried to weld together between our first and *ahem* second pool inspections. If we fixed it ourselves, it would set us back $10K. Sure, he featured that pool in his listing since October, but it was no more than a hole in the ground where one HOPES its "lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea" don't involve me or my house. He could have just walked away with a wheelbarrow of cash without worrying about the fixes.
I can never understand sellers. Much less want a place of one Upside Down or another.
Another Place...as a “Temporary” Landlord?
We were going to throw in an offer on another place, but we discovered that the sellers don't want to move out. I mean, sure, they EVENTUALLY want to leave (right?), but they just wanted to know what it was like to be a tenant for a bit or something. The thing is, I kinda want to move out of my current place—that's also sorta my incentive to city planning all of this cardboard cityscape in my living room. Shifting a mortgage payment AND monthly rent from the seller to the buyer just ain't my bag. Introduces all sorts of risk and...well, what do I gain? I'm not getting that choice windfall at the end.