Yesterday my wife and I went to one of Carriage Runs’s “Red Door Deal”. We were primarily interested in one of the Plan One house which has a bigger backyard, despite Plan One’s small house size. They put the property in MLS for a range of “799k to 829k”. We figured that maybe we could talk it down to like 780k and get Pardee throw in many more upgrades and landscaping, we would still buy it because my wife like the community. However, after talking to a sale woman there we quickly found out Pardee never intends to sell that house for 799k. They just put it in MLS hoping to lure in some uninformed buyer with greedy buyer’s agent (Pardee gives 3% kickback to agent if the buyer has never been there before). We were completely pissed off.
Then we were shown their Plan 1 homes promoted in the Red Carpet Deal. Two of them have the backyard landscape finished. But they have very tiny lot (3200 sq. feet) and backyard so landscape is easy anyway. They are still asking for 770k to 780k for those tiny homes (3 Bed, 3 bath, 1980 sq feet, but it feels smaller), even when they are actually leftover from 3-4 releases before!!!
Plus unlike existing home owners, Pardee does NOT need to pay the 6% commission!
We kept going to check out house in Carriage Runs, hoping that Pardee will finally come to their sense and give us homebuyers some break. But no break! No real deal, just gimmick!!!
