My house is up/2 showings in the first few days

[little lady]

Hey, just thought I’d let anyone who was interested see how my situation pans out. The house got some traffic and it has only been about 3 days on the mls. The broker thinks he’ll sell it quick. We will see. I hope he is right. I keep you posted…TTFN

[little lady]

Sorry, I tied to edit and posted twice.

[PerryChase]

Thanks for posting the sales progress of your house. I guess your house will be the Piggington guinea pig for how sales are picking up in the Spring. Hope it turns out to be a golden pig.

[little lady]

Thanks PC. I don’t want to be a millionare but making a little profit would be nice.

[farbet]

so what is the MLS #

[little lady]

As much as I would like to advertise(get the word out,whatever) my house. I don’t want to give that much personal info over the internet. Sorry…….

[farbet]

whats personal about am MLS @
You must be faking

[PerryChase]

farbet, give it a rest. MLS# is very revealing. Once you have MLS#, you have the address. Once you have the address you can ID the owner.

[little lady]

That’s right, and the phone number….no thanks

[little lady]

That’s right, and the phone number….no thanks

[DaisyDuke]

Little Lady, I appreciate your need for anonymity, however, could you give us some details about your house.

Maybe general location (or not), asking price, square foot, number of rooms, special features? Anything you can give that won’t give up your info just so we can get a general picture of your piece of property.

I would love to track this too. I recently sold myself and got through by the skin of my teeth with a buyer who originally said they were putting 5% down and then changed mid-stream because they wanted some money to change a few things and put up a fence. Well, the sale indeed almost fell through because the lender at the last minute added some “credit” conditions. It closed. Anyway, we’ve kept in touch with the buyer as she is a young girl and this was her first home and we wanted to make sure she knew how to work things, and take care of the spa, etc., well, she has no money to put up a fence, she has no furniture, she has a small fridge in place of where a double door stainless steel fridge resided. We offered to sell her the fridge (which was relatively new.) but she said no. So much for wanting to keep some money back to fix some things.

My sale was in North Orange County.
My property was listed for $480,000
I received several offers and one actually at $490,00 and they asked us to carry closing costs. Lender would not allow the appraiser to appraise anything over the last sale in my complex. So, wanting to sell the dang thing, we took $477,000 and paid $7,000 in closing costs. We walked away with about $230,000 in the bank.

My property was 1670 sq. feet
3 Large bedrooms (which is hard to find)
2 1/2 baths
Good open floor plan
Completely remodeled inside with a new custom (not Home Depot) kitchen — all the pullouts you could imagine.
Huge association dues – $280.00 a month
Good, safe community with 230 units.

Despite the fact that I had to relinquish my beautiful kitchen, I am looking forward to a nicer piece of property that I can afford and not have to pay on a gazillion years. If I remodeled one, I can do it to another.

Daisy . . .

[little lady]

It’s a 1972 SFR in east county, 3b/2ba 2 car with (a parking lot) RV parking. All newer dual pane windows,sprinklers, elementary(GATE Magnet) and high school within a few blocks walk. It is a sought after neighborhood around here due to the elementary school.
Lot’s of parks and lakes(plural)and golf course, within walking distance. It’s within a minute to freeways and 18 minutes to downtown, less than 15 to La Jolla.

The main draw back would be the cheap construction of the 1970’s.

Bought in 1995 for 119k, it is listed in the lower 400’s and took a lot of money out to fix the place up as it was a fixer, we also put on an addition. So we owe alot more than we did. We want to put the money away, wait until houses drop and purchase another, however we are not sure where we will go due to my husband retiring from the military in the next year or two.

[SD Realtor]

Little Lady, I think you guys will do fine. I think I saw the listing on the MLS and I think you guys have priced it competitively. Hang in there.

SD Realtor

[little lady]

SD Realtor,

Thanks! Always nice to hear positive feedback………..

[DaisyDuke]

Having just gone through it, don’t buy anything else until your home sells. Risky buyers are out there so be prepared for “hoops”. One thing I would have done differently is that I would have written the escrow so that I had a longer time to move out after escrow closes. If you do that, you won’t have to commit yourself until you know it is going, going, gone! That was one of the scary things for me. I signed a lease on another piece 10 days before escrow was to close, had my stuff packed up and ready to go and the day it was to close it almost fell through but I guess the lender got tired of the whole thing and let the loan fund.

I was freaking out when I thought I’d have to continue to make my mortgage payment and a rent payment . . . so, I understand the fear of all those “flippers” out there I guess.

Good luck and keep us posted.

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