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ParticipantYes, looks like Sandicor imposed some new rules. A lot of listings don’t show address information unless you log in, either.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home, drboom! :)[/quote]Thanks, CAR. It has been a long time coming.
Just to keep my Pigg credentials intact, let me say for the record that I will induce vomiting if I hear one more person say “it’s a great time to buy”. I’m convinced that most of my 20% down payment “equity” will evaporate over the next couple of years.
The “take it or leave it” sales terms the OP and I have to put up with are a real treat, too. In my case, the house is in relatively good shape but there is an unbelieveable amount of crap in the yard, the workshop, under the house (wine bottles, yay), in the attic (crazy aunt? haven’t looked closely), etc. This is the first resale for this house (built 1952), so stuff has piled up for decades. I’ll be working my tail off for the next few weeks just to get it ready for us to move in.
But as I drink my coffee and wait for the County Recorder to do their thing, I gotta say I’ve been this excited about very few things in my life. My kids (3yo and 1yo) will finally escape apartment prison, I’ll finally have a proper office/shop, and my wife and I can finally stop making improvements to other people’s property.
Sorry about hijacking the thread; we will now return to our regularly scheduled Tales of REO Extortion starring Vincent Price as the evil Asset Manager.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home, drboom! :)[/quote]Thanks, CAR. It has been a long time coming.
Just to keep my Pigg credentials intact, let me say for the record that I will induce vomiting if I hear one more person say “it’s a great time to buy”. I’m convinced that most of my 20% down payment “equity” will evaporate over the next couple of years.
The “take it or leave it” sales terms the OP and I have to put up with are a real treat, too. In my case, the house is in relatively good shape but there is an unbelieveable amount of crap in the yard, the workshop, under the house (wine bottles, yay), in the attic (crazy aunt? haven’t looked closely), etc. This is the first resale for this house (built 1952), so stuff has piled up for decades. I’ll be working my tail off for the next few weeks just to get it ready for us to move in.
But as I drink my coffee and wait for the County Recorder to do their thing, I gotta say I’ve been this excited about very few things in my life. My kids (3yo and 1yo) will finally escape apartment prison, I’ll finally have a proper office/shop, and my wife and I can finally stop making improvements to other people’s property.
Sorry about hijacking the thread; we will now return to our regularly scheduled Tales of REO Extortion starring Vincent Price as the evil Asset Manager.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home, drboom! :)[/quote]Thanks, CAR. It has been a long time coming.
Just to keep my Pigg credentials intact, let me say for the record that I will induce vomiting if I hear one more person say “it’s a great time to buy”. I’m convinced that most of my 20% down payment “equity” will evaporate over the next couple of years.
The “take it or leave it” sales terms the OP and I have to put up with are a real treat, too. In my case, the house is in relatively good shape but there is an unbelieveable amount of crap in the yard, the workshop, under the house (wine bottles, yay), in the attic (crazy aunt? haven’t looked closely), etc. This is the first resale for this house (built 1952), so stuff has piled up for decades. I’ll be working my tail off for the next few weeks just to get it ready for us to move in.
But as I drink my coffee and wait for the County Recorder to do their thing, I gotta say I’ve been this excited about very few things in my life. My kids (3yo and 1yo) will finally escape apartment prison, I’ll finally have a proper office/shop, and my wife and I can finally stop making improvements to other people’s property.
Sorry about hijacking the thread; we will now return to our regularly scheduled Tales of REO Extortion starring Vincent Price as the evil Asset Manager.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home, drboom! :)[/quote]Thanks, CAR. It has been a long time coming.
Just to keep my Pigg credentials intact, let me say for the record that I will induce vomiting if I hear one more person say “it’s a great time to buy”. I’m convinced that most of my 20% down payment “equity” will evaporate over the next couple of years.
The “take it or leave it” sales terms the OP and I have to put up with are a real treat, too. In my case, the house is in relatively good shape but there is an unbelieveable amount of crap in the yard, the workshop, under the house (wine bottles, yay), in the attic (crazy aunt? haven’t looked closely), etc. This is the first resale for this house (built 1952), so stuff has piled up for decades. I’ll be working my tail off for the next few weeks just to get it ready for us to move in.
But as I drink my coffee and wait for the County Recorder to do their thing, I gotta say I’ve been this excited about very few things in my life. My kids (3yo and 1yo) will finally escape apartment prison, I’ll finally have a proper office/shop, and my wife and I can finally stop making improvements to other people’s property.
Sorry about hijacking the thread; we will now return to our regularly scheduled Tales of REO Extortion starring Vincent Price as the evil Asset Manager.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
Congratulations! Enjoy your new home, drboom! :)[/quote]Thanks, CAR. It has been a long time coming.
Just to keep my Pigg credentials intact, let me say for the record that I will induce vomiting if I hear one more person say “it’s a great time to buy”. I’m convinced that most of my 20% down payment “equity” will evaporate over the next couple of years.
The “take it or leave it” sales terms the OP and I have to put up with are a real treat, too. In my case, the house is in relatively good shape but there is an unbelieveable amount of crap in the yard, the workshop, under the house (wine bottles, yay), in the attic (crazy aunt? haven’t looked closely), etc. This is the first resale for this house (built 1952), so stuff has piled up for decades. I’ll be working my tail off for the next few weeks just to get it ready for us to move in.
But as I drink my coffee and wait for the County Recorder to do their thing, I gotta say I’ve been this excited about very few things in my life. My kids (3yo and 1yo) will finally escape apartment prison, I’ll finally have a proper office/shop, and my wife and I can finally stop making improvements to other people’s property.
Sorry about hijacking the thread; we will now return to our regularly scheduled Tales of REO Extortion starring Vincent Price as the evil Asset Manager.
Participant“Normal” or not, it’s up to you whether you can stomach the terms. I can’t think of any good reason to compress the contingency period if the escrow is the usual 30 days, so see if they will negotiate.
In my case (short sale closing tomorrow–am I a bad Pigg?), the seller’s bank didn’t want to do termite inspection or home warranty. My agent picked up the inspection and we are splitting the warranty cost.
The bank was also fairly emphatic about the closing date (30 day escrow, but not willing to do an extension for any reason), but there weren’t any other unusual terms to the deal.
They picked services, naturally, and I think I got overcharged by a few hundred bucks by the escrow company–OTOH, the escrow guys said short sales are a PITA and claimed to have earned the $1k fee.
Good luck!
Participant“Normal” or not, it’s up to you whether you can stomach the terms. I can’t think of any good reason to compress the contingency period if the escrow is the usual 30 days, so see if they will negotiate.
In my case (short sale closing tomorrow–am I a bad Pigg?), the seller’s bank didn’t want to do termite inspection or home warranty. My agent picked up the inspection and we are splitting the warranty cost.
The bank was also fairly emphatic about the closing date (30 day escrow, but not willing to do an extension for any reason), but there weren’t any other unusual terms to the deal.
They picked services, naturally, and I think I got overcharged by a few hundred bucks by the escrow company–OTOH, the escrow guys said short sales are a PITA and claimed to have earned the $1k fee.
Good luck!
Participant“Normal” or not, it’s up to you whether you can stomach the terms. I can’t think of any good reason to compress the contingency period if the escrow is the usual 30 days, so see if they will negotiate.
In my case (short sale closing tomorrow–am I a bad Pigg?), the seller’s bank didn’t want to do termite inspection or home warranty. My agent picked up the inspection and we are splitting the warranty cost.
The bank was also fairly emphatic about the closing date (30 day escrow, but not willing to do an extension for any reason), but there weren’t any other unusual terms to the deal.
They picked services, naturally, and I think I got overcharged by a few hundred bucks by the escrow company–OTOH, the escrow guys said short sales are a PITA and claimed to have earned the $1k fee.
Good luck!
Participant“Normal” or not, it’s up to you whether you can stomach the terms. I can’t think of any good reason to compress the contingency period if the escrow is the usual 30 days, so see if they will negotiate.
In my case (short sale closing tomorrow–am I a bad Pigg?), the seller’s bank didn’t want to do termite inspection or home warranty. My agent picked up the inspection and we are splitting the warranty cost.
The bank was also fairly emphatic about the closing date (30 day escrow, but not willing to do an extension for any reason), but there weren’t any other unusual terms to the deal.
They picked services, naturally, and I think I got overcharged by a few hundred bucks by the escrow company–OTOH, the escrow guys said short sales are a PITA and claimed to have earned the $1k fee.
Good luck!
Participant“Normal” or not, it’s up to you whether you can stomach the terms. I can’t think of any good reason to compress the contingency period if the escrow is the usual 30 days, so see if they will negotiate.
In my case (short sale closing tomorrow–am I a bad Pigg?), the seller’s bank didn’t want to do termite inspection or home warranty. My agent picked up the inspection and we are splitting the warranty cost.
The bank was also fairly emphatic about the closing date (30 day escrow, but not willing to do an extension for any reason), but there weren’t any other unusual terms to the deal.
They picked services, naturally, and I think I got overcharged by a few hundred bucks by the escrow company–OTOH, the escrow guys said short sales are a PITA and claimed to have earned the $1k fee.
Good luck!
ParticipantOh good grief. I like a good conspiracy theory, but this isn’t one of them.
The current theorists suppose that the Republicans and their various opposition research teams are completely incompetent. I think we can depend on them for stuff like this: they may have trouble winning elections lately, but I’m sure their dirt-digging skills are undiminished.
You can bet that if there was a shred of doubt about Obama’s citizenship it would have been raised early on in the presidential campaign.
ParticipantOh good grief. I like a good conspiracy theory, but this isn’t one of them.
The current theorists suppose that the Republicans and their various opposition research teams are completely incompetent. I think we can depend on them for stuff like this: they may have trouble winning elections lately, but I’m sure their dirt-digging skills are undiminished.
You can bet that if there was a shred of doubt about Obama’s citizenship it would have been raised early on in the presidential campaign.
ParticipantOh good grief. I like a good conspiracy theory, but this isn’t one of them.
The current theorists suppose that the Republicans and their various opposition research teams are completely incompetent. I think we can depend on them for stuff like this: they may have trouble winning elections lately, but I’m sure their dirt-digging skills are undiminished.
You can bet that if there was a shred of doubt about Obama’s citizenship it would have been raised early on in the presidential campaign.
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