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[quote=briansd1]What is the proper Feng Shui orientation?[/quote]

That’s pretty funny as when I tried my google-fu at this most of the sites that came up were about Feng Shui. Unfortunately I am one of those crazy people who don’t care if my Yin and Yang are out of balance!

There is a hill to the West and the Street is to the east.

Wish I could check the place out in January, but that won’t be possible. Like SDR, I have preferred to have the backyard face south.

Trying to figure out if I should veto the wife over this issue. Just about everything else is a win. Solar may have room on hill but that may bring up another issue — can you put solar (PV) on designated “open space”?

Thanks again gang.

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[quote=briansd1]What is the proper Feng Shui orientation?[/quote]

That’s pretty funny as when I tried my google-fu at this most of the sites that came up were about Feng Shui. Unfortunately I am one of those crazy people who don’t care if my Yin and Yang are out of balance!

There is a hill to the West and the Street is to the east.

Wish I could check the place out in January, but that won’t be possible. Like SDR, I have preferred to have the backyard face south.

Trying to figure out if I should veto the wife over this issue. Just about everything else is a win. Solar may have room on hill but that may bring up another issue — can you put solar (PV) on designated “open space”?

Thanks again gang.

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[quote=briansd1]What is the proper Feng Shui orientation?[/quote]

That’s pretty funny as when I tried my google-fu at this most of the sites that came up were about Feng Shui. Unfortunately I am one of those crazy people who don’t care if my Yin and Yang are out of balance!

There is a hill to the West and the Street is to the east.

Wish I could check the place out in January, but that won’t be possible. Like SDR, I have preferred to have the backyard face south.

Trying to figure out if I should veto the wife over this issue. Just about everything else is a win. Solar may have room on hill but that may bring up another issue — can you put solar (PV) on designated “open space”?

Thanks again gang.

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[quote=briansd1]What is the proper Feng Shui orientation?[/quote]

That’s pretty funny as when I tried my google-fu at this most of the sites that came up were about Feng Shui. Unfortunately I am one of those crazy people who don’t care if my Yin and Yang are out of balance!

There is a hill to the West and the Street is to the east.

Wish I could check the place out in January, but that won’t be possible. Like SDR, I have preferred to have the backyard face south.

Trying to figure out if I should veto the wife over this issue. Just about everything else is a win. Solar may have room on hill but that may bring up another issue — can you put solar (PV) on designated “open space”?

Thanks again gang.

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[quote=briansd1]What is the proper Feng Shui orientation?[/quote]

That’s pretty funny as when I tried my google-fu at this most of the sites that came up were about Feng Shui. Unfortunately I am one of those crazy people who don’t care if my Yin and Yang are out of balance!

There is a hill to the West and the Street is to the east.

Wish I could check the place out in January, but that won’t be possible. Like SDR, I have preferred to have the backyard face south.

Trying to figure out if I should veto the wife over this issue. Just about everything else is a win. Solar may have room on hill but that may bring up another issue — can you put solar (PV) on designated “open space”?

Thanks again gang.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Did you guys actually submit an offer? If you did and it was higher then the price the home sold for you “may” be able to at least file a complaint with the DRE if you can somehow prove the offer you submitted was indeed more competitive then what was accepted.

Correct, even if you had the lender info you could not have gotten anything straight from the lender. Your agent should have known that.[/quote]

I can’t remember for sure at this point. We first tried contacting the listing agent but were repeatedly ignored and when we did get through were told nonsense that seemed to brush us off. This went on for months. We finally got a buyer’s agent (yes, maybe we should have done this earlier, but not sure it would have helped) who was also blown off and eventually told — I think — to not bother, it is off the market. We kept watching but nothing until months later it sold for less then we wanted to pay. We may or may not have signed a written offer but it was two years ago and I’m not sure. Possibly we did not. The agent didn’t tell us we could contact the lender, that’s just something we kept telling ourselves we wish we could do as we wanted the house and couldn’t get any coherent response from the listing agent. I have been told by an agent that she’s heard of agents listing a place on the MLS for the shortest time and telling the lender this is what the market will bear as someone they knew came in with a low cash offer. Not sure if this is myth or not but looking at some numbers on Redfin it looks like it could happen.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Did you guys actually submit an offer? If you did and it was higher then the price the home sold for you “may” be able to at least file a complaint with the DRE if you can somehow prove the offer you submitted was indeed more competitive then what was accepted.

Correct, even if you had the lender info you could not have gotten anything straight from the lender. Your agent should have known that.[/quote]

I can’t remember for sure at this point. We first tried contacting the listing agent but were repeatedly ignored and when we did get through were told nonsense that seemed to brush us off. This went on for months. We finally got a buyer’s agent (yes, maybe we should have done this earlier, but not sure it would have helped) who was also blown off and eventually told — I think — to not bother, it is off the market. We kept watching but nothing until months later it sold for less then we wanted to pay. We may or may not have signed a written offer but it was two years ago and I’m not sure. Possibly we did not. The agent didn’t tell us we could contact the lender, that’s just something we kept telling ourselves we wish we could do as we wanted the house and couldn’t get any coherent response from the listing agent. I have been told by an agent that she’s heard of agents listing a place on the MLS for the shortest time and telling the lender this is what the market will bear as someone they knew came in with a low cash offer. Not sure if this is myth or not but looking at some numbers on Redfin it looks like it could happen.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Did you guys actually submit an offer? If you did and it was higher then the price the home sold for you “may” be able to at least file a complaint with the DRE if you can somehow prove the offer you submitted was indeed more competitive then what was accepted.

Correct, even if you had the lender info you could not have gotten anything straight from the lender. Your agent should have known that.[/quote]

I can’t remember for sure at this point. We first tried contacting the listing agent but were repeatedly ignored and when we did get through were told nonsense that seemed to brush us off. This went on for months. We finally got a buyer’s agent (yes, maybe we should have done this earlier, but not sure it would have helped) who was also blown off and eventually told — I think — to not bother, it is off the market. We kept watching but nothing until months later it sold for less then we wanted to pay. We may or may not have signed a written offer but it was two years ago and I’m not sure. Possibly we did not. The agent didn’t tell us we could contact the lender, that’s just something we kept telling ourselves we wish we could do as we wanted the house and couldn’t get any coherent response from the listing agent. I have been told by an agent that she’s heard of agents listing a place on the MLS for the shortest time and telling the lender this is what the market will bear as someone they knew came in with a low cash offer. Not sure if this is myth or not but looking at some numbers on Redfin it looks like it could happen.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Did you guys actually submit an offer? If you did and it was higher then the price the home sold for you “may” be able to at least file a complaint with the DRE if you can somehow prove the offer you submitted was indeed more competitive then what was accepted.

Correct, even if you had the lender info you could not have gotten anything straight from the lender. Your agent should have known that.[/quote]

I can’t remember for sure at this point. We first tried contacting the listing agent but were repeatedly ignored and when we did get through were told nonsense that seemed to brush us off. This went on for months. We finally got a buyer’s agent (yes, maybe we should have done this earlier, but not sure it would have helped) who was also blown off and eventually told — I think — to not bother, it is off the market. We kept watching but nothing until months later it sold for less then we wanted to pay. We may or may not have signed a written offer but it was two years ago and I’m not sure. Possibly we did not. The agent didn’t tell us we could contact the lender, that’s just something we kept telling ourselves we wish we could do as we wanted the house and couldn’t get any coherent response from the listing agent. I have been told by an agent that she’s heard of agents listing a place on the MLS for the shortest time and telling the lender this is what the market will bear as someone they knew came in with a low cash offer. Not sure if this is myth or not but looking at some numbers on Redfin it looks like it could happen.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Did you guys actually submit an offer? If you did and it was higher then the price the home sold for you “may” be able to at least file a complaint with the DRE if you can somehow prove the offer you submitted was indeed more competitive then what was accepted.

Correct, even if you had the lender info you could not have gotten anything straight from the lender. Your agent should have known that.[/quote]

I can’t remember for sure at this point. We first tried contacting the listing agent but were repeatedly ignored and when we did get through were told nonsense that seemed to brush us off. This went on for months. We finally got a buyer’s agent (yes, maybe we should have done this earlier, but not sure it would have helped) who was also blown off and eventually told — I think — to not bother, it is off the market. We kept watching but nothing until months later it sold for less then we wanted to pay. We may or may not have signed a written offer but it was two years ago and I’m not sure. Possibly we did not. The agent didn’t tell us we could contact the lender, that’s just something we kept telling ourselves we wish we could do as we wanted the house and couldn’t get any coherent response from the listing agent. I have been told by an agent that she’s heard of agents listing a place on the MLS for the shortest time and telling the lender this is what the market will bear as someone they knew came in with a low cash offer. Not sure if this is myth or not but looking at some numbers on Redfin it looks like it could happen.

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Lots of great info here.

We once wanted to know the lender to try and have our agent contact directly because we suspected the listing agent was dodging us in order to get someone she knew a short sale property as low in price as possible.

We couldn’t get her to respond or take an offer from us, finally we got an agent who contacted her and she said it was off the market.

Three months later it sold for less than we tried to offer.

Maybe everything was on the up and up, but everything about the way the listing agent responded to us, even when it was clearly on the market suggested she did not want to sell it. So we were left suspicious she told the lender “sorry, this is the best the market will bear” as a friend of hers got a steal. We could be wrong, but that’s what we think happened.

So we’ve thought we wished we could have contacted, or had an agent contact, the lender directly, but reading this it appears they would not have talked to us anyway.

[faterikcartman]

Lots of great info here.

We once wanted to know the lender to try and have our agent contact directly because we suspected the listing agent was dodging us in order to get someone she knew a short sale property as low in price as possible.

We couldn’t get her to respond or take an offer from us, finally we got an agent who contacted her and she said it was off the market.

Three months later it sold for less than we tried to offer.

Maybe everything was on the up and up, but everything about the way the listing agent responded to us, even when it was clearly on the market suggested she did not want to sell it. So we were left suspicious she told the lender “sorry, this is the best the market will bear” as a friend of hers got a steal. We could be wrong, but that’s what we think happened.

So we’ve thought we wished we could have contacted, or had an agent contact, the lender directly, but reading this it appears they would not have talked to us anyway.

[faterikcartman]

Lots of great info here.

We once wanted to know the lender to try and have our agent contact directly because we suspected the listing agent was dodging us in order to get someone she knew a short sale property as low in price as possible.

We couldn’t get her to respond or take an offer from us, finally we got an agent who contacted her and she said it was off the market.

Three months later it sold for less than we tried to offer.

Maybe everything was on the up and up, but everything about the way the listing agent responded to us, even when it was clearly on the market suggested she did not want to sell it. So we were left suspicious she told the lender “sorry, this is the best the market will bear” as a friend of hers got a steal. We could be wrong, but that’s what we think happened.

So we’ve thought we wished we could have contacted, or had an agent contact, the lender directly, but reading this it appears they would not have talked to us anyway.

[faterikcartman]

Lots of great info here.

We once wanted to know the lender to try and have our agent contact directly because we suspected the listing agent was dodging us in order to get someone she knew a short sale property as low in price as possible.

We couldn’t get her to respond or take an offer from us, finally we got an agent who contacted her and she said it was off the market.

Three months later it sold for less than we tried to offer.

Maybe everything was on the up and up, but everything about the way the listing agent responded to us, even when it was clearly on the market suggested she did not want to sell it. So we were left suspicious she told the lender “sorry, this is the best the market will bear” as a friend of hers got a steal. We could be wrong, but that’s what we think happened.

So we’ve thought we wished we could have contacted, or had an agent contact, the lender directly, but reading this it appears they would not have talked to us anyway.

[faterikcartman]

Lots of great info here.

We once wanted to know the lender to try and have our agent contact directly because we suspected the listing agent was dodging us in order to get someone she knew a short sale property as low in price as possible.

We couldn’t get her to respond or take an offer from us, finally we got an agent who contacted her and she said it was off the market.

Three months later it sold for less than we tried to offer.

Maybe everything was on the up and up, but everything about the way the listing agent responded to us, even when it was clearly on the market suggested she did not want to sell it. So we were left suspicious she told the lender “sorry, this is the best the market will bear” as a friend of hers got a steal. We could be wrong, but that’s what we think happened.

So we’ve thought we wished we could have contacted, or had an agent contact, the lender directly, but reading this it appears they would not have talked to us anyway.

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