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ParticipantThe reason i let my wife make the all decision is because I don’t like arguing with her. Here is your budget and stick to it. And yet, she comes back and asks “Sweety, what do you think of this?” or tries to drag me along shopping with her.
When we first bought our first home, i wanted to divorce her because we argued about every little thing. It gets tiring after a while. I’m practical and she’s material. I like modern and she likes antique, especially “cherry” color. On and On.
If you’re not married yet make sure you ask your other half to be about buying a house and what to furnish with it. It will save you a lot of headaches.
ParticipantThe reason i let my wife make the all decision is because I don’t like arguing with her. Here is your budget and stick to it. And yet, she comes back and asks “Sweety, what do you think of this?” or tries to drag me along shopping with her.
When we first bought our first home, i wanted to divorce her because we argued about every little thing. It gets tiring after a while. I’m practical and she’s material. I like modern and she likes antique, especially “cherry” color. On and On.
If you’re not married yet make sure you ask your other half to be about buying a house and what to furnish with it. It will save you a lot of headaches.
Participantoops…typo…
Does anyone know what is the builder’s margin on homes? I asked a few agents but they won’t divulge.
If they could afford to give incentives the margin’s gotta be pretty good.
ParticipantWhen i bought my first house through FSBO i don’t recall that much paperwork at all besides the loan documents. We just sat down together and went through each item of the standard sales agreement the seller bought from the bookstore. All the paperwork were handle by escrow. And when i sold there was a transaction coordinator that charged us $450.
When i bought I should have had the home inspected and find out comps of the area, but i was ignorant. Using an agent would have helped us learned more about the process. I didn’t even know that you needed or should use one.
When i sold I did FSBO and had a friend, from Help U Sell, listed in the MLS for me. One thing i noticed was that the only agent who showed up were the ones that wanted to be my agent if the house didn’t sell.
One other things i noticed around my neighborhood was that the homes using Help U Sell were not selling. This was going on for about three months. Then it hit me……the agents were probably boycotting the discounters. It’s not openly discussed but probably talked about behind the doors at the big firms.
My house sold because the buyer droved by and then told his agent about it.
After the listing were expired, the homes in my neighborhood used the conventional agent/broker and the homes were sold within a month or less. That confirmed my conspiracy theory.
ParticipantFormerSanDiegan,
I’m sorry but i don’t he clearly stated everything to me. All he said was that he took equity out of the first and I asked “and bought the second with it?” and he said yes. And he owes $515K on the second, but he said he only bought it for $450K. Which doesn’t make sense.
I guess he took equity immediately on the 2nd and used the 1st equity on something else.
ParticipantWe’ve moved to TN about two months now. Got here in the summer and it sure it humid, but the temperature has dropped to the mid 80s.
We went to Costco in Brentwood, TN to get new tires and I showed my ID to the cashier. He said “I know at least one person from California every month”.
In SD alone I know of at least 20 families who moved to Arizona, the midwest or the east coast.
We’ll probably head back to SD when the housing price is right. We’re contemplating buying in Brentwood, TN because the prices are like SD but you get a bigger house. 4000 sq ft homes are in the mid $600K.
From 2004 to now the prices has jumped from the mid 400s to 800s in some area. I dont’ know if this is another bubble. We’ll see.
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