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ParticipantRaptorduck,
There should be a buyer’s listing service for you. You could state what you want and what you would pay, value range of course!
I would encourage you to perhaps take some unconventional steps and get your agent to do the same but I think dragging your heals by any means possible is likely helping your cause, If prices in general get to where you like you might want to go knocking on doors,so to speak, or have your agent do it for properties you like that aren’t even listed.There are also ways for your agent to network with other realtors that might help drum up a deal. She might be doing some things already?ParticipantRaptorduck,
There should be a buyer’s listing service for you. You could state what you want and what you would pay, value range of course!
I would encourage you to perhaps take some unconventional steps and get your agent to do the same but I think dragging your heals by any means possible is likely helping your cause, If prices in general get to where you like you might want to go knocking on doors,so to speak, or have your agent do it for properties you like that aren’t even listed.There are also ways for your agent to network with other realtors that might help drum up a deal. She might be doing some things already?Participant“Well, according to him, he has “facial nerve damage” and it is worsened by heat, stress, climate changes. Of course, i think it’s a bunch of bull. His has just started his own “jumper rental” business and estimates his monthly earnings will be between 2-3k.”
I was going to be the first responder to this thread but decide to wait. My hunch was that this disability was a likely hoax as a result or his loss of emploment income. Now the “ballon” thing. Either this guy is very familiar with a lawyer already, or he is well on the road to perdition and is a future deadbeat. In any case doesn’t sound like he is going to be much of a “provider” for a while.
Participant“Well, according to him, he has “facial nerve damage” and it is worsened by heat, stress, climate changes. Of course, i think it’s a bunch of bull. His has just started his own “jumper rental” business and estimates his monthly earnings will be between 2-3k.”
I was going to be the first responder to this thread but decide to wait. My hunch was that this disability was a likely hoax as a result or his loss of emploment income. Now the “ballon” thing. Either this guy is very familiar with a lawyer already, or he is well on the road to perdition and is a future deadbeat. In any case doesn’t sound like he is going to be much of a “provider” for a while.
Participant“Well, according to him, he has “facial nerve damage” and it is worsened by heat, stress, climate changes. Of course, i think it’s a bunch of bull. His has just started his own “jumper rental” business and estimates his monthly earnings will be between 2-3k.”
I was going to be the first responder to this thread but decide to wait. My hunch was that this disability was a likely hoax as a result or his loss of emploment income. Now the “ballon” thing. Either this guy is very familiar with a lawyer already, or he is well on the road to perdition and is a future deadbeat. In any case doesn’t sound like he is going to be much of a “provider” for a while.
Participant“Well, according to him, he has “facial nerve damage” and it is worsened by heat, stress, climate changes. Of course, i think it’s a bunch of bull. His has just started his own “jumper rental” business and estimates his monthly earnings will be between 2-3k.”
I was going to be the first responder to this thread but decide to wait. My hunch was that this disability was a likely hoax as a result or his loss of emploment income. Now the “ballon” thing. Either this guy is very familiar with a lawyer already, or he is well on the road to perdition and is a future deadbeat. In any case doesn’t sound like he is going to be much of a “provider” for a while.
Participant“Well, according to him, he has “facial nerve damage” and it is worsened by heat, stress, climate changes. Of course, i think it’s a bunch of bull. His has just started his own “jumper rental” business and estimates his monthly earnings will be between 2-3k.”
I was going to be the first responder to this thread but decide to wait. My hunch was that this disability was a likely hoax as a result or his loss of emploment income. Now the “ballon” thing. Either this guy is very familiar with a lawyer already, or he is well on the road to perdition and is a future deadbeat. In any case doesn’t sound like he is going to be much of a “provider” for a while.
ParticipantI wouldn’t take it as a given that the bank won’t deal with you. I think you have nothing to lose by being assertive with low offers. Maybe it will help keep you on the sidelines until fate deals you the house you are really hoping to find at a great price or maybe you will get something started with your “low ball”.
In your case you are looking for an above average home and for quite a few things in and about it to satisfy your personal tastes and perhaps those of your wife. You are also reasonably price concious.Because of this combination, you probably ought to offer as low as you want to on all and all homes you find that you like, including short sales. If you were looking for a more average home I would say focus on REO only.
If I were in your shoes(having read most of you posts) I would write low offers and move on. Go back to the properties that you have liked enough to offer on several months later and ask the sellers “what do you think about my offer now?” I guess some people might not be crazy about doing that in a neighborhood they are going to eventually live in.
One other thing you might consider, if you haven’t yet, is buying the house you like and adding the casita(s). It might open the possibities a little. Unfortunately, second houses on one legal A.P.N. don’t seem to add much value. Word to the wise, don’t think about gaining any equity above and beyond your costs this way. I think the second house makes a place more saleable though. Maybe the appraiser “Bugs” has something to say on this matter, if you want to ask.
ParticipantI wouldn’t take it as a given that the bank won’t deal with you. I think you have nothing to lose by being assertive with low offers. Maybe it will help keep you on the sidelines until fate deals you the house you are really hoping to find at a great price or maybe you will get something started with your “low ball”.
In your case you are looking for an above average home and for quite a few things in and about it to satisfy your personal tastes and perhaps those of your wife. You are also reasonably price concious.Because of this combination, you probably ought to offer as low as you want to on all and all homes you find that you like, including short sales. If you were looking for a more average home I would say focus on REO only.
If I were in your shoes(having read most of you posts) I would write low offers and move on. Go back to the properties that you have liked enough to offer on several months later and ask the sellers “what do you think about my offer now?” I guess some people might not be crazy about doing that in a neighborhood they are going to eventually live in.
One other thing you might consider, if you haven’t yet, is buying the house you like and adding the casita(s). It might open the possibities a little. Unfortunately, second houses on one legal A.P.N. don’t seem to add much value. Word to the wise, don’t think about gaining any equity above and beyond your costs this way. I think the second house makes a place more saleable though. Maybe the appraiser “Bugs” has something to say on this matter, if you want to ask.
ParticipantI wouldn’t take it as a given that the bank won’t deal with you. I think you have nothing to lose by being assertive with low offers. Maybe it will help keep you on the sidelines until fate deals you the house you are really hoping to find at a great price or maybe you will get something started with your “low ball”.
In your case you are looking for an above average home and for quite a few things in and about it to satisfy your personal tastes and perhaps those of your wife. You are also reasonably price concious.Because of this combination, you probably ought to offer as low as you want to on all and all homes you find that you like, including short sales. If you were looking for a more average home I would say focus on REO only.
If I were in your shoes(having read most of you posts) I would write low offers and move on. Go back to the properties that you have liked enough to offer on several months later and ask the sellers “what do you think about my offer now?” I guess some people might not be crazy about doing that in a neighborhood they are going to eventually live in.
One other thing you might consider, if you haven’t yet, is buying the house you like and adding the casita(s). It might open the possibities a little. Unfortunately, second houses on one legal A.P.N. don’t seem to add much value. Word to the wise, don’t think about gaining any equity above and beyond your costs this way. I think the second house makes a place more saleable though. Maybe the appraiser “Bugs” has something to say on this matter, if you want to ask.
ParticipantI wouldn’t take it as a given that the bank won’t deal with you. I think you have nothing to lose by being assertive with low offers. Maybe it will help keep you on the sidelines until fate deals you the house you are really hoping to find at a great price or maybe you will get something started with your “low ball”.
In your case you are looking for an above average home and for quite a few things in and about it to satisfy your personal tastes and perhaps those of your wife. You are also reasonably price concious.Because of this combination, you probably ought to offer as low as you want to on all and all homes you find that you like, including short sales. If you were looking for a more average home I would say focus on REO only.
If I were in your shoes(having read most of you posts) I would write low offers and move on. Go back to the properties that you have liked enough to offer on several months later and ask the sellers “what do you think about my offer now?” I guess some people might not be crazy about doing that in a neighborhood they are going to eventually live in.
One other thing you might consider, if you haven’t yet, is buying the house you like and adding the casita(s). It might open the possibities a little. Unfortunately, second houses on one legal A.P.N. don’t seem to add much value. Word to the wise, don’t think about gaining any equity above and beyond your costs this way. I think the second house makes a place more saleable though. Maybe the appraiser “Bugs” has something to say on this matter, if you want to ask.
ParticipantI wouldn’t take it as a given that the bank won’t deal with you. I think you have nothing to lose by being assertive with low offers. Maybe it will help keep you on the sidelines until fate deals you the house you are really hoping to find at a great price or maybe you will get something started with your “low ball”.
In your case you are looking for an above average home and for quite a few things in and about it to satisfy your personal tastes and perhaps those of your wife. You are also reasonably price concious.Because of this combination, you probably ought to offer as low as you want to on all and all homes you find that you like, including short sales. If you were looking for a more average home I would say focus on REO only.
If I were in your shoes(having read most of you posts) I would write low offers and move on. Go back to the properties that you have liked enough to offer on several months later and ask the sellers “what do you think about my offer now?” I guess some people might not be crazy about doing that in a neighborhood they are going to eventually live in.
One other thing you might consider, if you haven’t yet, is buying the house you like and adding the casita(s). It might open the possibities a little. Unfortunately, second houses on one legal A.P.N. don’t seem to add much value. Word to the wise, don’t think about gaining any equity above and beyond your costs this way. I think the second house makes a place more saleable though. Maybe the appraiser “Bugs” has something to say on this matter, if you want to ask.
ParticipantTo me it is much more complex than that 4-plex. At our level ,yours and mine,I could see what you are saying, but we are voting on the national level where handouts to the rich or poor are just one aspect of a huge collection of agendas, and on which issue the main parties have seemingly decided to be as close to polar opposites as possible,each keeping being electable in mind of course. It is likely democrats fail on all other items and agendas with you. However, it would be fair to say the issues are much more nuanced than what happens to your paycheck and the self esteem issues of nearly half our country’s populace.
Good Morning BTW
ParticipantTo me it is much more complex than that 4-plex. At our level ,yours and mine,I could see what you are saying, but we are voting on the national level where handouts to the rich or poor are just one aspect of a huge collection of agendas, and on which issue the main parties have seemingly decided to be as close to polar opposites as possible,each keeping being electable in mind of course. It is likely democrats fail on all other items and agendas with you. However, it would be fair to say the issues are much more nuanced than what happens to your paycheck and the self esteem issues of nearly half our country’s populace.
Good Morning BTW
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