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“………….I see debt people”

brilliant !

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q and g look similar, c and t sound similar.
but don’t be fooled by appearances.
my two cents.

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thanks. yes. there were some contingencies. he asked for a 15k credit on repairs and upgrades. i gave him 9k and he was satisfied with that.
he wanted a very short escrow too.

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i agree. just being tongue in cheek about buyer psychology. having gone through a stressful month of selling, waiting, negotiating, listening to my agent, that single factor emerged the strongest.

i hope to close this week.

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So the poker move helped it seems…
As I’d posted earlier, I dropped the price by $5000, though the buyer’s offer had come in $100k lower than our listing.
If I’d matched his offer he would’ve felt his aggressiveness was well-founded. I’m sure he would’ve then gone on to demand all kinds of credits (repairs, maintenance).
I guess my resistance to drop the price more than a token was well-taken by him. My house has been fastiduously well-maintained and is still the nicest house in the neighborhood.
He signed the offer recently. His inspections are in and he’s satisfied enough to remove contingencies.
Now I hope the appraisal comes in ok.
I’m also selling him my furniture. I want to leave with a couch and all my books. It’s time to sketch, write and travel.
I signed a rental lease with an artist loft.

Absurd thought for the day: It struck me people buy cars all the time. That’s a known depreciating asset but the majority of the population buys a depreciating asset. Despite subscribing to most of the doom and gloom here, I hate to roll up the blinds, but unless the pivotal idea of ownership changes in a society, people will always buy something of value…it’s not all a scam

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here we go again…

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lmao

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bow tie pasta

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http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/26/commentary/sivy/sivy.moneymag/index.htm?postversion=2006092606

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my neighbor is also selling a house at the same time aas us. when she bought her house, the previous owner had left behind a covered patio extension to the rear. they did reface the cladding and interior and i think it fit pretty seamlessly.
she met me today and said she she has an offer. she isn’t leaning toward disclosing it but feels uneasy. living next to her, i can’t even tell the difference so i told her it should be fine.
but i realized can this affect her home inspection?

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the strategy is a little poker-like right now, and not something i’m keen on. lowball man sent in the offer friday, just before my second, well-publicized open house. his agent is known to be a very aggressive person from beverly hills and has (correctly) advised him to come in really low.
i’m humble and not stupid enough to avoid feeling “insulted”. it’s a game in many ways.
my initial gamble was to list the house low – consensus opinion – and anticipate the drop. but price of course, is relative and if i’d priced it even a 100k lower i suspect his approach would’ve been the same. damned if you do…
in the current round, if i counter at a high price (just 5k lower than listing) i can try to “insult” him. he will probably walk. but if i counter low, he will have figured his hunch was correct and he will never raise. my only basis for this idea is that he came back with his offer today and has removed the 24 hr clause.
i feel like i’m bluffing and i’m not too pleased with the concept, but my hunch is to head this way. guinea pig update…

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dude’s hurt

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whoops, looks like my browser cache didn’t update this thread for half the day.
bgates, i respect your effort in drawing the WW2 analogy, but i disagree. the flaw imo is that you cannot use the “idealism” principle with the “expedient” one.
it’s also expedient to send in swat teams into an alcoholic’s house, but it doesn’t mean we need to. WW2 was a ‘last option’ of sorts so the anything goes argument holds. the iraq war was not a last option.
i admire your tenacity. but i need convincing. there, i’ve said it in the nicest possible way. please scroll back to anything i’ve said. i don’t descend to personal attacks. we can have reason over emotion in this debate.

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“They are evil, we are not”

I’m sure our noble allies saudi arabia and pakistan will testify to that

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come to think of it…”flawed intelligence” is a good description for the current man in power

bombing an aspirin factory vs. bombing a whole country. where’s the equivalence? is there such a dearth of good arguments that an ex-president’s record needs to be dug up to justify the failures of the current one?

so let’s say howard dean was president and blamed everything on reagan…

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