Detailed Qs better mean seriousness of potential buyers. We look forward to reading that you’re getting competing amazing offers–SOON!
Yes, questions are going to my agent but I have to draft the answers
Right…to,the agent…not on Zillow!
When are the folks working with their banks going to get their acts together???
No showings today but 2 showings scheduled for tomorrow. We find it interesting that these showings with serious buyers are all out of area agents, not the local Pt Loma agents. After months of local agents calling and visiting wanting the listing claiming they had a bunch of pent up buyers looking for this exact house:)
Of the last 2 flips in Pt Loma both were sold via out of area agents bringing buyers. Hoarder House was sold to Chicago couple who were just driving by looking at flyer and I invited them in to look around.
I think the Tesla buyers lost the buyer to their house so their agent is not calling much anymore. Last we heard their buyers were dragging their feet getting estimates for the remodel they wanted to do. Most likely someone went in and told them standard $50k kitchen, $25k each bath and scared the potential buyers
^^ perhaps you should go to repair their house so you can close yours. 
Serious questions are nice – they demonstrate, ummm, seriousness – but I am frankly surprised that after all these showings, and many repeat showings, and numerous serious questions, no one has yet made an offer. Is it going to be the case that once there is one offer on the table, others will jump in?
In my neck of the woods, your asking price is not at all unusual. In fact, in my town we have many many houses selling for $2, $3 and $4 million. Admittedly, nothing sells quickly – many houses are on the market for months and months. Is it the case that the higher the price, the slower the sale?
" Is it the case that the higher the price, the slower the sale?"
yes because the higher the $$ the smaller the pool of buyers who can afford the $$.
so it takes more targeted marketing and more time to sell more expensive houses.
We are not Silicon Valley, but… In some areas here, anything under $2M that is not a complete teardown or an ugly fixer flies off the market in a day or two. A house like CB’s would have had a major price war - and probably a realtor fistfight! 
Move a couple of miles north, and homes take much longer to sell, like a couple of weeks.
I think CB will get her buyer soon. Here, the sellers would not entertain a list of Qs. They would tell the buyers to preinspect.
Would the required disclosures answer most of the questions? At some point it seems your agent shouldn’t have to spend time providing answers to a ton of oddball questions. I know with many of our questions we were told they would be answered in the inspection and disclosures.
But probably better to answer the questions and weed out the serious from the borderline. Otherwise…an offer would need to be submitted for those inspections, right? And that would tie up the works, maybe unnecessarily.
“What materials were used for construction?”
“Well, we used lamp cord to wire up the 30 new circuits, the cardboard box the fridge came in is now the bathroom walls, there was some 50 year old lead paint in the basement that we used on the fence…”
If a buyer wants to dot every “i” and cross every “t” before they’re willing to make an offer, that doesn’t sound like a motivated buyer. Not that the questions so far are necessarily minor. But at some point the buyers’ agent should be doing their own due diligence. I know cb wants to be as helpful as possible but it doesn’t seem like an uncommitted buyer should be getting all the detailed structural plans at this stage. If someone asked “what materials were used for construction”, I would ask the buyers’ agent to find out what they really wanted to know. And I would just say that the final inspection was signed off; not give a copy until an offer is submitted. TMI at this point could just scare some people off. Once the offer is submitted, the sale becomes a desired outcome and perceived problems start becoming solvable instead of roadblocks.
That’s a good perspective Marilyn. I always err on the side of telling the ‘ugly’ as soon as possible so we don’t waste our time with buyers that are not right for an 80 year old house. But maybe I should just wait until they put their offer on the table.
There are some people who want everything ‘guaranteed’. In California, sales are ‘As Is’ and the buyer needs to do all their inspections, etc. before they remove their inspection contingency. But a lot of buyers don’t understand that and think they are buying a brand new tract home with some kind of developer 10 year warranty or something. For heavens sake. You want a historical 80 year old house with character??? Guess what comes with that… maintenance
Why I do not even bother to get a manicure… this job is not glamorous
Today we tried to work on the new roof tiles. Yesterday I took an old and new tile into Dunn Edwards and asked for an exact paint match. She warned me that we are going to have to hand sand all 200 tiles to get the sheen / sealer off the new tiles so that the paint will adhere correctly.
So… we all had to pitch in with 80 grit sandpaper and form an assembly line for sanding all the roof tiles. We only got about 120 done by 2pm. But, I only had the painter available for this one day so we stopped and laid them all out on the mulch (which is coming in very handy instead of a mud pit in back yard) and got out the sprayer. Sprayer doesn’t work after many tries (it was an old cheapo from my garage) and then we got out our compressor gun sprayer and it didn’t work either. So, it is all hands on deck with paint brushes brushing onto the tiles. At first it looked like the paint did not match at all… another version of baby poop coming out of the can. But luckily it dried to a reasonable likeness. I made the guys keep going up a big ladder and holding them up to the old tiles so we could figure out exactly how thick to paint onto the tile.
I have sanded off all fingernails and am covered in brown weird paint in my eagerness to ‘help’
I loaded some photos of the roof tiles getting sanded
I also did a ‘walk’ through the garage and basement area and loaded some photos as a tour so you can get a visual of the bottom floor, the exterior closet and the door entries. We are still trying to clear out the basement - I have no idea how so much stuff is still in there! Inevitably every day we realize we need something that we already hauled off to the garage and I am going back/forth getting something we need which goes back into that dang basement!!
Yes, @notrichenough … I didn’t even know how to begin to answer that question!! Maybe he wanted to know steel studs versus lumber studs or something. Or steel welded beams versus wood beams versus engineered ibeams. But I didn’t even want to start going into details.
NRE, lol, love that list - and don’t forget the asbestos that was scraped off the ceilings and got re-purposed as the attic insulation.
Maybe the buyers are fishing for products awaiting class action lawsuits… Like some PEX piping. But that would require disclosing the specific brands because not all PEX is suspect! Or another guess: they are vegan and want no animal products or no trees harmed in the making of the products?
Jokes aside… That is an odd request.
Perhaps the buyers are sending odd questions to buy some time.
As of 7:50pm PST we have received an offer and we are expecting one or two more tomorrow.
Here we go!!
Yaaaaaay!! Congrats