The Sellers have replied back that they want to keep the close date at Monday February 1st. Everyone is worried that brother won’t get on the plane Friday (will have some type of excuse) and maybe they have to put him into their car on Saturday or something? I’m not sure I am getting the full story - if he doesn’t get on the plane on Friday, what difference does another 2 days make? They’ll just have to get him out on Friday somehow anyway.
I have no idea why Sellers would want to postpone an escrow when they have nothing in their contract requiring them to clear out the house. I’ve made it very clear that I don’t care if they clear out all the stuff or not.
I am now going to have to work with the escrow company to see if I can wire funds into escrow early Monday morning and close on that same day. I’ve pulled off miracles like that before, but usually with my own escrow company that has known me for several years. This is the listing agent’s escrow company.
Normally I would agree. But there has been a dumpster at the house for one week. Brother has been moving stuff out to pickup trucks because he is selling tools and things from the garage to his friends’. I’m just hoping the friends aren’t a bunch of homeless creeps that are going to keep trying to come back into the house.
There was no furniture remaining in the house when I went through inspections, just trash and brother’s crap like sleeping bags, underwear, dirty clothes, dirty dishes, old TV propped up on a 1970s TV stand and a mattress on floor. Some items are in the garage, but they don’t look like ‘treasures’ to me. And, supposedly brother is getting on plane and all his belongings are going to be out on Friday.
I just cannot figure out what, of any value, needs to be ‘moved’ over the weekend. But, it’s really none of my business… just wasting time trying to analyze the situation.
All the extra cars are gone today, so I guess the guests have left. I don’t even want to know where in the world the guests were sleeping. Dumpster and brother’s car are the only things left in the back of the house.
Yes, I believe it is the house they grew up in. I have been informed that sisters are done and over and just need to get rid of it and move on. Brother is the one having a hard time
It can be tough letting go of a place where you grew up. My folks are likely selling the house we grew up in and D says it will be sad that someone else will own it and likely tear the place down and rebuild. She has fond memories of playing at that house, as we all do.
We sold the house our son grew up in and it’s been torn down; he won’t even drive to that part of town. DH was much much more sentimental about the house he lived in from when he was 15, so wasn’t even there all that much once he started college. But it’s the place he most considered home - more than where we lived for 28 years. I was just happy to be leaving the raggedy old place - I used to say it was tearing itself down.
H is still VERY sentimental about the place he lived for nearly 4 decades with his folks. It’s still standing but likely will be torn down or extensively renovated at some point because it’s only 800 square feet and has 66 steps to the front door with an amazing unobstructed view. For now, every time he visits the place and sees changes, it bothers him. He was even upset when the tenant wanted to put in a fridge that was larger than the one which was in the house when he grew up! He’s getting better about it, since he hasn’t lived there in 3 decades but he notices and is unhappy with changes to the place. Since my folks haven’t yet sold their place, I haven’t faced that yet. The place I lived from birth to age 7 is occupied by a cousin who has made a lot of changes. I barely remember it from all those decades back, other than it was a nice short walk to the beach that we loved walking along.
I’m executrix of my father’s estate, trying to sell the house he had built in 1955
for $14k. We grew up in that house, my parents lived there their entire marriage, they both passed in that house - nearly 60 yrs together there. Let me tell you I wish we had CA prices in NJ!! It’s a lovely smaller house but geez, buyers want new kitchens and granite or they call it a fixer upper!!
I find that first time home buyers are the most unreasonable. They think everything is supposed to be perfect, fully warrantied, nothing wrong and looking like the house came straight out of a magazine. They usually don’t have ‘vision’ to see past horrible paint, formica countertops or brass faucets. Move up buyers are more realistic, but they are looking for specific features in a house. If it’s a growing family then they want a lot of square feet (whether they really need it or not). Downsizing buyers are looking for something that matches their exact requirements.
So, homes that would appeal to first time home buyers usually benefit from a lot of cosmetic fixes before you try to sell. The percentage of first time home buyers who have the skills or desire to update anything is very small.
Things have changed a lot. My H and I probably spent every single weekend trying to clean up, fix and update our first house.
