I was looking at that earlier. I was amused by the fact the first thing you see when you walk in the front door seems to be the refrigerator!
It is pretty but yes, very white. The front looks so much better.
I think if you are flipping a house now - this is the go to color pallet. In a few years it will be something else. Over time the owners will change it to reflect more of their own personality.
I finally called the listing agent with the Fleetridge Sou th er n wood house. “I’m sure I replied to your email”. " Your offer is lower than all my other offers so the Seller will not be responding"
It will be interesting to see if she notices that I requested Sellers initials of receipt on the offer doc.
I’ll be out looking for some more frogs to kiss this weekend.
I’m not going to call the agent for Charles until next week. I’ll play the waiting game and see if he has any offers.
What a nasty, lying through her teeth agent. So convenient to say “I replied to your email” and then blame the spam filter.
Well then good…if your offer IS lower…the house should go pending this weekend.
I’m betting…it doesn’t.
Drove around and inspected 3 homes this weekend. Zip, nada…everything over priced. I just have to wait for prices to go down.
BTW…the Tivoli property is still listed at 995k but the agent has been trying to rent it for 3 weeks. Started at $3,750 and down to $3,250 today.
Meanwhile my agent received a somewhat nasty email from the buyer of last project. Gate has swollen up a bit and won’t close properly and the City trash cans need replacement. And a small bit of moisture at bottom of garage wall from the rains a couple of weeks ago. I think this is not really my responsibility 4 months later but we are going to have to tread lightly
Why would city trash cans ever be your responsibility? As the homeowner, can’t he request them from the city?
Yes, as the owner has to order new trash cans but they charge $75 each and he wants me to pay for them since they were in bad condition when he bought the house.
Didn’t he have a chance during inspection to note the condition of the trash cans and request new ones if they were unusable?
Are they really trashed (no pun intended) and non-functional, or does he just want pretty ones? OTOH, $150 is not a lot of money to fix a problem.
Seems like the gate would be a fairly easy adjustment.
He probably wouldn’t have brought up the trash cans if the other two things hadn’t happened. I agree that four months is quite a long time for them to uncover a problem and complain about it. On the other hand, a little bit of $$$ might satisfy them and keep your reputation intact.
Wow, what a high maintenance buyer! NRE is correct - anything easily discoverable is on the buyer. I doubt CA is any different. Moreover, in my state, even stuff not easily discoverable is on the buyer unless the seller knew and tried to conceal it.
I would have your realtor send him an email with some contact info for contractors he can hire to fix whatever issues arise…
My agent advised me that I shouldn’t start going down the rat hole of paying for all kinds of small fixes. It could go on for years. I think his biggest concern is drainage issues. He sent a video of water splashing out of the new gutters we installed in the front of the house. It’s happening right at the big valley area over front door. It’s not the end of the world because there is a French drain right under the area. But he’s obsessed with drainage issues. We don’t really have that much rain.
At this point I need to back away slowly. So his agent has agreed to find an independent gutter company to assess the situation. I think a simple splash guard will Solve the problem.
Did he move there from Texas? We have neighbors from Texas… they were paranoid about every drop of water… Got used to it after living here for 16 years. 
Your agent gave you great advice!
DH would remember better than me, but I think after we moved in, we took an old cracked trash can to the main facility by Miramar and the city replaced it for free.
Frankly, the buyer sounds like a lunatic to me. Has this guy ever actually owned a house in a place where it occasionally rains?
I’m really glad you’re not going to step in and fix/pay for their requested items. Four months??? Four days may, but not four months. Every house comes with its issues. If we all expected the builder to foot the bill for everything that went wrong, housing prices would soar.
I called our builder for something that needed attention. We were the second owners, I asked him for advice on who we needed to call. He told us. But then he immediately sent his guy over to fix it. It was a nice surprise, but not expected.
If there’s a glaring defect, I don’t think 4 months is an unreasonable time to expect the builder to stand behind their work.
I don’t think a sticky gate qualifies as glaring, and old trash cans definitely don’t. Depending on what “a small bit of moisture at bottom of garage wall” really is, it may or may not be reasonable to expect a fix. Can’t really judge without more details.
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I went out to a Broker Open House today and I really like this house that just went up for sale.
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I contacted the agent and he was really nice and supportive. They do not have any offers yet, but property has only been on the market since Monday. Sale is being managed by an independent fiduciary agent (probably out of town) for the heirs. So, he won’t have unreasonable expectations of some ridiculous high price for the house.
Has good bones, basic infrastructure is intact. This could be a fun project where I can concentrate on maximizing the layout and design. I would like to just do some redesign and bring it back out at a good price for a family. No view potential. I am going to contact the agent at the end of the today tomorrow and see if he thinks there is any wiggle room in the price.
The problem is going to be that I don’t have enough money to purchase the house and do the renovations, so I will need to line up some heavy investors, which increases my holding costs quite a lot.
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I don’t see a listing for the other one.