<p>No one has come to see our house for two weeks. :(</p>
<p>I guess we’re now known as “stale” – after 60 days.</p>
<p>Sellers and buyers should hold their real estate agents’ passports until house deals close!</p>
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<p>I find that amazing that the realtor doesn’t have another realtor handling his/her listings while away. What happens if an offer comes in? I have never heard of, or seen, that happening.</p>
<p>alwaysamom, My agent on our home purchase has another realtor “filling in”, but NOT on the sale of our home. The only option on our sale side would have been my agent’s brother, whom I have very little regard for. If we happen to get an offer and my agent is still out of the country, I’m really not sure what the heck they are going to do. I hope we are able to find out by getting an offer soon…</p>
<p>And, VeryHappy, good luck to you. Hang in there-- you’ll get it sold!</p>
<p>I agree - it is very irresponsible of your brokers to leave you without any real help! When the time comes to list and sell our house, I will take this into consideration and will look for a realtor team. Good luck with the sale and closing on the new home.</p>
<p>Yay! – Another showing tomorrow. :)</p>
<p>Now I have to clean up my house. :(</p>
<p>Yay…good luck.</p>
<p>Be thankful you don’t have to sell this house: About two blocks away from me is a gorgeous rehabbed Victorian – very, very nice finishes. But because the lot was tight and they expanded out the back, they decided to build an underground garage under the new addition in the back. The city required that they keep the steeply sloping driveway down to the garage permeable, and so they have grass growing in a chicken-wire like matrix. Furthermore, you have to make a complete 90 degree turn at the bottom of the driveway to get into the garage, otherwise you run smack into a cement retaining wall. We were all pretty dubious about how well this would work given snow and ice – and the fact that much of the time the residents had their big SUVs parked up on the street was some indication. The torrential rainstorms last week left the whole thing looking mangy and beat-up, and a veritable lake at the bottom of the driveway. (Plus, who wants to mow a steep driveway?) I guess it goes into the category of “it was a great house but…” listings.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed for jshain and veryhappy. </p>
<p>We just spent a couple of weeks at our place in Hilton Head and the market there, at least in our community, is very hot. Several sales and many new builds have started in recent weeks.</p>
<p>One of my sisters has a garage underneath though it isn’t around a corner but I do wonder how they deal with drainage problems as we’ve had floods the past few years. Snow and ice have to be problems too.</p>
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<p>Same here! We had the severe derecho come through on June 29th that knocked down a huge tree in front of the house (luckily not ON the house). It took almost two weeks for the village to remove the fallen part, as power was out everywhere for over a week. I notice the cable line is hanging low from a tree. We don’t have cable (for a couple of years now) so I think I’ll just remove it. Or maybe call the cable company and see what they say I should do.</p>
<p>This will be our first post-storm showing, it’s been over two weeks. (I think this is week 8 on the market).</p>
<p>In addition to the storm damage, our state is in a drought that’s pretty severe. The grass isn’t looking great, lots of brown, but that’s the case all over so I guess buyers will have to understand. At least he INSIDE of the house looks good. Or will, by tomorrow evening :)</p>
<p>Nice agent brought them through. :)</p>
<p>She called later to say they said thanks but no thanks. :(</p>
<p>Hopefully the next one makes you VeryHappy :)</p>
<p>Ohhhhhhhhh . . . I sure hope so, ohiobassmom.</p>
<p>I’m sick of this.</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten any “bites”? </p>
<p>So far the best we can do is a lease to purchase offer from our original buyer who wasn’t able to obtain their loan. They had a short sale 2 plus years ago and the banks now want these buyers to wait 3 years before they can get loans to purchase another home. Their realtor said that they would put $100,000 toward the (full-price) purchase price and would purchase the home in 1 year or lose this money.</p>
<p>I am not sure I want to get “in bed” with this buyer again. Their credit score is 740-ish but husband has only been at his job for a little over 4 years. I feel that a renter who will be purchasing our home under this arrangement would take good care of it but what if he can not get a loan to purchase our home a year from now? What if there’s an “out-clause” to recover the $100,000 (which I have to believe there is even though I don’t know what the exceptions would be)?</p>
<p>Have any of you done lease to own transactions and can you share with me the pros and cons?</p>
<p>jshain – I would seriously consider bringing a R.E. attorney on board before doing something like this. (And not just an attorney who does RE casually and infrequently.) I suspect that much depends on the drafting of the agreement and the laws in your state. </p>
<p>It does not sound like a bad deal to me if they really forfeit the $ if they don’t purchase AND if they agree to waive all contingencies (so they can’t come back and say “new roof or no deal”) AND you have some agreement on how maintenance costs will be handled AND your lawyer blesses the arrangement. But that’s a lot of ands.</p>
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<p>In this day and age, that’s a pretty good run.</p>
<p>^^its very difficult to sell houses in CT with no job growth for decades and Malloy who seems to want to make it an even more difficult environment.</p>
<p>A question for all real estate gurus: would you buy prime acreage, about 3 mostly flat, pasture like acres with some 100 yr old Douglas firs in one corner… and a cell tower well concealed in the middle of the “microforest”. The building site is planned for the corner diagonal to the cell tower. Of course, everything sells if the price is right, but would you consider this type of a lot for your dream house? A friend is looking into buying such property…</p>
<p>sure, why not?
That is, IF the tower is well concealed AND the company that put up and/ or operates the tower IS legally responsible for any and all maintenance to the tower AND any damages or injuries should any accident or malfunction happen to the tower or to any surrounding properties.
On second thought, maybe he should look elsewhere…</p>