Selling a home "as is"

Treetopleaf
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:02:00 +0000

LOL, it’s clear I’ll have to move out of my house before attempting to sell - I’ll need to refinish the wood floors, paint, declutter, etc.

b&p, if I went into a house w/o screens, I would ask to see the house again with screens. I’m not kidding, I’d want to make sure I didn’t have the hassle of replacing screens, and good sized, functional windows are really important to me. Maybe just removing window treatments would work? My neighbor had windows replaced and said she wasn’t sure what she’d do about treatments, since so much light was now entering the house.

I’m the one with the blacktop replacement nearby. It’s a normal neighborhood, no HOA involved. The cement drive was no doubt in bad shape; many are around here since they are decades old. The people that bought the foreclosed house are obviously fixing it up for resale. It will be interesting to see how it goes. I have a feeling that the blacktop will prevent getting top dollar, and I’d wonder what other shortcuts they took. All for the few grand difference in driveway costs.