Selling a home "as is"

bulletandpima
Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:26:24 +0000

My favorite when I entered a home one time and because the owner was getting divorced, but didn’t want it to sell must have rented out the biggest darn dog in the world and did not tell their listing agent. We always say dog in the house. I ring the doorbell, wait a few seconds to see if someone will answer and then unlock the door. As soon as I open the door this 150 lb bull mastiff with teeth blaring comes running to the door and slams it shut on me. I looked at my buyers and said, I think we’ll come back the owner is home.

My favorite real estate story…somebody’s home was being foreclosed on and they had decided if they couldn’t have no one could. They dumped concrete into an inground pool! Imagine my shock with the buyers as we looked at the pool and realized that it wouldn’t ever work. Me, I just quickly turned to them as my head was spinning and told them I will gift them a truckload of dirt to fill it in if they love the home!

I have seen it all concrete in toilets, water hoses run through the 2nd floor to flood the home, spray painted walls. It is very sad and the part that always touches your heart is inevitably there is a childs belonging left somewhere in the home and you realize that a family was torn apart.

You get over it real quick when you see that they not only took the subzero fridge that was built in, but the 6 burner stove and the dishwasher. You immediately stand there puzzled because you know that they did not move into another McMansion and that subzeros don’t fit in a typical home. NO lie I once showed a home that they not only took all of that, but everything including the handrails, toilets, sinks, carpets, light switches. I am pretty sure they even considered if they could get the dry wall out. The funny part of that story, they took all of the appliances but left the manuals still in the kitchen drawers.

I was showing a short sale once and the family was in the home, we opened the door to the garage and sitting there in the garage was a 20 ft speed boat. Buyers jokingly asked if it came with the house, the owner, said no, that’s my baby, I would rather die than part with it. YEP, seeing as you are in a short sale I guess you are serious. He did show us how he had a special HVAC put in to keep her always at the correct temp yr round :eek:

Realtors are a bunch of fun to hang with because we always do I can beat that one…ONE TIME…you may think the stories you heard from a friend of a friend is exaggerated, but realistically it has happened somewhere.