Tire Kickers
Goddamit. So we are amidst selling the wonderful old house of ours, warts and all. A few months back, to get the business, one real estate agency said our house should sell for what seemed like a whole lot of money. Several others appeared to corroborate the price, with one lone exception. Choice of agents made, now things have turned south on us, amidst a "hot" market.
Hot! Fuggedaboudit. We have had lots of lookers, open houses, more open houses. And not a single offer. We have lowered the price once, by 50,000 dollars and again, by another 50,000. The real estate team have not lowered their bite one iota, and to be fair, we have yet to ask them to do this. We just want the place to sell and move on. I am pretty sure it is about price. We, the real estate companies, have set it too high. So here we sit upon our thumbs, broke or nearly so. But we can't say this too loudly, as we'll signal our vulnerability to a harsh, unkind world. One interested couple are hemming and hawing. They live nearby, the wife wants it, the husband doesn't and they cannote quite survey for the most recent asking price and they don't want to sell the house they now live in, and yadda, yadda, yadda, that maybe, mind you, there's yet to be an offer made, they can co something in the 700s, yadda, yadda, yadda. I don't want to hear about or know their problem. Once again, it feels as though we are being played as fools, that we are supposed to soften and feel for them and find some way to get, as they say in France, fucked. Merde, alors! I want an offer that makes sense. Not a lowball offer, not a "we are worried about" this or that. A truly old house on a beautiful lot, a quiet road, with a barn and two outbuildings, a well, a white picket fence. Believe me, there are problems with it and whomwever buys a 1751 two bay Cape style house should know this, or not even bother thinking about such a place. All I ask is that someone happen by immediately and make a reasonable offer, say for $795,000 and the place is theirs, and we will all be very fortunate. But no more tire kicking, no more we can't quite do what you are asking because we want our cake and to eat it, too, at your expense. It angers me. It is boringh. Tire kickers should all be rounded up, and shot at dawn
Hot! Fuggedaboudit. We have had lots of lookers, open houses, more open houses. And not a single offer. We have lowered the price once, by 50,000 dollars and again, by another 50,000. The real estate team have not lowered their bite one iota, and to be fair, we have yet to ask them to do this. We just want the place to sell and move on. I am pretty sure it is about price. We, the real estate companies, have set it too high. So here we sit upon our thumbs, broke or nearly so. But we can't say this too loudly, as we'll signal our vulnerability to a harsh, unkind world. One interested couple are hemming and hawing. They live nearby, the wife wants it, the husband doesn't and they cannote quite survey for the most recent asking price and they don't want to sell the house they now live in, and yadda, yadda, yadda, that maybe, mind you, there's yet to be an offer made, they can co something in the 700s, yadda, yadda, yadda. I don't want to hear about or know their problem. Once again, it feels as though we are being played as fools, that we are supposed to soften and feel for them and find some way to get, as they say in France, fucked. Merde, alors! I want an offer that makes sense. Not a lowball offer, not a "we are worried about" this or that. A truly old house on a beautiful lot, a quiet road, with a barn and two outbuildings, a well, a white picket fence. Believe me, there are problems with it and whomwever buys a 1751 two bay Cape style house should know this, or not even bother thinking about such a place. All I ask is that someone happen by immediately and make a reasonable offer, say for $795,000 and the place is theirs, and we will all be very fortunate. But no more tire kicking, no more we can't quite do what you are asking because we want our cake and to eat it, too, at your expense. It angers me. It is boringh. Tire kickers should all be rounded up, and shot at dawn
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