wishbone
08-19-2005, 11:25 PM
In the last week, we have sold our house twice and made 2 offers to purchase and had both rejected.
Tuesday 8/9 - We get the "For Sale" sign put in the yard and start watching people drive by slowly and point at our house. We have 30+ realtors visit the house as part of a weekly tour between 10am and 1pm. Our realtor makes his "famous potato salad". I think half the people were there as part of a weekly travelling lunch date.
Wednesday - 5 different realtors with clients tour our home. We are ready to leave on an hour notice in case someone else wants to stop by.
Thursday - We have another 2 appointments to show the house. We make plans with friends and hang out until 9pm. When we get home aroung 9:15 there is a realtor and his client in the driveway. He claims they are prepared to make a full price offer that night if we let them look around. I say ok, let them in and wait 30 minutes while they look around and talk about it. I get tired of watching them look around and go inside, they are a very nice young family and tell me they love the house.
Friday - The young family has made a full price offer and we make arrangements to meet with our realtor to accept the offer. We look at a house we really like and decide to make an offer as soon as we accept our own offer.
Saturday - We accept the offer and feel relieved. We start to plan things to do with the extra money and generally feel good.
Monday - While I am at work, my wife tells me that we need to get the house ready to show again. I say "Why, we already sold it?". She explains that she thinks the buyers have backed out. I call our realtor to confirm (there was some confusion because my wife works graveyard and was asleep when the realtor called) and the realtor says that they are still discussing it and will decide by 5pm. They end up backing out of the purchase, the house we had looked at has an offer accepted at 6pm.
Tuesday - We relist the house and have 4 more prospective buyers tour it.
Wednesday - We accept an offer from one of the people that toured the day before. We also decide to look at 2 more places on Thursday.
Thursday - We really like the 2nd place we look at. We go home and make an offer. The offer is contingent on our home sale but our realtor says that is very common and we have a strong offer.
Friday - The owners of the home we have made an offer on go AWOL, their realtor can not find them. He has already told them about the offer but they are concerned about the contingency (the sale of our home). They reject our offer with no counter, claiming that it is "too complicated".
I am so frustrated, everytime we see an available house we like, events conspire against us to prevent us from getting it. I can't count the number of listings we have seen now or the number of hours we have put into the effort of selling/buying.
I am slowly going crazy...
Tuesday 8/9 - We get the "For Sale" sign put in the yard and start watching people drive by slowly and point at our house. We have 30+ realtors visit the house as part of a weekly tour between 10am and 1pm. Our realtor makes his "famous potato salad". I think half the people were there as part of a weekly travelling lunch date.
Wednesday - 5 different realtors with clients tour our home. We are ready to leave on an hour notice in case someone else wants to stop by.
Thursday - We have another 2 appointments to show the house. We make plans with friends and hang out until 9pm. When we get home aroung 9:15 there is a realtor and his client in the driveway. He claims they are prepared to make a full price offer that night if we let them look around. I say ok, let them in and wait 30 minutes while they look around and talk about it. I get tired of watching them look around and go inside, they are a very nice young family and tell me they love the house.
Friday - The young family has made a full price offer and we make arrangements to meet with our realtor to accept the offer. We look at a house we really like and decide to make an offer as soon as we accept our own offer.
Saturday - We accept the offer and feel relieved. We start to plan things to do with the extra money and generally feel good.
Monday - While I am at work, my wife tells me that we need to get the house ready to show again. I say "Why, we already sold it?". She explains that she thinks the buyers have backed out. I call our realtor to confirm (there was some confusion because my wife works graveyard and was asleep when the realtor called) and the realtor says that they are still discussing it and will decide by 5pm. They end up backing out of the purchase, the house we had looked at has an offer accepted at 6pm.
Tuesday - We relist the house and have 4 more prospective buyers tour it.
Wednesday - We accept an offer from one of the people that toured the day before. We also decide to look at 2 more places on Thursday.
Thursday - We really like the 2nd place we look at. We go home and make an offer. The offer is contingent on our home sale but our realtor says that is very common and we have a strong offer.
Friday - The owners of the home we have made an offer on go AWOL, their realtor can not find them. He has already told them about the offer but they are concerned about the contingency (the sale of our home). They reject our offer with no counter, claiming that it is "too complicated".
I am so frustrated, everytime we see an available house we like, events conspire against us to prevent us from getting it. I can't count the number of listings we have seen now or the number of hours we have put into the effort of selling/buying.
I am slowly going crazy...