Housing market
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It was fine (still annoying, but fine) when it was just mailers, etc. This is a little too weird.
Hey... This is Anne... Have you given my message any more thought? I'd love to buy your home!!
"Hey Anne. Please send pics. Thx. XOXO"
This is similar to what the airline industry figured out (finally) after 911. Capacity discipline. No more expansion just to expand, since that's how you go bankrupt. Better to be small and profitable and watch prices go up, than to spend yourself out of business.
Why I just went with FSBOHomes for listing. A flat $3600 covers everything. Marketing, inspection, assessor, an attorney to handle the paperwork, 7% commission would be over $11k on just the bare minimum I would like to get out of the house, and that would wipe out any profit on the house in the cost of upgrades for new AC/Furnace, water heater and flooring in the house
Same situation. Our house was more but now appraised100K over what we bought at. If we redo the kitchen I think we could get close to $130-140K over. And that is just dumb to pay that much for our house.
Yup, this was us. We were moving back to IA from out of state and found the house we wanted. Contacted a realtor and said "we want to buy that house." Did a couple visits before putting in our offer and that was it. Pretty much a cakewalk for her to get her $10k commission or whatever. She did give us lots of really nice closing gifts, and I'm sure that was because it was so easy for her to make bank on our transaction.
That being said, doing the transaction from another state made the realtor piece worth it.
Checkout Omni Brewing if you've never been. They have some good beers.
I have been, and am a big fan of theirs. Cool spot. We are a bit opposite side of MG though. We are over by Fish Lake
Ha, that's a misnomer. Ours have been steadily going up and we pay over $7K now.
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My mother lives in a mid-sized Iowa town (5k). She has been approached out of the blue multiple times while at the grocery store, post office, etc., by people asking her if she'd consider selling her house. It's ridiculous.
Who just rolls up on someone like that? Is that really what we've come to?
Who just rolls up on someone like that? Is that really what we've come to?
I had someone stop in front of my house last month while I was out working in the yard and ask if I was interested in selling my house. As it turns out, we are selling in the next few months so it may work out for this person.
I used to try this when I was single. I'd walk up to a pretty woman and say "how much?" Never had any success. Though, I'm not sure why?
We're open to any other recommendations though! We are like 7 minutes from Arbor Lakes area, so we have a good idea of what is available there, but any other places you guys (or anyone else) like we are all for recs.
