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Re: New Photos of House for sale are up. 

By: Decomposed in POPE IV | Recommend this post (3)
Sat, 23 Sep 17 6:20 PM | 100 view(s)
Boardmark this board | POPES NEW and Improved Real Board 		Msg. 34900 of 47202
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re: "Thank God!"

Yep. Real Estate can be a huge hassle. I've been lucky - the rental I had in California sold without a hitch. And my home in California sold pretty easily too - but I had already spent $30,000 fixing it up - new windows, two new bathrooms, new stucco exterior, new paint (inside and out), and I put on a new patio roof since the old one was leaking.

After I moved to Virginia and the house had an offer, I was told that the dishwasher didn't work. I thought that was odd since I'd used it for ten years and it had worked fine right up until the day I left. But I paid about $300 for a new one and that was that. Sold. That was in December 2005, about 5 percent off the market top. A few years later, the house was worth a little more than a third of what I'd sold it for. It still hasn't recovered. Like I said... I was lucky.

When I was a kid and my parents were buying their home, the seller reneged on the deal TWICE. We were under pressure to buy a place quickly since we'd had a fight with our landlord. Literally, a fist fight! Can you believe that? I couldn't and I was there. Say what you want about my dad, but NOBODY got away with question his integrity. The landlord said that we had been to a lawyer and were planning to sue him. This was denied by my father. The landlord called him a liar. My father denied it a second time and warned him not to call him a liar. It happened again. *WHACK* My dad slapped him hard across the face and broke his eardrum. Then it turned into a humorous sixty seconds with my father assuming a boxing stance, the landlord kicking at him to try to to keep him away and my teenage brother yelling "Come on, Fred! Be a man. Stop fighting like a girl!"

This transpired as a direct result of an ammunition train that blew up in Roseville, CA, in 1973. It blew out windows and caused other damage to houses in a three mile radius.

Our house had shattered windows but was otherwise okay. The landlord, however, decided to milk the insurance company for all that he could. He brought estimators into our home and walked them around pointing out all sorts of things that had NOTHING to do with the explosions.

My parents found out about it and were furious. See, I was the only one home at the time and I was really young. He'd entered without ever telling them or getting their permission.

They were also angry that weeks had passed and, because he was waiting on the insurance estimators, he hadn't replaced the windows.

Which led to the lawyer accusations, the fist fight, the hurried hunt for a new house and our eventual move to a much nicer place. LOL... good times.

And THAT, my friend, is known as going off on a tangent!
 




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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months

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Re: New Photos of House for sale are up.
By: micro in POPE IV
Sat, 23 Sep 17 5:35 PM 		Msg. 34899 of 47202

I see the confusion now De!
Thanks for clarification....

Ah yes, the sale.

What happened was the couple was older and wanted to move there to be closer to children. They made an offer, I countered it and we agreed upon a price. Accepted!

Good faith money was deposited. A home inspection was supposedly done. We got a mysterious accusation that the drywall in basement had 100 percent moisture reading.

They also said it had mold and was waiting to be radon tested.

The drywall moisture comment was totally untrue and false. I had readings taken and they were all normal or below normal....

As for the mold, it was true. White mold which naked eye usually cannot see with aid of white light.. On floor joists.

NO big deal really.

Because the man was carrying on like a child I told the realtor to let them out of the contract and to give them back their good faith money....

I hored professional mold mitigation company to fix problem in basement and a RADON mitigation company to put a system in that reduced the radon gas level to below minimum limits....

That buyer could have had all this done by me for no cost to him. I paid about 3 grand for all of it.

Took 5 days total.

I kept house off market because I wanted to go ahead and replace the roof with a new one.

After doing so, I realized the shutters and trim needed to be repainted to a gray color that ties the roof, bricks, and trim together. I also hand cleaned the gutters and gutter guards.

Next we professionally painted the stone fireplace. This process took over a week for painting and about three weeks after the roof was replaced.

So here we are late in September now with a brand new house completely for sale with absolutely ZERO anything wrong with it.......

I can completely understand why you stated that you thought I had sold it already....

Hopefully now we will find someone who really wants a nice house with NO problems to repair or fix....

They can paint walls whatever color the want but there is NO mold, radon, roofing, exterior trim, problems left to deal with.....

Thank God!

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