Rumor has it that our kitchen and bathroom cabinets are being installed this week. I can't wait to see how they screw this up. Maybe they'll be the wrong color, or they'll have done the design with the house plan flipped, or they'll arrive on-site all smashed into little tiny bits. Anticipation is keeping me waiting ! (Carly Simon, that makes no sense)
Tile guy says it was his fault the wrong tile got installed. He ordered the wrong tile. And he will fix it. Sweet.
We're pretty much ready for this thing to be done. We've started packing small stuff. We want to move.
But, it's been two weeks without a showing on our current house. Might be time to start dropping the price?
I also learned that a house on the next block has been for sale for 700+ days.
I hope we're not about to learn a lesson about impulsiveness v. prudent financial planning.
Your current house will sell if the price is right. The problem is how low can you go? But I wouldn’t lower it much yet in case people think you’re desperate. Any feedback from the estate agent (sorry, “realtor”?) from the previous viewings?
all the feedback has been positive (very positive, even). it’s just not the right house, for various reasons, for the people who have looked.
and, we can go ridiculously low and still make money on it. but we need to make a lot of money on it so that we can push the mortgage on the new house down to comfortable levels.
Asking price is a weird thing. When we were home-shopping, we (my wife especially) were not afraid to put in a lowball offer. The worst that can happen is you get told no, right?
So when it came time to price our own property (which hasn’t sold yet), we figured, ask for the moon, and let the buyers try to talk us down. But the real estate agents keep telling us that people don’t do that, they just look at the asking price.
What’s wrong with these people? This isn’t a Saturn dealership. Make me an offer.