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post #101 of 106
3/9/10 at 11:43pm
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We found another house we are very interested and made a solid offer of 125K (they were asking 130K). And we're already getting the run around again. Seller's agent is calling our loan officer (which he shouldn't be doing) but won't return our agent's call. It sure doesn't feel like a buyers market to me.
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post #102 of 106
3/10/10 at 12:52am
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We found another house we are very interested and made a solid offer of 125K (they were asking 130K). And we're already getting the run around again. Seller's agent is calling our loan officer (which he shouldn't be doing) but won't return our agent's call. It sure doesn't feel like a buyers market to me.
Those are all signs of a buyer's market. People are trying to get out of their houses for as much as they can in order to protect their nest egg and they'll try to screw anyone and anybody to get that money.
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post #103 of 106
3/10/10 at 12:55am
good luck on this one, Alex.

by the way, how did the LAST house that you put an offer on resolve itself?
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post #104 of 106
3/10/10 at 10:54am
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good luck on this one, Alex.

by the way, how did the LAST house that you put an offer on resolve itself?
We both signed the mutual release and they took the house off the market. The daughter who was running things for her elderly parents who owned the place was admitted to a mental institute. NO JOKE.
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post #105 of 106
3/10/10 at 11:48am
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We both signed the mutual release and they took the house off the market. The daughter who was running things for her elderly parents who owned the place was admitted to a mental institute. NO JOKE.
THAT...is seriously awesome. You'll be able to mine humor from this scenario for the rest of your lives. Fifty years from now, you'll be able to entertain your grandchildren with the story of how you drove a house seller to the insane asylum.
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post #106 of 106
3/10/10 at 5:09pm
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THAT...is seriously awesome. You'll be able to mine humor from this scenario for the rest of your lives. Fifty years from now, you'll be able to entertain your grandchildren with the story of how you drove a house seller to the insane asylum.
We still tell the story of the crazy lady who bought our first house. She put down fifteen percent with no riders. After we signed the deal she started going all wonky demanding that we have the house perfectly clean any time she sent over workmen or that we weren't allowed to be in the house when she brought her son to look at it (he was five). All of which we said no to.

Once before possession date she broke in to the house to measure for (get this) custom made carpets. Not custom cut but custom made. We called the cops on her.

She sent a letter to our lawyer demanding that we be forcibly evicted from our house before possession date because she wanted some time in the house alone. When this request was denied she said that we weren't complying with her demands outlined in the purchase agreement so she was backing out of the deal. Our lawyer phoned her "lawyer", in reality a friend of hers who was a legal secretary, and said that was fine but that she now forfeited the down payment ($30,000) because she had made the deal with no provisions.

She then wrote a letter to a bunch of people (including our MLA and MP) saying that we (including our MP and MLA) were trying to bilk her out of her hard earned money (in reality it was a lump sum payment from her ex-husband to keep her the hell away from him).

In the end, she forfeited her money to us, her kid to child services and was quite literally never heard from again. Crazy is fun!
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