We listed our home last Tuesday night, six days ago, and the first viewing at 10am the next morning bought our home. We had a signed contract by lunch, so we sold our home in about 18 hours.
We listed our home for $289,900, it was a two story colonial with a finished basement we bought new in 1998 in the suburbs of Baltimore for $152,000. The buyer offered $275,000 and it was a cash deal with the funds guaranteed by the Wegman's Grocery chain. We have a new Wegmans opening in August one block from our house and the husband and wife are the manager and assistant manager. I was tempted to counter but the deal seemed too good to mess with.
We did a lot of work over the years, mainly in 2008 we spent $65,000 removing the wall between the dining room and kitchen and totally opening up the kitchen and adding white cabinets, granite, stainless steel and bamboo floors on the entire first floor and plantation shutters. We also enclosed the deck into a screened lanai with a vaulted ceiling and fan. The house had a very tropical or Floridian feel to it.
The buyers were just in from Rochester, NY for two days and said they had looked at nine homes before ours, and she had recently remodeled her kitchen in Rochester and didn't want to settle for anything less here.
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