Any good stories about selling your house?
 

So often I read comments like, "We've moved X times since we bought into TV."
I had to wonder, does any one have any remarkable stories about all those moves? Things you didn't expect? Or always smooth as silk? (TIA.)

We had a couple back out on a deal. No problem give me the good faith deposit. Oh no not so easy.

Relator was useless, title office who held the deposit were rude. Everyone wished me luck.

So I sued the title office and buyers in small claims. It took seven months before I prevailed.

Edit to add this was a Villages home.

Just sold our Michigan home in July. 45 showings in 4 days with 15 offers over asking price. That was great! We took the highest offer and then the buyers inspection. Everything went great until the last thing they checked was the sewer line and found a hole in the clay pipe about 8 feet outside the house. I was getting quotes to replace or install a liner that were running $20,000+. It was the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat in two days! I ended up finding a plumber that just lined the bad spot as the rest was good so it only cost $6,500 and I was happy with that.

Wow, clay pipe for sewer, now that is old.

Village of Springdale ... sold in 5 days John Starr Remax .. seamless transaction

Once had an estate agent come to give a valuation for our house to go on market.
He asked what we were hoping to make on the house.
We quoted a number, and he bought the house on the spot.
Far as I know, the family still live there.
Quickest sale we ever had.

When we sold our villa late last year, the Villages Realtor put up an open house sign in front of our property. Unfortunately she banged the sign right through our sprinkler line. Around the same time our lawn mower guy ran over a sprinkler head that didn’t retract. We were part-time Villagers and now I don’t have to worry about our 61 sprinkler heads at the Villages since we moved back up north.

I should add that our Villages realtor gave us a $100 gift certificate at Lowe’s as a result.

The house is 70 years old this year. Hard to believe that we were in that house for 36 years but everything was redone at least once. The kitchen was redone three times and the main bathroom twice. I did all of it myself and I patted myself on my back when the inspector said everything was rock solid.

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Always get a kick out of the language variations either side of the pond. I now know a little more about estate agent vs letting agent vs real estate agent and even a bit about a Licensed Conveyancer. :-)

My up north house was built in 1971 and had terra cotta (clay) sewer pipes.

From the net:
"Clay pipes were commonly used between 1900 and 1980. They provided an economical way for builders and sewer workers to create main sewer lines for all building types and locations."

Our septic systems have clay pipe up north

I’ll be selling my house myself in Briarwood this Fall when I get back. Why are people telling me I will get less if I sell myself. I am doing all the work an agent would do, photographs, marketing, showings, etc. why is there the impression I can’t ask the same amount a realtor would for the asking price?

You can ask. Most buyers will offer less deducting for the commission. Negotiations will determine selling price. Comps are easy in TV since the houses are similar, upgrade values known. It’s a buyers market now, unless your home is on a great lot or offers some other desirable features it may take a while.

If you do FSBO use a RE attorney for the contract, not a title company or Internet blank that isn’t reviewed by an attorney. It’s critical to have any contract reviewed. You’ll need to decide if you’ll offer an agent who brings a buyer a commission and how much.

My guess it's the profit motive