[texasfal]

When we sold our house the last couple that looked at the house spoke Spanish. They did not know that I also speak Spanish and the wife kept criticizing the house and calling us names. The husband loved the house. Finally I had had enough and answered a question in Spanish. The wife turned beet red and the husband apologized. They made an offer that day and we closed 4 days later. Best move we ever made.

[sschuler1]

Nonie, We had many people come out and look and then comment that they couldn't put a pole barn on the property. Well, if they had read the listing they would have seen that our property is heavily wooded! Or the comments that the house is too small. Duh, the square footage is on the listing! I think those are just comments to let the realtor know they aren't interested, but don't want to just admit that they don't like the house.

[kittylecroix]

Luckily yesterday we found out our house is "sold". We are fortunate because we just listed it May 1st. Before that we showed it on our own twice. The first couple raved about it and said they were going to the bank the next day to see what they could do. Never heard another word from them. The next guy made almost no comments during the tour, and never heard from him. The realtors we interviewed were up to a 100K apart in what we should ask. They all said you have to really go through hoops to justify a price to a bank these days, and indicated that THEY would have to do that if someone came in with an offer. Anyway, we lucked out because the people buying our house don't need much financing so there was no question regarding the appraisal. One Realtor who told us to price it 100K less than the one we went with had come very highly recommended to us. When we heard her recommendation, we said if that was the case, we wouldn't sell it. The Realtor we picked worked very hard showing it, having open houses, etc. Funny comments she relayed to us were "I can't see the sunset from this side of the lake" and one couple who spent over an hour and were very interested decided it wasn't a big enough eating area for their family of 5 children and grandchildren. We have had probably 30 people at a time here, probably more. Anyway, don't take comments too seriously. Some people are negative hoping to make you lose confidence in your asking price. " All it takes is one" and your house will sell.
One more comment. We loved our house here, but love TV also. We are really "Voting with our feet" to get the hell out of NY State. Those of you from here (Nonie, Linda, Handieman)How about our dysfunctional State Legislature's latest fiasco?!

[another Linda]

Originally Posted by kittylecroix

... Those of you from here (Nonie, Linda, Handieman)How about our dysfunctional State Legislature's latest fiasco?!

Ah, yes. totally unreal!

[SteveFromNY]

We were selling a 3 story house with a basement. It was VERY obvious from the outside it was a 3 story house.

After looking at it they decided against it as it had too many stairs! Were they expecting an elevator?

[interested]

We have a beautiful creek running through our property that our kids loved growing up with the frogs and polly wogs. I thought it was a great asset. Over half the buyers cited the creek as a negative and scary if they had kids ( about one inch deep). We lucked out and a couple with no children bought our very large 5 bedroom house (why? - I don't care!) and last week we bought in the village of Amelia. Hang in there - it just takes the right one but as has been said, you have to give in on the price.