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  • baboon

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    Wow what low balling POS in Houston trying to buy houses! My house was pending. Buyer comes out & must have gotten mad walking in dog shit in my back yard while measuring the lot & taking picture of trees. Next thing they want is for two neighbors to cut oak trees that hangs over my yard. Even more hair brain they think I should pay for it.

    The wife & I were all excited about going out looking for our home before the grave. No sense in looking once the buyer terminated the contract. So today instead of looking for house the buyers agent thing if all else fails they can get me to drop the price more.

    I so badly want to contact the buyers agent to tell him & his client to eat big bag of dicks!
     

    Mowingmaniac 24/7

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    Learn how to say: NO!

    A buddy of mine who was a big time developer and one time realtor advised me to say when our potential (years ago) buyer started in on unreasonable demands before buying our house.

    He accepted NO and bought the house.
     

    G O B

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    Offer a selling bonus to the Agent who makes the sale. You will be swamped with buyers.
     

    PeoplePhobic

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    Wow what low balling POS in Houston trying to buy houses! My house was pending. Buyer comes out & must have gotten mad walking in dog shit in my back yard while measuring the lot & taking picture of trees. Next thing they want is for two neighbors to cut oak trees that hangs over my yard. Even more hair brain they think I should pay for it.

    The wife & I were all excited about going out looking for our home before the grave. No sense in looking once the buyer terminated the contract. So today instead of looking for house the buyers agent thing if all else fails they can get me to drop the price more.

    I so badly want to contact the buyers agent to tell him & his client to eat big bag of dicks!

    Sounds like they were just looking for a reason to back out of it. It's not like you can legally chop another person's tree down. It's a pretty unreasonable demand. I suppose you could probably legally trim back some limbs and branches that hang over your land but that could still kill the trees and land you in some trouble. Asking two neighbors to trim their trees would put you at their mercy. You cannot control what happens on someone else's property. Who doesn't want shade in TX anyway...?

    I would tell them no. If they don't commit to buying it not having any shade could turn away other potential buyers. If they want that done they can do it themselves when they own the place.

    I wouldn't tell anyone to eat a dick after what happened in Oklahoma because they just might do it...
     
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    Brains

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    It depends on the house, the buyer, etc. Ours got multiple full price+ offers first day. When original contract temporarily fell through, it took ten minutes back on the market to have people begging to see the place, and a near immediate offer trying to call my bluff @ 10k under which wasn't even put on paper. Original contract buyer ran out of time and executed the option, only to come right back in on a new contract (w/o option period) and closed. Knowing we got that offer within an hour probably motivated her. All that to say, buyer still tried to get a massive list of things in the deal, got a no on most, and closed on schedule.

    There's not much inventory on the market, and it's getting tighter coming into the winter. It's frustrating, but a picky buyer in this market will only cause headaches you don't want. There's more buyers out there.
     

    GoPappy

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    In this market, if a house has been on the market for 9 months without selling, then it‘s either priced too high or there are other problems with the house or its location. E.g., foundation problems, deferred maintenance, bad school district, bad neighbors, high crime area or other issues.

    Don‘t let your money get mad. It’s not personal. You are trying to get the most you can, and the buyer is trying to pay as little as possible.
     

    skfullgun

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    Location. Location. Location.
    My house in LaPorte sold to the first "looker" on the first day for full price. We closed a week ahead of schedule. On the day of the closing, the buyer made a stink about me taking the BBQ pit (big, smoker type on wheels) with me. He said he thought it came with the house and was a "selling point". He wanted me to bring it back.
    I said, "no" and sent a pic of it to my realtor showing it was, in fact, on wheels.
    Closing went forward without further discussions.
    I flamed a few celebratory ribeyes on the pit later that evening, and washed them down with a nice Chianti.
     

    baboon

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    Out here by the lake!
    The house is a tear down IMHO and listed as is. My realtor said I was high on the price, but like I told her I'm listing just like the house next to me did. It sold in 6 months for $36K less then listed. I have dropped my price $20K after 6 months. I realize I missed out when the getting was good. I want to walk away with $250K in my account, to move.

    The house is attracting mostly flippers. This buyer was actually going to build. There is a vacant corner lot in the neighborhood listed @ $471K, and has been there for years. Another house kitty corner from mine listed as a tear down owned by a builder & listed @ $471K. In August of 2014 my dump was worth $765K. Between lots of newer townhouses & apartment then Harvey the prices crashed hard. Nothing on this street or neighborhood flooded.

    The way I see it its mostly transplants devilcraps from Commiepornia looking in my area. Screw them! I lived here 30 year whats another couple years.
     

    popsgarland

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    22 in the kneecap. Make sure it hurts for years to come.
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    Texasjack

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    Yeah, the Freakonomics discussion will show you a whole side of the real estate business you don't normally see. Agents have an incentive to close, not to get you the best money.

    Back in the 90's, I took a job in NY and there you need a lawyer to buy a house. (It's unbelievable how much paperwork is involved.) Several people recommended a particular attorney and so I hired him. First thing he did was put together a list of demands for the seller. I was shocked, but he pointed out that it's a negotiation and so you want to start out in a position where you can give up things to reach an agreement. So I hit the sellers with the list and they (predictably) hit the ceiling. I pointed out that it was a negotiation and not a firm demand and so we went through the list. They ended up giving me the refrigerator, the riding lawn mower, all the rugs and window treatments, and some misc. stuff. The sellers were happy that I "gave up" on the items they refused to include. It was a valuable lesson.

    When I sold that house and happily moved back home to Texas, I retained the same attorney. Once we had a real buyer, the attorney called and dumped me, as he was working for the buyers and they paid him better (I forget why, corporate relocation thing maybe). One of the guys I worked with had a wife that was a young attorney. I called her for advice and when she heard the name of my former attorney, she reacted with "That SOB!" Oh, you know him? Turns out he was one of her professors in college and she hated his guts. Brilliant! You're hired and you have free rein to fight him. She did just that and it was nice to see his tactics thrown back in his face. I think the only thing I "gave" the buyer from his request list was the lawnmower. He was thrilled and I didn't want the thing anyway.

    The first attorney did give me two other good pieces of advice: 1) Your house is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. You can look up values and such, but at the end of the day it's all up to the buyer. Leave yourself some room for negotiation. 2) Don't get divorced. It's going to be far more expensive than you think. (I don't regret getting a divorce from that witch I was married to, but he was right about the cost.)
     
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