Marlow Harris of 360 Digest forwarded me this great example of the kind of story you won’t be seeing anymore in the coming years. We were to present our offer the next evening as one of 10 offers (!). I told my realtor that I’d rather pay too much for the house than lose it….
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Anecdotally Speaking
I was cleaning off my desk and I found a full color flier filled with exclamation points!!! It advertises a house down the street (pictured). I picked it up a few weeks ago while out on a walk with my wife and my dog. The house is around 2,300 square feet and sits on over…
Homeowner Friends Do It Right
This weekend my wife and I had the pleasure of visiting with some friends (I’ll call them R & L) that live down in the Olympia area. I was somewhat uneasy going into it, because they recently purchased a home, and R also occasionally reads this blog, so they know where I stand on the…
Follow-Up: Anecdotal Evidence, Pt. 4
Data has been posted online regarding the condo that sold last month. It seems that they got just what they were asking, a cool three hundred thousand, which you will recall is $19,000 more than the unit next door sold for just two months earlier. Dang. I’ll keep my eyes open as new properties are…
Follow-Up: Anecdotal Evidence, Pt. 3
NO DICE Here’s another update on the properties I’ve been following in my neighborhood. The house I was watching never did sell, it would seem. After stagnating on the market for over three months and lowering the asking price by 8.5%, there still were no takers for the “cozy” house. I would guess that the…