{"id":18596,"date":"2012-01-19T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=18596"},"modified":"2012-01-18T21:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:18:50","slug":"guess-the-price-round-3-update-13-open-houses-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/guess-the-price-round-3-update-13-open-houses-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Price Round 3 Update: 13 Open Houses Later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over two months since we kicked off <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/guess-the-price-round-3-a-familiar-ballard-home\/\" title=\"Guess the Price Round 3: A Familiar Ballard Home\">Round 3 of our Guess the Price contest<\/a>, so let&#8217;s have a little checkup.<\/p>\n<p>In the chart below I have plotted each of the thirty-two guesses by readers in this contest as a blue circle.  The orange squares show where the home&#8217;s asking price has been so far, and the green diamond shows the current asking price as of this post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px auto; width: 600px; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Guess-the-Price_7310-19th-Ave-NW_prelim.png\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"Price Guesses: 7310 19th Ave NW\" alt=\"Price Guesses: 7310 19th Ave NW\" width=\"600\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only one of the guesses in this contest was higher than the current asking price.  Of course, since the home has been sitting for seventy-one days since the last price drop, I&#8217;m starting to get the feeling that there isn&#8217;t going to be a buyer at this price.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: I&#8217;ve been getting email alerts every time the listing agent schedules an open house.  So far I have counted <em>thirteen<\/em> open houses in the twelve weeks since this listing came on the market.  Nearly every single weekend they&#8217;re welcoming in the public, sometimes on both Saturday and Sunday.  There was even an open house on New Year&#8217;s Day (but not Christmas weekend).<\/p>\n<p>Is the seller hoping that the &#8220;spring buying season&#8221; will whisk in a buyer who somehow hasn&#8217;t seen the home yet?  Whatever the case, this time around the home is having quite a different experience than it did last time on the market, when it went pending <em>three days<\/em> after being listed and sold for $42,250 over the asking price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over two months since we kicked off Round 3 of our Guess the Price contest, so let&#8217;s have a little checkup. In the chart below I have plotted each of the thirty-two guesses by readers in this contest as a blue circle. 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