Shawn
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- Aug 14, 2007
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So our house is on the market (been on since mid December) - we ended up hiring a realtor. We had it built for $1,500,000 about 2 years ago and we're selling for 1,400,000. Even at 1.5 its under what all others are priced at. 1.4 is a steal imo. So we're losing money, but we just wanna move on.
We've had lots of showings and great feedback, but no offers (I know its only been 2 months) . Anyway, our realtor has a friend that is a retired ex ceo of some company and he and his wife had no intention of moving (hes probably not even a real buyer, but who knows). She called them and said hey got this great house, you need to see it, hoping they'd fall in love with it and buy it.
They have now seen it 4 times sometimes for 2+hours at a time. But at the end of each showing they tell the realtor ok, we'll let you know by Wednesday etc. Then Wednesday rolls around and they never call or return the realtors calls. So we figured, screw it, let's offer them a reverse offer of $1,250,000 ($300k+ loss for us after realtor fees!) and give em 48 hours to accept.
They called back (after about 40 hours) and said ok, we'll take a look at it tomorrow again. WTF!! Now they wanna come back tomorrow (after the 48hrs) and "see if they like it enough". They have stressed my wife and I out sooo much. I wanna sell, but not that badly lol.
I do understand that people want to see the house before they make a big purchase. But they've already seen it 4 times in the past 3 weeks. Our primary concerns with it though, is that it seems the reverse offer kinda backfired on us now because we're granting them extra time to let us know - so after tomorrow it sounds like we're going to be right back to where we started with them saying ok we'll let you know and then they never do. And now they probably think they can buy it for 1.1.
I feel like we should 'fire these buyers' and say nevermind. Maybe then they'll buy it What do you think?
We've had lots of showings and great feedback, but no offers (I know its only been 2 months) . Anyway, our realtor has a friend that is a retired ex ceo of some company and he and his wife had no intention of moving (hes probably not even a real buyer, but who knows). She called them and said hey got this great house, you need to see it, hoping they'd fall in love with it and buy it.
They have now seen it 4 times sometimes for 2+hours at a time. But at the end of each showing they tell the realtor ok, we'll let you know by Wednesday etc. Then Wednesday rolls around and they never call or return the realtors calls. So we figured, screw it, let's offer them a reverse offer of $1,250,000 ($300k+ loss for us after realtor fees!) and give em 48 hours to accept.
They called back (after about 40 hours) and said ok, we'll take a look at it tomorrow again. WTF!! Now they wanna come back tomorrow (after the 48hrs) and "see if they like it enough". They have stressed my wife and I out sooo much. I wanna sell, but not that badly lol.
I do understand that people want to see the house before they make a big purchase. But they've already seen it 4 times in the past 3 weeks. Our primary concerns with it though, is that it seems the reverse offer kinda backfired on us now because we're granting them extra time to let us know - so after tomorrow it sounds like we're going to be right back to where we started with them saying ok we'll let you know and then they never do. And now they probably think they can buy it for 1.1.
I feel like we should 'fire these buyers' and say nevermind. Maybe then they'll buy it What do you think?
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