As of Friday, July 12, we are officially back to owning a single home. Our other house has finally sold.<\/p>\n

After working with one realtor for six months and having no bites, we switched things up and went with a different one based on a recommendation from our friend Patty. There are so many variables in real estate that it’s hard for me to say any one change made a difference, but some combination of things (the new realtor, the time of year, another price drop) finally worked. We changed realtors in the middle of May; seven weeks later, the house has officially changed hands.<\/p>\n

As is customary, prior to the sale the buyer had a home inspection performed, and imagine our surprise when the final report we received was 42 pages long. 42 pages! The gentleman who inspected the house missed his calling as a crime scene investigator! The (very) detailed report included pictures of every crack in every exterior brick, every place a screw was missing from a wall plate, and every spot surrounding a sink, bathtub, toilet, or counter top that could use some caulking. There were a few things in the report we were aware of, and many things that simply made me laugh — like the fact that our 14-year-old sidewalk was no longer perfectly level. My favorite was the part where he pointed at that in certain places on the second floor, the floor creaked. <\/p>\n

After receiving the report, the buyers only asked that we have the HVAC system professionally serviced, and have the house sprayed for ants and spiders. I can only assume they figured we weren’t going to spend thousands of dollars on repairs after dropping our asking price $50k, (and they would have been correct). Both tasks were performed last week prior to the final walk through. On Tuesday, Susan and I signed our half of the paperwork; on Friday, the buyers signed the other half. Done and done.<\/p>\n

Whenever I sell a car, I’m the guy that will go on (and on) pointing out every single flaw (usually to my own financial detriment). The last thing in the world I would want to do is hide any serious issues from a future owner. There was no massive looming bill or repair that prompted us to sell the house. We just wanted more land, and a little less house. The new owners, from what we’ve been told, were looking for a little more house. We hope they love it as much as we did.<\/p>\n

On to the next adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of Friday, July 12, we are officially back to owning a single home. Our other house has finally sold. After working with one realtor for six months and having no bites, we switched things up and went with a different one based on a recommendation from our friend Patty. There are so many variables in real estate that it’s hard for me to say any one change made a difference, but some combination of things (the new realtor, the time of year, another price drop) finally worked. We changed realtors in the middle of May; seven weeks later, the… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12074,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}