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Once a person comes here & announces that they signed a listing agreement with no intent or desire to sell, I don't assume any other action to be precluded by their sanity.
You already addressed that issue a long time ago...why do you have to bring it up again when I explained in painstaking detail why I signed.
I hope it was not even half a joke and ALL a joke <gg>!
Now please tell me why I would ever want to put up photos of my house on the Net, a house I am not even selling? Do you think I am crazy? Are you the type of person who would put up photos of your home on the Net just to make a point? I hope not!
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You seem desperate to convince strangers on the Internet that it was really worth more than your agent said it was, so I don't think it's that big of a jump to post some pictures (obviously without a specific address) and let us be the judge. We've listened to your feelings and opinion on it for over a hundred posts, now I want some evidence! After all, there's three sides to every story.
I used to deal in golf clubs. People would say well so and so told me it was worth $100.00. My reply was great, Have so and so buy it from you for $100.00. I will buy it for such and such.
Until someone actually buys something, pricing can be very, very subjective.
Martha I came across your thread and all I have to say is Congrats! You discovered what I learned 3-4 yrs earlier........Realtors are in a profession to make money. Looking out for your interests is not a priority. I understand its a general statement but this is the conclusion I came to after dealing with 6 different buyer's agents. I ended up buying a house in 2011 for $250,000 less than its asking price in 2009. Anyone with a half a brain could see the economy was tanking, recession was heating up, buyers were drying up, etc. If you listened to the news blindly for the past 4 yrs, they have been spinning positive news only. But the realtors I dealt with were the pushiest, self interested POS I ever came across. The entire profession should be revamped.
I quoted your 3 posts which were loaded with inconsistencies, you have now added more posts adding to the inconsistencies.
Until you can show how the 3 posts I quoted were not loaded with inconsistencies there is nothing else to say in regards to them.
Update on the house next door: Just as I predicted, they are doing major work on it now even though it was sold for $90K more than our supposed value of $650 and our house being in better condition.
The bathrooms (except for a new basement bathroom) of the house next door are old and needed remodeling and as I write I can hear them tearing down a wall of the bathroom upstairs to modernize it and improve it. They just finished doing over a total mess of a long driveway, putting in new concret, they dug up the thin concrete of the 2 car garage and are going to put in new concrete there, and, something I didn't want to mention because I knew I would sound biased and get hell, but the previous owner was not only negligent of her house but also a notorious pack rat and she sold the house for $740K "as is" and now they have just removed, get this, a 1940's stove and an upright piano from the garage, and this after they removed a ton of bags of garbage and broken furniture.
I have, if anything, been charitable about the house next door and so if you say I am inconsistent it was that I was trying not to sound as if I was exaggerating the bad condition of that house and the way in which it was left at sale.
I agree that pricing is tricky, and that is why sellers don't have to sign with a realtor if they don't agree with the realtor's value (similarly most realtors I know won't list a house if an owner lacks complete objectivity on the value of their home).
As for putting photos on the net, that's actually how most houses sell - it's not crazy or a huge privacy issue, and is certainly the way buyers do a preliminary assessment of value.
For the life of me I can't imagine why you've put so much energy into this - just sell your house for the price that you've gone on about it being worth and you'll prove everyone wrong. Until then...
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