Were your buyers/sellers "just like you"? (state, kitchen, bedroom)

[OCNYISHOME]

While the global economy creates a significantly different level of competition for everyone, here in NY the growth of government, taxes, and over regulation continues to result in decreases in emplyment opportunities [we usually experience more folks leaving then settling here each year ... the same w/ employers] If the election ends as many pundents predict our situation will just be exasperated....most likely in excess of 65% of every dollar to governments. Here public employees outnumber private emplyees. Many are unable to stay when they retire due to high fixed costs so NC, SC, Fla. get their retirement [ our tax dollars]. With my property and school taxes at $9000 and increasing yearly, I will soon reluctantly join the exodus. China and Walmart have nothing to do w/ that crushing of opportunity.............redistribution of income does...........Why should an employer locate where they must pay higher taxes, their employees pay more for homes and taxes..........to advocate otherwise is to ignore basic business fundamentals......they are business in business to make a profit...not social service agencies

[dogmom]

uh..ok guess that was my answer? I get that it's less expensive to live but there must be other advantages?

[OCNYISHOME]

Great countryside, majestic mountains, impressive lakes and rivers in NC and N. Georgia, great ocean beaches all along the S.E. coastline.............just have to like the heat....and reptiles

[dogmom]

thanks for letting me know..reptiles, huh..like gators? lizards? sounds lovely, not for me, probably way too humid too...

[lorriem]

Originally Posted by dogmom

Are the financial advantages of the Carolinas so good that folks are moving there? I hear a lot of people talking about North Carolina and aside from being a beautiful state, it surprises me that west coast folks are talking it up so much. What are the advantages? Good taxes? Easy to get SS disability? Just curious

We just moved to NC and what drew us there is the beauty of the state. After living in flat fl for 3 years and coming from CA we missed the mountains. We now live near the Blue Ridge Mts.
Most people who move from the west coast can find a home at a great price and still have the beauty of the mountains.

[lorriem]

Originally Posted by OCNYISHOME

Great countryside, majestic mountains, impressive lakes and rivers in NC and N. Georgia, great ocean beaches all along the S.E. coastline.............just have to like the heat....and reptiles

You say reptiles. Go to Fl and you have to step over them or your dogs develops a taste for them and they are brought in the house half dead.I have yet to see them in NC but I am sure I will but not in the numbers that I saw them in FL.

[twinmma]

Yes...a lot like us.
Our first condo was when we were dating and we sold to another couple who were dating...they were around the same age as us when we bought the place.
The second home we sold...they could have BEEN us, lol! The same age, newly married, husbands in the same profession and same job title, just different company. They were relocating to the area (as we had when we bought the home) The wife actually was interested in seeing our home b/c the bedroom we had just painted happened to be the exact color of the comforter she just bought-she actually brought it with her at her showing and when they came to meet me to show their parents before settlement. Very much alike.
This home that we just bought-a lot like us. A couple with two young children and a dog...we are a couple with two young children with a dog and a cat. When we met (several times) they seemed like someone I would be friends with.

I may have been the one who made the comment in the other thread about people being a lot like you...maybe not LIKE YOU, but in the same points in life that you were when you bought the place...their needs are the same. You may have bought your home b/c the 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo (or whatever it is) is just perfect for the couple just starting out...their needs are the same as yours were when you bought the place.
We bought this home b/c it is 4 bedrooms and we could have a master, a room for each child, and a guest room. There is a desk i n the kitchen where kids can do homework one day, the yard is the perfect size for the kids to run and play...all things I am sure the couple who sold it to us were looking for when they bought the place over 2 years ago.

[cohdane]

Our last house, the owners sold to us even though we weren't the highest bid-- because we reminded them of themselves.

We lived on the same street they lived on before they bought their house. Worked in similar professions. And oddly, had the same Christian/non-Christian wife/husband marriage combination they did (which isn't common).

Fast forward to now.

We just sold to a couple who said they owned all the same books we did. They work in similar professions. They drive the same car (dented in the same spots). Our old neighbors tell us it's eerie how much they're like us AND they're the same unlikely Christian/non-Christian wife/husband combination that we and the previous owners were.

Kismet.

We sold to them even though they weren't the highest bidders.

[adlnc07]

Maybe I'm just an atypical homeowner, but I've had *nothing* in common with anyone I ever bought from or sold to!

Mostly because I'm a single female, and I've bought from married couples more than once! My last house I sold to a retired couple, and I'm no where near retirement age myself!

[JanS1516]

Originally Posted by Sweetbeet

Someone noted, in some thread or another, that people are often astonished to find out that the people who end up buying their house are very similar to them, in many ways. We recently signed a contract to sell our house, and indeed, it's eerie HOW much the buyers are "just like us" in all sorts of ways. They could be our twins! In fact, if we'd met them under other circumstances, we'd probably end up being close friends.

That got me to thinking, and it seems that in our family's transactions, this is the exception rather than the rule. We didn't get to meet the lady from whom we bought our house in Hawaii, but from what I do know, it seems there are very few similarities. We really had little in common with the people from whom we bought the house that we are currently selling (they were builders, who didn't live there but rented it out then remodeled it; hard to say about the prior owners, as they had died and we only met one of their sons briefly - though there are a few notable similarities there). My mom had little in common with the people from whom she bought her prior house, ditto for the folks to whom she recently sold it. Maybe it depends on the house? Some houses have stronger "personalities" that tend to be attractive to certain kinds of people, others are more "generic"?

Anyone out there find a particularly amazing similarity between a set of buyers/sellers of a property?

Yes and no. Like us, they have two children by the husband's first marriage and were expecting a baby. They really love the decor and the the size and features of the house. My husband is an accomplished handyman, having done most of the remodeling, electrical wiring, plumbling, etc., but the husband of the buying couple admitted that his skills were limited to changing light bulbs. That was why they wanted a house in perfect condition. Despite his lack of skills, we liked the couple and they like us.