aapostrophe's Discussions

mikal1, maybe she would be willing! or at least i want a real pony out of the deal. one with wings that will fly me away to the sparkly land where there are no houses, only HOMES. don't focus on the deal, vics- focus on that commission check!

R- that's nice for you and all, but the people that lost your house will get over it after a bit and find something else- nicer, hopefully cheaper- they have every opportunity. there are some amazing houses that i would love to have, and if i gave up going out ever, or lived on ramen for the rest of my life i could maybe have one of them.... but just because you want something doesn't always mean you should have it. i certainly would never pay ANYTHING for , well, anything. except water after the apocalypse.

ANYTHING meaning, of course- any number... or she put it- WHATEVER.

congrats on your sale rockin- really you don't hear a lot on these boards about a seller getting the price they want so that really is great for you!full disclosure- i actually just bought a house... it is an absolutely ridiculously charming little bungalow dude near the river parks system, great area and schools. oh, i wanted it allright, but i took the time to do some hard due diligence and make an intelligent offer. i actually ended up feeling like their asking price was pretty realistic and attractive after all the research i did.then there was the "other offer" on the table- true, false? who knows. by then, i was in looooove with the place. did i care to raise my offer? it hurt but i had to say no, i will not raise my offer. that extra 5000 that vicky pooh-poohed as brunt pizza was 5000 over what i decided i would pay for this particular house before i fell in love- and love is no match for logic in the capricorn mind. i totally might have "lost" the house (i didn't) but if i had, eventually there would be another one. no need to bet all my dough on black. my apartment is awesome and i will be sad to leave it when the time comes.anyway, my long winded point is that it really would have sucked to lose this adorable house, but i would have stayed within my budget and wouldn't have paid more than my gut told me that it was really worth.

palmtree- if you're going to try and knock somebody after almost three pages of comments have passed, you're really going to have to step it up and be funnier. more funny. funnier-tastic!

within the "duh" forum, this post should be further sub-catagorized into the "OMFG, really? again?" file.

jkonstant-  i did (hooray) get the house, my agent did some negotiating through the various little parts of the contract.  the seller did not put her refrigerator in the contract, but we wrote it in; we crossed that out.  we stated that the seller didn't need to pay for a home warranty as had previously been written in..  little things like that.  i got the house probably because i had no strict time frame that i needed to close in and the seller hadn't bought her next house yet.  totally agree on the $40 , $50 piddly amounts adding up.  it's not that i can't afford them; i just don't want to!

"Not to mention, not until she wants to avoid paying a commision, does whatever he said suddenly bother her"yeah, totally. there is an awful smell coming from this one. i'm calling BS on the whole story.

this is my issue with this.  i think if she really felt she a had a problem with these "warm feelings" dude supposedly has for her then she would be asking about that.  and just that.  but she doesn't care enough to do anything about it until she sees that she might be able to skip paying a commission.   she appears here out of nowhere though, asking how she can cut dude out because she found a buyer herself and doesn't want to pay up.  that seems pretty convenient.  maybe there's more, but if there is, she should give that to us.  because as it is now, she needs to change agents within the company and stop trying to get around paying a fee that she willingly signed up for.   

rockin-  no one said they couldn't afford the $30 bucks.  but $30  is not really $30-  it's $5000.  and after a few years, that $5000 becomes not just $5000, but $5000 plus interest.   you may be more cavalier with your money, but if i see that i really don't have to pay that out, then i am not about to.   it's this kind of thinking that makes it possible for me to AFFORD all sorts of things, if i decide that i want them!