We deposited the funds from the sale of our house today.
It was half of what we would have gotten if we had sold it at our asking price, and about 60% of what we really expected, but the offer, while insulting, was made with two provisions: no inspection and close within 7 days. As it was, it closed in 6 days.
It included a 19-page document explaining why the offer was so low (i.e. why our house sucked so bad). It had pictures of hideous things underneath the house. I didn’t bother to look at it. I have no interest in the nether-world of my former residence. Last I checked, I lived IN the house, not underneath it.
Our realtor, a trusted friend for almost a decade, was in favor of a counter-offer. We weren’t and we didn’t. We signed it and sent it back.
If they cheated us…so what. It’s all just speculation to say we could have gotten more. What I didn’t want to say was they we could have accepted their offer, but didn’t. And every month we were going to pay the mortgage payment and the utilities until it sold. As it was, we only paid one month that we didn’t live there after we put it on the market. And we didn’t have a crystal ball to know if a better offer would come soon, if at all.
When the offer came…we were moving into our new house.
Bird in the hand, man…bird in the hand.
