We hired a realtor today, after many interviews and walk-throughs. We sign the papers to put the house on the market either Thursday or Tuesday (holiday weekends). We have one more big day at the house-- we rented a floor buffer/polisher and a carpet extractor so we can clean the floors. Stanley Steemer can stick their $600 quote! Momm is taking the kids, so me and hubby can both work on the house to get it finished. Then, it's cleaning staging AND DONE!!
Then it's hurry up and wait for an offer.
Moneywise, it's still sad. We paid 154,500in 2006. Put 40k into repairs and upgrades, and the maximum listing price we are looking at is 152k. Boo.
Some realtors tried to tell us we'd be lucky to get 89,000 out of it. I certainly hope they are wrong.
We hired a realtor
May 25th, 2011 at 09:55 pm
May 25th, 2011 at 11:32 pm 1306366329
Yes, let's hope the others are wrong!
That said, you are very fortunate compared to MANY under water. In our neighborhood, the people that bought in 2006 paid $650k for homes worth $250k now. They all foreclosed ages ago. But being way upside down is pretty much the norm, here.
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Jerry