I get 2 of these calls a day on a 4 plex I own added to it a couple of dealer warranty phone calls and some other random annoying calls and I have to answer every call because my cell phone is my business phone.

I sold my dad's house last year and they still call and send mail weekly!

We live on a large hunk landlocked by the Chattahoochee River and a big state park and the junk mail never ceases!

What PITA's!

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It's aimed at finding people that are on the fence about selling and this might be the nudge it takes. I agree they are annoying but they work.

I have friends that wanted a house in a certain area. The market is so hot that they often couldn't get a bid in fast enough. They sent out hundreds of letters and found an owner that decided to sell. Attraction to seller was ease of transaction (specifically, didn't have to do massive clean up and put up with showing the home) and no broker fees.

So assume inquiries will increase and not decrease.

And cutting out the realtor fees...

A few years back it was the same, houses selling fast, multiple offers on everything regardless of condition or value.

Had my daughter write a letter to the seller introducing herself and her new husband, looking to start family, great location, house etc. Made the difference, seller took her offer, since she was in her 80's raised a family there are was moving on to her next phase in life moving in with her daughter.

We have been down here in NC for the past couple of weeks in a nice gated community in Pinehurst helping watch our new granddaughter while my so is away at ALC. We’ve been taking the little one out for a stroll daily and have been admiring how nice the subdivision is….then our DIL made the comment that it sure would be nice if you guys were closer….well that’s all it took and my wife went into high house hunting mode!

We looked at several but most of them were in need of $50-100K worth of work so we aren’t going there. Our DIL mentioned to one of here friends who is a realtor in this subdivision that we were interested and she mentioned that a house would be coming onto the market in about 2 weeks that was built by the top builder in the area about 3 years ago (sure….)

Well we went to look at it and it was just about perfect. Quality was definitely there and the house barley looked lived in. It turns out that the Owners are moving to be closer to their grandkids so we decided to put a full price offer in and included a separate letter explaining why we wanted to buy their house and it’s proximity to our kids home…

We are waiting to hear if it has any effects…

I'm getting them all the time now too. The thing is that we would like to move but there is no inventory. Inventory is so low where we live that Zillow has our home value at nearly three times what we bought it for and jumping 50k in the last two months. We just finished the basement and need to paint and update the upstairs before we sell - if we can find anything.

Phone calls? Ignore.
Emails? Spam.
Snail mails? Trash.

I don't get all upset over nothing. Really. These are nothing.

Yeah, I'd love it ever so, if people would just calm down in general, and this is part of it. I've had two people knock on my door recently, going door to door in my neighborhood trying to buy houses. FFS, get off of my property. If/when I want to sell, I'll let you know. What kind of dipshit spontaneously sells their house? Just go away.

We would be glad to get out of Michigan, and great that the house has gone up in value, but with everything else through the roof everywhere else, it doesn't matter.

Now that i have all this experience of working from home, would like to do it from someplace else...

You would likely be surprised at what little (starter) houses are going for here; more than we paid for our current home.

This insane bubble cannot last.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Yeah, I'd love it ever so, if people would just calm down in general, and this is part of it. I've had two people knock on my door recently, going door to door in my neighborhood trying to buy houses. FFS, get off of my property. If/when I want to sell, I'll let you know. What kind of dipshit spontaneously sells their house? Just go away.

Now that's funny. When the door knockers see the Eagle eyes they scatter quickly I would imagine.

We’ve been contacted a couple times in the past regarding our farm. I don’t believe everything has a price but a lot of things do. I told the realtor that we would consider selling. Gave her a price that would “convince” us to move. Her clients came and looked but didn’t want to pay the price. I explained there wouldn’t be any negotiation upfront so it wasted a couple hours of our time.
I interviewed for a job near the end of my residency. Small town in Ohio. The recruiter asked us what kind of home we would be interested in. He then proceeded to drive us around town and point out multiple properties that “weren’t for sale but could be bought”. My wife and I both thought it was funny at the time.

Values going up here. Some Houses in this neighborhood well north of 400k at most. When they call me, I tell them I’m asking 1.5 mil but will take 1.3. Some slam hangup, some give a nervous laugh, some “get it”.

I got a phone call yesterday by somebody wanting to buy my home . He knew my name . Said they would pay all closing costs , etc . Not today ...

The average cost of a home in Hawaii on Oahu is $800,000
If you make less than $65k a year you qualify for low income assistance

It screwed up when the average person cannot afford the average house

When you figure in interest on your loan it’s over $1 million your paying

Oh btw we also have the highest unemployment and a crappy corrupt government

The last 2 police chiefs quit and one is going to jail for 12 years

The wife just came inside with the mail. She was laughing and handed me a well printed post card from "Cassie". She wanted to buy our house. She should buy the dump next door. Its been vacant for the last 16 years (not really, it will be on the 4th of July). The reason its a dump is because our overpaid city government doesn't do shit. All kinds of code violations, visible from the outside.

I did do some constructive vandalism a while back. When Duke Energy took down the electric lines from the street, I took a rake and lifted them up and into the gutter so they'd be less visible.

Don't get me wrong, I like where I live. But I'd like it a lot more if that dump was gone. The simple reality is that you've got to tolerate your next door neighbors, as bad as they may be. And what you get next might be worse. The Jamaican terrorist that moved in back in 1997 was an example. It wasn't that he was banging his 13 YO step daughter that was so bad, it was that he liked beer.

Well, I'm pretty tolerant. I like beer too. Except this bum was lazy. I'm pretty lazy, too. But he would drink his 12 or 24 pack and toss his empties on his front lawn. At the time I had a theory he wanted to drive down property values so his friends and neighbors could move in. But no, he was just too lazy. So I took up constructive vandalism. I'd go to the garage and find a nearly used up bag of fertilizer and "broadcast" (that's throw to you heathens) a few handfuls out in his front yard. Right on the area where the empties lived. The bag said use every few months. Every few weeks made the crabgrass grow like mad. Didn't take long until it was taller than the cans. He was a lousy aim and they just kind of laid around, never really piling up on top of each other.

He had his fun, I had mine. Then the real fun began. The worthless city started sending him notices to cut the grass. He had to borrow a lawn mower. Kids were too young and weak to start it, so he had to get off his lazy ass and start it for them. Then they'd stall it out in the tall grass. Pretty soon they'd hit a can. Sometimes the mower would stall, other times they'd go flying to whichever direction the discharge chute was aimed. Good fun to watch.

But finally they moved on. Him to the big house for his fun with the stepdaughter, his wife to FL where the owner/her father lived. Of course the dump has been empty most of these years. I blame it on Jamaican culture, and our worthless city government. Your over zealous house buyers can have it. But be forewarned, there's an asshole on either side who might not be so tolerant the next cycle.

I ran into a college buddy this past weekend I hadn't seen since 2004. Turns out he lives eight minutes from me. I went over to his house and fell in love with it. I looked it up on Zillow and it said $679k. I looked mine up and it said $679k. Hmmmm. I was thinking there is no point in selling for crazy money and then overpaying for the next place. But if our houses are really about the same, I could make a lateral move to that neighborhood and still have about the same size mortgage. Obviously, closing and moving costs would be additional. But I can live with that.

Sure , I would love to sell my house . Then what do we do ? I have no mortgage and I'm too old to get another . Leave me the fuck alone . When we die , the kids will be happy to talk with you .

I always tell them everything is for sale its just a matter of price.

Then you give them some stupid price, and most hang up on me. Real professional, you called me.

I tell them sure!, I'm willing to sell. And then I give them a number double what the latest house in our neighborhood has sold for.

When they argue, I say I get at least 1 call a week about selling my house, so it must be worth it. No one ever calls back.

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I give them a number double what the latest house in our neighborhood has sold for . . . When they argue

Tell them, "That's my non-negotiable price. Take it or leave it."

Think about this..... with property values escalating who really gains?

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Think about this..... with property values escalating who really gains?

The tax assessor who will raise your rates until you have to move. And the school district which will do likewise to provide for al the new children's babysitting and kickback fees