Our house has been for sale now for a little under four months. In that amount of time we've had over 30 appointments plus our open house, so we're definitely getting a lot of foot traffic through. On two separate occasions we had people that were pretty close to making an offer - two different buyers asked to come back a second time to see the house with their parents. The first couple came back a second time with their parents, after the apointment their realtor noted "they really love the house but have decided it's just not quite big enough for them. Lovely home", which means their parents talked them out of it (you don't come back to see a house for a second time with your parents and then realize it's too small; mom and dad pointed out it was too small). Another couple came back, again with their parents, and the feedback from that second appointment was "She loves the house, but he really wants a basement OR a garage. They are still thinking about it and I will keep you posted". I can't blame this one on the parents; I guess magically between the first appointment and the second appointment our house was going to grow a basement or a garage. Hmm. Anyway, the second appointments got both John & I pretty excited, we really thought we were going to get an offer! It was kind of a let down to read the feedback and see the "they love it but..." statements and know we weren't going to get an offer from either couple. Sadly, the disappointment we would feel over not getting an offer is greatly overshadowed by the disappointment of getting a shitty offer. A few weeks back we did get our first offer in, but it was insultingly low. The couple offered us 30k less than what we were asking for. Now at the time, our house had been up for a little over two months, we're anxious to move so we can get on with our lives, but we're far from "lets take any offer that crosses our plates". Best part? Their realtor told our realtor that their max price was 25k less than our asking price. Really people?
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So what has this whole process taught me so far? There are a lot of reatlors out there who are complete ass hats. I'm amazed with some of the feedback we get, for example the showing from Sunday left the following feedback "while the house is beautifully done, she does not want a Cape Cod". Why in God's name are you showing your client a Cape Cod if she really doesn't want a Cape Cod? Seeing it in person doesn't change the fact that it is a Cape Cod style house. Or to another realtor, "my client really liked the house, but she needs to get comfortable with the area". Why are you showing your client houses in a neighborhood that they don't like? We've had realtors show up insanely late (the cape-cod lady was here 5 minutes after her one hour long appointment window ended) or some not show up at all. At the end of the day we still live here! Please respect our time by showing up on time, canceling appointments if you have no intention of coming and, above all, know your own client and don't show them something they would have ZERO interest in! Ugh, it annoys me so much I even brought out the ctrl+B on that one. Asshats (my guy excluded).
As far as where we're looking to go, I'm started slowing down my searches on Realtor.com etc. I've fallen in love with a number of houses, one in particular that's in Woodstown Borough, but I'm afraid to get too excited. We've watched other houses we like be sold and we haven't even had a legit offer yet. At this point I'm frustrated, but I'm trying to keep a good outlook. John and I didn't expect to have the house on the market for less than a year, so to be in month 4 and to be this antsy is a little silly on my part. I guess I didn't expect to have so much traffic through the house, which is why it is discouraging. To have so many people come through and not one make a legit offer is what gets me down about the process. We've had others leave awesome feedback ("top of their list, when do your clients want to close?" or "they love the house, keep us posted") but it hasn't turned into anything. One of the appointments this past weekend, obviously not the one who hates cape-cods, expressed interest so time will only tell if anything comes out of that. In the meantime, I'm trying to be patient!
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