UPDATE ON HOUSE FOR SALE

Well here is the update:

We were about to drop our Realtor and take the house off the market until after the holidays and then place the house back on the market with a new Realtor.

However, we receive some feedback from the couple that took a 2nd look at the house, which was the Realtor told us not to expect any feedback until after Dec. 11th.  Why that date, who knows.  So we hang in limbo.

Then last week we received a call from the Realtor that another couple wants to look at the house on Saturday (12/03/2011).  To date, we have not received any feedback. 

The good news is, we are receiving some traffic....however, we are sooooo beyond frustrated that we have to hang in limbo.

I (HW) is beyond frustrated with the current Realtor and is sooooo ready to move onto another Realtor.  I have already made a few calls and will be ready to jump at a moments notice. 

To be continued....

TWO WEEKS AND NO FEEDBACK

We reached out to our Realtor again today and still no feedback.  We are beyond frustrated ... we will provide you with more information in a few days.

To be continued....

Current House Status Update - Week 8 and 9

Sorry we didn't post last week regarding the status of our current house. So we decided to add last weeks post to this weeks post.  Not much to report...still no calls, no showings.  We didn't get a chance to contact our Realtor regarding our next step.  However, we plan to follow-up with him within the next week to discuss our options. 

Update regarding the neighbors:
We haven't heard back from the council president regarding the status of our complaint.  However, last Friday we noticed that the one neighbor had a bunch of mulch delivered and that he has been spending some time (a very small amount of time) in the front yard with the weed whacker and laying some mulch down.  However, we believe that this is just a band-aide to the real problem and that it is not going to take care of the problem.  Also, we are still waiting for him to remove all of the junk from the front and back porch and to take down the Christmas lights that they hung up 13 years ago and never use. 

We plan to reach out the council president AGAIN to see if we can get a status on our complaint... i.e. how long did they give the neighbor to comply with the complaint. 

For now we are trying to stay optimistic that we will get an offer and be under contract by the end of July.

Current House Status Update - Week 7

Well the second week; no showings, no calls!!!!  We understand that it is summer and people are very busy and are on vacation.  However, we were hoping that it wouldn't come to this.  We plan to meet with the realtor next week to discuss our strategy. 

Update on the neighbors:
We received a response this morning via email from the borough's Council President (not from the borough's Compliance Officer) stating that (paraphrase), "sorry for the delay; however, I didn't realize your emails were going to SPAM.  Please send me the address of the property."  What...we already gave you the addresses.  After the initial frustration wore off; we were thankful that we at least received a response.  We provided the address information and we will continue to follow-up with them until we see some results. 

Thanks everyone for your support with this.  We will continue to keep you posted as we receive more information.

Until next Friday...

Current House Status Update - Week 3

Well another week and no offers.  Due to the lack of attendees, we decided not to have a Realtor tour this week.  However, we did have a man look at the house on Thursday that indicated he would bring his wife back to look at the house.  To date, we haven't heard back from them, but it has given us some hope that the house will sell.

Update regarding the neighbors: Well it appears that the "hoarder" was removing items from his back porch so that he could replace a refrigerator.  Neither neighbor has made any additional attempts to clean up their yard or house.  It looks like we will make another complaint to the borough compliance officer...this time it will also go to his superior.

We look forward to another week of great weather and hope it will bring out a buyer.

Have a great weekend everyone...thank you to all of the armed forces who have served or are serving to protect America.

Current house page - click on the link to view some pictures of our current house

Current House Status Update - Week 2

We received a text Sunday morning from our Realtor stating that another agent has a potential buyer interested in seeing the house.  So we tidied up the house and took off for a few hours.  A few days later we received some feedback from our Realtor, which is nothing that surprised us.  However, anytime you receive negative feedback - it hurts.  Especially, after you spent so much time and money to fix up the house. 

There is one issue that is out of our control - our neighbors on the right and left - lets just say to be nice have let their house and property go.  The one neighbor has never cut their grass and we believe they are hoarders and the other neighbor cuts the grass about once a month and the backyard has a wooden playground set that has fallen down and the grass has never been cut.  We filed a complaint with our borough, but nothing has changed.  We don't know what to do next and it is soooo out of our control and it is driving us nuts.

Thursday was local Realtor tour #2 - so we tidied up the house and took off for a few hours.  We returned home to find out "no show" again.  Our Realtor states that we don't have a lot of agents or activity where we live so this is not a surprise. Regardless, it is very frustrating.

Saturday is supposed to be nice; hopefully, we will see some activity this weekend.

Current house page - click on the link to view some pictures of our current house

HOUSE FOR SALE

We have been MIA for about a week now because we have been very busy working on our current house to place it on the market.  Today, our realtor took the pictures and video of the house (what a beautiful sunny day with no rain) and we have been told that the house will be listed by the end of the day.  Hopefully, we will receive some interest in the next few weeks and the house sells quickly. 

As for our RH house, we met with our RH rep. last week and finalize our options.  We will post more details in another post.  We did find out that break ground has been pushed out 1 additional week from May 25th to June 1st. 

Now we have to catch up on what other bloggers are up to and will post more about our final selections in the next few days.

Current house page - click on the link to view some pictures of our current house

REALTOR MEETING...

Today we had a several hour meeting with the realtor regarding our current house.  Except for a few minor things, we are ready to put the house on the market.  The realtor will return on 04/26 to take the video and pictures.  As of May 1st the house will be listed and we can only pray that it doesn't stay on the market for very long.