Fun you can have when you no longer give a sh*t!

MarkShot · September 10, 2012, 04:54:48 PM

Yesterday, we told our realtor to put in a price change on our house. We raised the price a little over 3%. I would have gone for 10% if my wife had agreed.

The realtor has been whining non-stop almost going as far as to suggest that it is up to her to grant us such a change. In the absence of a sale, this was the most fun I have had yet! :)

LongBlade · September 10, 2012, 05:23:46 PM

Funny.

Greybriar · September 10, 2012, 05:41:58 PM

Nice one, Mark.

MarkShot · September 10, 2012, 10:02:32 PM

So, the agent wasn't talking to my wife for almost 2 days, but then she get a showing request for tomorrow at the new, higher, price. All of a sudden, she picked up the phone and was schmoozing with my wife for 20 minutes.

When I was younger it was used car salesman who were the sc*m of the Earth. But I think they have now been overtaken by realtors!

MetalDog · September 10, 2012, 11:07:43 PM

May your viewer become a buyer, Markshot.

Steelgrave · September 11, 2012, 12:21:06 AM

You ought to really screw with your agent and ask her if, since she was so very very opposed to the 3% increase in price, if she is ok with taking her commission based on the original, lower amount 8)

Martok · September 11, 2012, 06:54:57 AM

Ha! Steelie, you were reading my mind.

Steelgrave · September 11, 2012, 07:19:00 AM

^Vulcan mind meld, dude 8)

GDS_Starfury · September 11, 2012, 09:40:15 AM

^ more comfortable then the vulcan shocker.

Martok · September 11, 2012, 10:30:20 AM

Unless you're into that sort of thing.

MarkShot · September 11, 2012, 11:03:10 AM

There was one agent and her buyers who going on their 4th round of showings. With reasons for coming back such as "we want to see how it look on a cloudless day" ... Each time she came back, she would start with the nickel and diming; asking our agent "Do they have any 'wiggle room' in the price?".

When we raised the price, I told our agent to tell their agent that we just gave them the "wiggle room" they were asking for.

Windigo · September 17, 2012, 12:59:48 PM

did I read somewhere that prices in the US jumped the highest since the bubble burst?

airboy · September 17, 2012, 01:22:29 PM

Quote from: MarkShot on September 10, 2012, 04:54:48 PM
Yesterday, we told our realtor to put in a price change on our house. We raised the price a little over 3%. I would have gone for 10% if my wife had agreed.

The realtor has been whining non-stop almost going as far as to suggest that it is up to her to grant us such a change. In the absence of a sale, this was the most fun I have had yet! :)

This is such BS. Your agent has a legal obligation to follow your lawful orders. She could have her license revoked for this sort of action. Agents can advise, and can even decide to drop representation, but they must follow lawful orders.

airboy · September 17, 2012, 01:24:03 PM

Quote from: Windigo on September 17, 2012, 12:59:48 PM
did I read somewhere that prices in the US jumped the highest since the bubble burst?

Prices are up in many markets. But the price increases over the bottom in most markets are not very great. Prices in most US markets are nowhere close to where they were prior to the crash.

This was part of the business press readings I had on the first exam in real estate that I just gave.

Windigo · September 17, 2012, 02:22:26 PM

ahhhh OK, does this rebound (of sorts) reflect relatively unfettered market forces? or is the other non-invisible hand of government subsidies play into this?