Looking for first hand experience. My home has been on the market for over 200 days and I am beginning to question my agent's abilities. I have followed all of his advice, when we first priced it, he said 310, I thought it was a but high for our area but trusted him, every time he suggested a drop, I went with it and we have since dropped it to 270k, below what I purchased for and what the house is worth. It needs no major repairs and there's nothing wrong with the house, just relocated for work. TBF, it is a more unique house (built in window catio, stock tank pool etc) and I know the market is tough right now so I don't mind patience for the right person but he's pushing back on everything I am suggesting like maybe trying staging instead of relying on ai and virtual pics etc. and just giving me feedback on things I cant really change like the grade of the driveway (the house is built into the side of a mountain). I don't want to be ageist, he's 21 and I am...

My house has been on the market for 34 days now. I've had 8 showings but no offers. Currently listed for $515k. Comp: house down the street is almost the exact same and we both purchased our houses for the exact same price 4 years ago. She sold hers last month for $525k. Hers was on market for 90 days, then taken down, and then relisted and took another 45 days to sell. Mine is closer to the main road than hers which is why we decided to list for $515k instead. I was thinking lowering the price to $499k to get under the threshold of 500 to reach more buyers. My agent is hesitant to do this because that means I will not break even and have to bring a check to closing of about $4500. My thoughts are, though, that if it doesn't sell at our current price and I end up paying an additional 2 more months of mortgage payments, I've paid significantly over that amount anyways. Any thoughts/advice are much appreciated. Thanks! submitted by /u/Im_The_One [link] ...

My father in law is getting older and has accepted that he needs some extra help around. Miraculously, this moment of acceptance coincided with my wife and I house hunting and struggling to get financing, and we're more than happy moving to that area. We both live in different parts of Virginia. We are both successful professionals, her as a well-known artist and I went from the military to IT to college and I'm doing fairly well in the music industry now, so I might pursue that rather than going straight back to a corporate gig. Either way, we both have no debt beyond our current COVID mortgage (golden handcuffs) and two very reasonable car payments, and more than $50k but less than $100k in our collective bank accounts. A few data points: - FIL is onboard with either co-owning the property with my wife and I, or us taking total ownership, whichever works better for our collective planned outcome. His intention was to pass the house to us in his will anyways, just figures u...

The heading says it all. We placed an offer on a house that has been on the market for about a month with no offers yet. We offered under asking as there are some things we feel need to be done to the property and the house. Our offer was our best and final. They countered us asking for more. We are not wanting to change our price from original offer. Is it best to counter back with our original asking price? Or should we just reject their counter? To counter with our original ask feels passive aggressive, to reject is sending the same message in my opinion. But genuinely asking, which is better. Our realtor said she thinks to counter back is less harsh, but I think it’s kind of rude to counter back and not change our price.. submitted by /u/Life-Introduction693 [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1udkzmv/to_counter_back_with_original_offer_price_or/

Hello, my fiancée and I (20) both finish school soon and will be ready to move out of our respective parents houses by next year. We make good money in our fields especially for our age and was looking at manufactured homes for a first time buy since they are so cheap. Im curious what the general perception of these houses are and if its worth jumping into one as it would make moving out happen a little quicker or holding out a while longer for a small house. We have big plans for the future so renting is an absolute no-go as we need to build equity as soon as possible. We live in New Hampshire, USA if that changes anything. (average cost of a manufactured home sits around 150k-300k while most starter houses are around 300k-400k) All advice welcome, thank you! submitted by /u/capncrunch1227 [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1udbpgh/thoughts_on_manufactured_homes/

We’re in love with a 1960’s built country brick home on some acreage (the exact acreage isn’t known). The homeowners don’t want to wait for a survey to be completed. We think the appraisal is going to come in anywhere between 40-78k under their asking price (from talking to the appraiser, it’s still pending) there’s no record on when the roof was last done, the septic, or any updates since 1980. They also removed the wood burning furnace. It’s a 3 bed 1 bath. I want the home for whatever it appraises for, obviously not paying over appraisal. If it comes in way under, do you still sell it for that price? Do you wait and hope you can get someone that’s a cash buyer with no appraisal who over pays? submitted by /u/Remarkable_Royal_175 [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1uddx4m/sellers_how_do_you_handle_an_appraisal_coming_in/

What is your approach to this situation? Would you typically consider lowering the price after 1 week? I haven't seen anything come through. No texts. No calls. No emails. Open house this past weekend brought three couples in who seemed to like the place but that is usually taken with a grain of salt obviously. submitted by /u/SonOfQuora [link] [comments] source https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1ucmrsa/zero_showing_requests_in_first_week/

I heard from a coworker a while back that Gemini was surprisingly good at photo editing. I've used it a few times over the past few months while house shopping to visualize changes to houses we were considering but that would need some changes to fit what we like. I wanted to share the results in case this is helpful to others. Notes: This is the free version of Gemini ( gemini.google.com ) The houses shown in the examples already sold. I'm not trying to stealth market anything. Images in the examples This link has each of the images outlined below: https://imgur.com/a/xRqHAPL Example 1: House Needing More Curb Appeal There was a house my wife and I found intriguing except for its low curb appeal (subjective, obviously). I took a Street View screenshot and uploaded it. That's image 1. I told it: "Add some decorative trim to the front of the house around the garage door and windows. Change the color scheme to mostly white with black trim." That led to i...

I’m house shopping in a very hot market where houses typically sell above listing in a matter of days. This is in VA in a HCOL area, as reference a 2000sqft 3B/3B SFH goes for about $800K. Made an offer on a house that fits my needs perfectly. The buyers are still occupying the house and the house is completely filled with junk, it’s basically on the verge of being a hoarder house. (The house itself is still in great shape, it was fully renovated 3 years ago by the previous owners and whoever did those renovations spared no expense in making sure things were done correctly.) The listing agent also does not seem very motivated. When we went to tour the house, the lockbox code was not working and it took about an hour to get in touch with the listing agent (keep in mind this was on a Saturday on the third day of listing). The listing pictures were cellphone pics that the sellers snapped before their move-in, you can even see a thumb in one of the pictures, lol. Listing agent also lied ...