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Old man tried selling his 2 acres and hand built house for $170k

My realtor friend just had an old man who owned 2 acres and hand built a 3 bed 2 bath log cabin house. On the low end this would sell for $500k in the area. His 2 kids didn’t want it so he wanted to get rid of it. The realtor tried convincing him to sell for more but he refused. They received over 40 offers in 3 days. It came down to 2 offers at $320k all cash. The old man asked what the difference was between the 2 offers. Realtor said one is a family who wants to live here and one is an investor who will most likely rebuild.

The old man picked the investor because he “didn’t want anyone else to make memories in his home”. That shocked me because usually you want to go with the family whenever possible and this guy actively went the opposite out of spite. If his family couldn’t have it, no one can. Honestly if this doesn’t sum up the boomer generation not caring about future generations I don’t know what does.

PS: As I’m writing this I realize it sounds fake but I promise this just happened last weekend, realtor friend has the house on TikTok, and had to cancel plans we had because of all the calls they dealt with.

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