Quote:
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
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― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I asked Zillow if it could send me a video tour. A realtor named Dawn reached out to me.
Neither the Zillow employee nor Dawn specified that she lived in my area and for which company she worked. She had not looked up the property that interested me, either.
She asked for the address and then said "That house is okay, but have you seen this other house?!"
She is selling that one and I hardly looked at it before.
Zillow says that she has not had any sales in the last year. A Google search showed an article in the local paper from last year that described her as a "Dedicated office manager."
It sounds like she is new.
She doesn't have any reviews on Zillow.
This is an overhead view of her property:
The right shows how well a garage big enough to fit those two trucks would fit on that property.
They posted the house for sale in February for $200,000. They lowered it to $185,000 in early April and $175,000 in late April. If I asked the selling agent to offer $160,000, that would be in-line with how they would lower their asking price a third time, the realtor would receive almost double the commission that she would receive with the full asking price, and it would be her first commission in up to 12 months.
What if you had someone install a carport? I could have professionals pour concrete for the pad and a driveway and install an intersection roof like this:
I could do the framing, siding, insulation, and drywall myself, and have someone install the garage door.
Mom wanted to get out of the house, so we looked at the place in-town. She said that it looked worse in-person, but it was all right.
Between Zillow and Dawn I have six new e-mails, but all that I learned is that she got married last month.