Question of the Day

Are you motivated? Pile!

As I have gone through this home thingy, I keep hearing the buzzword "motivated". I just found out that motivated means in debt and unrealistic. Now most of you know that the market has gone south. Houses that were over 300K in the spring are now down in the 250 range.

So I did a bit of trolling today. Put in an offer on a house that both Bean and I were luke warm on. The property started at 375 a year ago. NO I'm not loaded. Houses are just way over priced. It is down to 299. That is still 22,000 over the tax base. I offered accordingly. They countered. NOT EVEN HALF the way. No way.

This is my rifle, this is my gun, This is for fighting and this is for FUN!

Would I.......

Could I.....


Live Here?
I hope so. Looking at 5 houses this Friday. The race is ON! Jan.15 is not that far away.
Basic strategy is to look for properties that have been on the market for 4 months or more. Look at tax value and then offer accordingly. I am going to put offers out there and see who bites with a counter. May have 5 offers out there as of Friday! May have none.

Bye,Bye

Not sure many of you are aware(or care) that my house has been for sale since May. If you go back to HERE you'll find my reason. Now the fun begins! Not only do we need to find a NEW house, we need to find Daycare and a school for LB! Not to mention hockey has just started for him.

Word to TwinCity home owners looking to sell:

Think of a price. Then take that price and SLASH it by 20K, then be prepared for tire kickers and brokers looking to steal your house. Then sit back and keep telling yourself "don't worry we'll screw the next folks who's house has been on the market for six months." Ahhhh.... the American dream!

That will give you solace when you sign that purchase agreement.

That's ok, we get to move back to the MAJORITY!