Paint your safe white. Then go to the junkyard and find an old refrigerator. Take the door off...Hide it by camouflaging it.
10-4.Zundfolge said:Go reread my post. You can't necessarily trust Realtors nor their buyers just because they've been prequalified for a loan.
I was thinking an open house was just a normal part of selling a house
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I don't know anybody personally who has sold their house from having an open house.
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That's how ours sold. Our real estate agent was a big believer in open houses. She had us do an open house the first weekend the house was on the market. One of the visitors at the open house made an offer mid-week the next week.
In some markets a safe would be a big selling point...also if the safe is bolted down it may be considered part of the house, so if you don't want it to go with the house you need to make sure its specifically listed in the exclusions part of a contract.Hoping whoever buys it wants the safe. Will give me an excuse to buy a bigger one.
That's how ours sold.
This isnt necessarily the case these days, at least around here. We actually priced our house slightly lower than the others in the area. Every realtor that came through said the price was good in their feed back, as did 99% of the people that went through that bothered to fill out the feed back. Every house that was up for sale in the area dropped their prices, some more than once, and by a good bit too. The market had already tanked by the time we put ours up and the others had been up a good bit longer, at least 4-6 months or more. Some sold, most havent, and we were VERY lucky ours did when it did. Its definitely now a buyers market and these days, unless your selling a LOT lower than everyone else, your going to sit with them. In the 16 years we lived there, we made basically no money at all on our house. The values seemed to remain pretty much level until the last year. Then the developers and yuppies found our formally "rural" area. In late summer 2005, the values doubled during the frenzy and existing houses were selling in a week and new houses and subdivisions were springing up everywhere.Your house sold because it was priced right and in a good location.
In some markets a safe would be a big selling point...also if the safe is bolted down it may be considered part of the house, so if you don't want it to go with the house you need to make sure its specifically listed in the exclusions part of a contract.
Good point.If it stays, you need to say it stays in the contract. If it goes, you need to say it goes in the contract.
How much does it cost to move a safe?I've had two jobs this last year that involved moving safes which were left behind out of homes. In both cases the new buyers had threatened to sue the sellers.