If you were dreaming of buying my mother’s house in Auburn, WA, you may have missed your chance: we had two offers this week at roughly the asking price, and we’re accepting one. There are the usual details that have to be taken care of, so there’s a chance the whole deal could fall through, but otherwise you’re out of luck.
I’m sort of surprised that a home would fly off the shelves so quickly, but that’s the housing market in the Pacific Northwest, I guess.
It’s not official until the closing. Lots of steps before then; the inspection, any remedial repairs, etc.
I’ve been looking at houses and had considered, due to family, the greater Seattle area. But stuff there is high and it flies off the shelf. I’m not surprised you’ve got an offer already.
You didn’t ask enough. Had the same experience with my Mom’s condo in Florida. Not enoiiugh of a capitalist I guess.
Oh Reginald… People in Seattle don’t do home inspections. You buy with none of those contingencies, or else you never end up owning a home.
Housing market here in NJ is insane, in my neighborhood houses are under contract in 2 weeks or less. For asking price.
Please sell it to someone that is going to live there, instead of a rent-seeking parasite, or ever worse, a corporation.
The only thing surprising is that you ONLY got the asking price instead of 10-20% over. Housing market must have cooled down from when I last looked.
Not everyone needs to squeeze every last dollar out of a house sale. He got what he wanted, and everyone is happy (assuming it goes through).
I had a feeling it wouldn’t be on the market that long after I saw this article the other day:
Economist: Boeing contract will have big impact on housing in Western Washington:
https://mynorthwest.com/4006545/economist-boeing-contract-will-have-a-big-impact-on-housing-in-western-washington/
That’s the housing market everywhere. :Prices are being inflated by investors and gen Z can’t find homes they can afford. That’s been in the news for years now and you only noticed when you played a role in the problem.
Do the buyers know that the house was inhabited by a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER ENTHUSIAST?1??
Well if anyone wants to live in the great PNW, only a 40-minute commute into that throbbing metropolis, Tacoma (90 minutes to Seattle), check this listing. My father built it by hand, and it’s where I grew up, a few years earlier than PZ. It has had several owners and multiple remodels since my parents sold it around 1980, but I can still recognize the outline (and the outbuildings).
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6303-288th-St-E-Graham-WA-98338/49184359_zpid/
House prices here in Central Texas have been flat to down for the last two years since rising a ridiculous 50% during the first two years of the pandemic. The average house price was $400k in Austin in January 2020, and spiked to $650k in early 2022. It’s been bouncing around between $550k and $600k ever since.
I can’t complain too much since I’m likely to be moving somewhere cooler within a few years and the bump in value will come in handy, but the property taxes aren’t much fun to pay.
In the news
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/11/16/tarantula-arrest-centipedes-peru-korea/
Peruvian authorities arrested a 28-year-old South Korean man for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas, centipedes and bullet ants out of the South American country.
Security officials at Peru’s Jorge Chavez International Airport in the capital, Lima, were conducting security checks Nov. 8 when they noticed a man who appeared to have a swollen stomach, according to a press release Wednesday from Peru’s National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR). The security officials asked him to lift his shirt.
They found dozens of camouflaged plastic bags and containers reinforced with adhesive tape and tied to two belts. Upon closer inspection, the officials noticed hundreds of dark, crawling creatures that turned out to be 35 adult, hand-size tarantulas, 285 juvenile tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine bullet ants native to the Peruvian Amazon River, and probably from Peru’s Madre de Dios region.
Also, I found the original bill of sale for the house in a pile of legal papers.
Would you believe my parents bought the house for $28,000 in 1976?