The Perfect Homebuyer Story
A colleague of mine recently posted on her Facebook account her perfect homebuyer story. Dawne Davis of Bob Parks Realty LLC said,
I’m celebrating my clients’ “perfect” new homebuyer story. Robyn and Allen Robertson just closed on a brand new home (priced well below market value at $73.00 per sqft!) and actually netted $8000 in the process. The builder, in an effort to get inventory sold, offered an incentive that paid $10,000 of their closing expenses, AND they received their $1,000 earnest funds back at closing, so they got into the…
Dawne added in the footnote that the home even appraised for $10,000 more than the sales price.
Like Dawne, there are a few of my favorite homebuyer stories. One couple found a beautiful home that backed to a creek, there was a horse barn and some acreage to go along with the house that was all-brick, had gorgeous bamboo floors, and a great design. Yes there were a couple of little snags that we worked through, but the best part was that the appraisal came in at $30,000 over the list price. That was a good day.
Another great buyer searched for six months. My very realistic estimate on the number of houses we saw is over 100. But we found her home. It has a certain appeal in that a married couple lived there most of their lives and we think the ghost of the man still visits. There’s an old greenhouse that nature is slowly reclaiming. A workshop also sits behind the house and it smells like my grandfather’s old machine shop. It’s a home brimming with memories. What makes this such a great home buyer story? My buyer - as famous as famous gets in the Nashville society of bloggers and their blogs - is blogging about the surprises she discovers in her yard every week. She bought the home in the fall so we had no idea about what kind of plants and flowers would burst forth in the spring.
And now we’re finding she also has crawdads.
What have you discovered in your house or yard?
