House For Sale!
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Several years ago my Mother bought a house for 13,000, well, OK, it’s not a house, it’s a trailer, but it’s in a nice community that keeps out the normal trailer riffraff. A few weeks ago she put a for-sale sign in the window and has been looking into options of how to advertise that it’s on the market without needing to pay some Realtor, or pay the fees to put it in the Home-Buyers Guide. She was not looking all that hard as Norm plans on staying up in
When they got back there were two messages on the machine with people inquiring about buying her house. One a small family I believe, and the other an older woman looking for something smaller then her house but bigger then an apartment. Both parties sounded very interested in the house, and now both have appointments with my Mother to come and look at it this upcoming weekend. If all goes well, my mother might actually sell the home by next month.
The current price on the house is 22,000 (9,000 more then they originally paid) and it’s by far one of the cheapest trailers for sale in the park, and likely the largest and one with the most options. They are making a steal in the real estate market by buying low and selling high, but are getting hosed in the actual going price. Regardless thought they are coming out ahead of the game. I told her to stand firm on the price because of the comparisons of near-by homes but if she wanted to come down to only drop to maybe 21,000 as any thing less and the folks could buy the trailer down the road.
Regardless though, they will certainly get enough money to pay the local moose lodge enough to have them packed up & shipped down here to Tennessee by the holidays. My Mother will likely show up sooner.