# Sold our house in Four Days **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752 "2019-06-19T16:25:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/1 "2019-06-19T16:25:25Z")
Put it on the market Friday, showed it five times had an offer Monday accepted! Packing in four weeks and off to New Glarus, Wisconsin of July! Woot! ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/2 "2019-06-19T17:49:36Z")
IMHO as an ex RE appraiser you priced it too low. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/3 "2019-06-19T17:52:33Z")
You’re really moving to bumfuck, nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/4 "2019-06-19T17:55:56Z")
I’m glad you got an offer you were happy with and got the hard part over with so quickly. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/5 "2019-06-19T18:07:18Z")
Congrats! We were on the other side of a home sale - we saw the house the first day on the market and made a full price offer. It was during the start of the bubble and we didn’t want to play games and risk not getting it. Fifteen years later, no regrets. Hope you have an uneventful, break-free move! ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/6 "2019-06-19T18:12:52Z")
Hooray! What a nice start to your transition. Every now and then life offers a “perfect storm” of _good_ events. Hopefully you’re in a phase like that now. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/7 "2019-06-19T18:56:13Z")
Enjoy the beer! Yeah - the ease of the transaction and the lack of stress easily make up for a few thousand more you MIGHT have made had you priced it higher. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/8 "2019-06-19T19:07:42Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > IMHO as an ex RE appraiser you priced it too low. Nope didn’t. Realtor said it was on the high side and the offered over ask! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/9 "2019-06-19T19:10:05Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > You’re really moving to bumfuck, nowhere. Moving back to family. Been away for 25 years, hey it’s close to Madison and Chicago! ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/10 "2019-06-19T21:03:32Z")
Congrats! It is always nice to have things clean and easy. With regard to pricing too low, we did that intentionally in our last selling. What it allowed us to do is say post-inspection as well as to anything and everything that came up afterward, “Nope.” We believe you got a fair price- we are happy to move to the next buyer. Our agent was instructed to say as much. And it was great! We went above and beyond in our disclosures, and they tried to come back for another $5k off and our agent resolved it in 10 seconds. So we knowingly accepted a lower price to keep things fast and simple and allow us to “move back into” our house rather than keeping it “staged” and available for selling. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/11 "2019-06-19T23:00:30Z")
Congrats. Now you don’t have to clear out when it’s shown. The last house we sold got an offer at the open house, so we never had to leave. We staged the hell out of it, though. It was useful, because it was famous for selling so fast, so when they buyers started making trouble our agent said “make my day - it would sell again in a second” and they backed off. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/12 "2019-06-19T23:23:49Z")
Great! Hope the rest of your move goes as smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/13 "2019-06-20T00:53:06Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Moving back to family. Been away for 25 years, hey it’s close to Madison and Chicago! I teach college in Madison, and have a 40-ish student who lives in New Glarus. I said I was sorry she had to drive up to “the big city” and she said “No bigs. We’re up in Madison almost every day anyways. For shopping, restaurants and bands. And fun.” But she did say “Do you have any idea what it’s like to have to drive almost half an hour to the nearest Target?” Chicago? Now you’re talking big city. I love living exactly 2 hrs from Ikea, and less than 3 from the Loop. Hope you get to drive around a bit. There is nothing more therapeutic than the Madison Farmer’s Market and watching the sunset over brats ‘n’ beers on the UW Union Terrace. Or walking down Michigan Ave to the Chicago Art Institute and the Field Museum. (Although ironically, we often run down to New Glarus for some excellent bakery, a big Swiss lunch, and the brewery’s biergarten.) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/14 "2019-06-20T01:01:22Z")
Too good to live in Old Glarus I take it ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/15 "2019-06-20T01:36:11Z")
Listed on Sunday, an even dozen looked on Tuesday, 4 offers came on Wednesday, 2 over the asking price and we accepted one (the second highest–there were other considerations, including no inspection). I asked the agent had we priced it too low. She said no, at 969,000, any higher would have put it in the million range and gotten far less interest. I don’t know if that is true. But three days from listing to accepted offer. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/16 "2019-06-20T02:19:27Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > IMHO as an ex RE appraiser you priced it too low. Were you a psychic appraiser who valued properties without seeing them? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/17 "2019-06-20T03:53:53Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Too good to live in Old Glarus I take it When the immigrants from Canton Glarus (Eastern Switzerland) got to the rolling hills of Wisconsin, they decided it looked like home (the foothills, not the tops of the mountains). I have a Swiss last name from that area and all I got in Switzerland was “Ya, von Glarus?” Now here I get “Hey, ya got relatives down by New Glarus?” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/18 "2019-06-20T04:59:44Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > IMHO as an ex RE appraiser you priced it too low. Or simply “priced to sell”. Or it pushed all the new owners’ buttons. My Barcelona house was cheapish because the owner wanted it to move fast and without having to clean out all his stuff before showing; it also happens to have some features which make it better for someone with mobility problems but which don’t match most buyer’s mental images. As you know perfectly well, lots of buyers have problems imagining the living room with a different sofa or the bedroom that’s used to store hobby supplies holding a bed instead. I appreciated the mobillity features and offered to handle cleaning out myself anything the owner didn’t want or have room to take. Sold! And yet, it had been on a very hot market for several weeks. Long live other buyers’ lack of imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/19 "2019-06-20T05:22:22Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > IMHO as an ex RE appraiser you priced it too low. Doesn’t work that way out here in my market. The right places at the right price often fly off the shelves, often after a brief bidding war. I’ve seen quite a few places that linger more than two weeks without an offer start cutting asking prices. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752/20 "2019-06-20T13:26:53Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I teach college in Madison, and have a 40-ish student who lives in New Glarus. I said I was sorry she had to drive up to “the big city” and she said “No bigs. We’re up in Madison almost every day anyways. For shopping, restaurants and bands. And fun.” But she did say “Do you have any idea what it’s like to have to drive almost half an hour to the nearest Target?” > > Chicago? Now you’re talking big city. I love living exactly 2 hrs from Ikea, and less than 3 from the Loop. > > Hope you get to drive around a bit. There is nothing more therapeutic than the Madison Farmer’s Market and watching the sunset over brats ‘n’ beers on the UW Union Terrace. Or walking down Michigan Ave to the Chicago Art Institute and the Field Museum. > (Although ironically, we often run down to New Glarus for some excellent bakery, a big Swiss lunch, and the brewery’s biergarten.) My sister and brother in law both work for UW. we were one of the first people to gentrify the First Settlement, right off the square. (House now worth over half million) opened Essen Haus too. I’m familiar with Madison. It sure has changed though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sold-our-house-in-four-days/835752.md?page=2)