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Wow. Didn't know you were in RE now. Good time for it. I hope it's going really well for you.
I appreciate the reach out on this. My wife wanted me to call a friend of ours and ask him some questions, but I'm not going to do that unless I'm handing him our listing. It isn't right for me to ask him questions and then go off and sell it myself and I wouldn't feel right doing that with you. I have NO issues doing that with Zillow, though.
As I've had time to ponder this situation, I think I'm going to pull back for 30 days. Zillow showed our house increased 17k over the last 30 day period. I believe we're not at the crest of the wave quite yet. Once summer hits, we'll see it and I don't mind jumping a little early as to not be a second too late.
WIsh I could share some of the factors involved but nobody would believe them. They're extremely unique so I think there is only one solution that resolves all the plates we have spinning and that's to cash out and bunker down out West and build a new house there. Our property has doubled in value over the last year or so, and with a really nice new house should be primed for a big flip once it gets finished, if it ever gets started.
Of course, by the time the house would be built the bubble may have busted and we could be stuck there, but we're planning on buying a home outright cash as to have no mortgage. That seems to be where my head is at today.
My wife is a fan of inciting a bidding war. I'm not. Not a big fan of that kind of thing. I just want what I think is fair at the time. No gouging of anyone or using someone against another. If there's a nice family who really wants this, I don't want them to feel like we're going to move on from their bid for more money. So, just hoping we list and someone says they'll buy it and just hope and pray it makes it to closing, as I've had a bad experience with our previous home sale.
It's tough for me to want to use a REA for our home in this market. It's shooting fish in a barrel. I would prefer not to hand over 6%. I needed every single dime last time. This time I just want what I think is fair, and losing 15-18k just seems dumb to me as easy as it has been. Perhaps, if I wait too long, there'll be a glut of new listings once school ends so I may want to go a week or two early to get out front of that.
Again, I appreciate this very much. Selling a home is something I don't have much experience with. Someone much more about business would likely walk away with more than I will. Only thing I don't want and shouldn't happen is me doing something stupid. Let's hope.