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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: When life gives you lemons...

So tonight my fiancee and I put a bid in on a house that's been on the market since November of last year. I gathered my family together to see it and give us the ok, they agreed with us that the house seemed perfect, so we went to my realtor's house to fill out all of the paperwork. We sat there for two hours filling out paperwork and then she called the seller's realtor to let them know we were faxing in a bid.

Apparently all of the contracts had been signed and the house had been sold this afternoon.

How the fuck do you make lemonade out of that?

-Wes
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

once you have time to settle into whichever house you eventually find, that one will seldom occur to you.

and I'm pretty sure there's a fermentation process to turn lemons to alcohol, no sugar required.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Wes, that really sucks. What sucks more is that your realtor had you spend that much time on paperwork before checking on the house. Usually once someone is "bidding" on a house and the process has been started the realtor network that all realtors work with have this information. This was your realtor wasting your time by not taking the five seconds to check her systems.

Yeah, that kind of happen to me once. We were practically all settled then we got to the point where we would start to fill out the paperwork and found out that the house was in the process of being sold.

I don't even remember what the house looks like anymore.
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aerisdead · . Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 254 Location: Toronto, Canada

dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:44 am Post subject:

at least you know to fire that realtor, eh?
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:02 am Post subject:

See, according to our realtor it was the other realtor's fault. Ours called theirs earlier in the day and made plans to see the house last night, and if their realtor had known that it was off the market she should have let her know that there was no need to waste our time.

-Wes
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dhex · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

that's just what they want you to believe.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

SuperWes · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject:

Got some lemonade tonight! My fiance and I bought this house! We're going to repaint it so that it's not so garishly ugly, but we're pretty pumped! Move in day's 30 days from now!

-Wes
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Congratulations! I really like the paint, though.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Excellent! Congratulations!

And I think you are right: I think the previous tenants are swingers. That house is like a giant easter basket ... and sex.
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dizzyjosh · . Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 64

dude tell me it comes with the wolf dreamcatcher!

seriously though that looks like a nice place (i even like some of the colors, but my mom painted my childhood bedroom to look like a castle, and later made my little bro's room look like silverpine forest) and i'm glad you guys lucked out. backyard + hot tub = what america is about, yo.

SuperWes · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject:

*christina* · . Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 16 Location: St. Louis, MO

Did he tell you about the carpet in the master bathroom, the carpet that climbs the wall of the bath tub? And how there is no shower in there, only a jacuzzi? Someone's booty (not to mention their jiggly bits) has been rubbing on that carpet by the tub. This room is an abomination of all that a bathroom stands for. There is no cleanliness here!

Even while I think how gross that bathroom is, I'm kind of proud of our house for being a sex shack. I never thought to open the dishwasher but I bet it's full of dildos.

~christina

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DaleNixon · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 179

Nice digs M8. My wife and I bought a house without a realtor (For Sale by Owner). It was a really simple process and both sides of the deal saved a bit of cash. Did we get screwed? Only time will tell!
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Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

speaking of which...