deferred maintenance: Deferred maintenance, the cold, hard way...
- 12/22/08 04:26 AM
I was just about to log on this morning when the power went out. This was the type of thing I had expected for the last week of inclement weather. When the weather gets cold and we get several inches of snow our power grid bights the dust. Our power went out about 11 years ago for 14 days. We were considering whether to remodel our house or build a new one. After that incident, I made the easiest sale of my life occurred. I sold my wife on a home power generator. Fortunately for the next 7 years we never … (2 comments)
deferred maintenance: The bad guys win!
- 11/07/08 12:03 AM
We, as agents and Realtors, find ourselves every day trying to justify the price of one house to another. Whether we're in a listing presentation or working with buyers, we have to be the bad guy. If you take 2 identical houses side by side, and one is priced higher and has always been maintained and kept up, the other has clogged gutters, moss on the roof, chipped paint, dirty windows, etc. the buyer will simply take the house where the owner has taken pride in ownership. The deferred maintenance seller is usually blind to the fact of neglect, because it … (12 comments)
I was just about to log on this morning when the power went out. This was the type of thing I had expected for the last week of inclement weather. When the weather gets cold and we get several inches of snow our power grid bights the dust.
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