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Today in St Louis - June 19, 2007
OK, I have just spent an hour with my elderly seller on Wyoming.  She called me all upset this afternoon, and I drove out to her new residence to try to calm her.  On my last post, I stated that we took less for the home than she originally wanted to accept.  After twenty showings, we had no offers.  So we adjusted the price in writing.
Then we got an offer - lower than she had anticipated.  We made a counteroffer to the buyers and they accepted.  Apparently, her son visited yesterday and told her she shouldn't take less than a certain price for the house.  He upset her terribly and she called me almost in tears.  She wanted to back out of the contract...
So I ran back out there.  We went over the net sheet again.  I also explained to her that we could probably get the higher price if she would put in new windows, install a new roof, a new kitchen, rip up the carpet and redo the hardwood floors, install a new air conditioner and update the electric, paint the entire home.  She agreed with me that these repairs would cost in the neighborhood of $20,000.  I explained ... more

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