As you may recall, I'm moving to an apartment in June. It's already been leased, and the monthly savings will be nice.
HOWEVER, the current house has been listed, and I'm really uncomfortable with the random tours we're beginning to get. Ideally, I'm told, they should occur when we aren't home. Uh, no!!!
Even though most of my belongings have gone to NH, there's still a lot here. Paintings, guns cabinets (empty, of course, since I own ZERO, ZIP, NADA, NO guns), electronics, cameras, money... there's quite a bit lying around still, much of which could vanish without my noticing. So I'm concerned.
Realtors aren't supposed to enter without first getting our "okay," but there's nothing to actually prevent them from coming in. If they did it during the day, I wouldn't know. The realtor who has the listing told us that he receives an electronic signal whenever another realtor opens the keybox, but I don't know how that helps me.
Meanwhile, last night around sunset, I was watching TV and suddenly heard people talking. They were in the side yard, where I have no windows, just yacking up a storm. In seven years, I think the only time I've ever heard outside voices was when our neighbors threw one of their raucous parties. (They aren't good neighbors. In fact, they're terrible neighbors. But most of the time, they're quiet.)
So, this is all new for me and not good. I've never lived in a house before that was actively for sale. My houses in California were all sold after I'd moved out. Even the rental house was put up for sale AFTER the tenant had moved out. But, then, I wanted to fix it up before showing it. The current house is for sale "as is." The owner never had any interest in repairing it which is why it's in such crappy condition. (I think it needs $200 thousand dollars in work. That's a lot... but it would then be worth about $800,000.)
He's currently asking $625,000. I don't think he'll get it. In today's market, though, who knows?
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