{"id":496,"date":"2004-11-09T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/11\/09\/stop-the-ride-i-need-to-get-off\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T16:16:16","slug":"stop-the-ride-i-need-to-get-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/11\/09\/stop-the-ride-i-need-to-get-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Ride – I Need to Get Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WOW! I’m completely overwhelmed this morning (hence my late blog entry). When our neighbor found out that we were selling the condo, she and her husband expressed interest in buying it. They thought they might want to break down the wall and create a 2,400+ square foot, 3 (full) bathroom condo. The wife said she and her husband would think about it further (probably crunch some numbers) and then get back to us.<\/P>
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This morning, she called back and said they are VERY interested and that they wanted to come by tonight to talk with us further. She even said she’s quite sure her husband would make an offer tonight.<\/P>
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Not 10 minutes later, I got a call from the broker saying that she also found 3 potential buyers (that have already looked at the unit and are planning to make offers today\/tomorrow). Now we have a dilemma. We haven’t (yet) signed a listing agreement with the broker (which was their fault for not presenting it to us before). The broker said she can’t provide me with the three offers until we sign the agreement to use her firm exclusively (which is standard practice). However, if we sign the agreement, we’ll have to pay a commission even if our neighbors buy the place (even though the broker wasn’t involved in that sale).<\/P>
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So now, do we sign the agreement and hope the 3 offers are good? Or do we go with our neighbors and save $21,000 in commission charges? What I’ve done is told our neighbor to get back to us ASAP this morning\/afternoon before I sign anything. She’s paged her husband and is hoping to get back to me when he’s out of his meeting. Then, I guess we’ll decide whether to sign the agreement or not. OY!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WOW! I’m completely overwhelmed this morning (hence my late blog entry). When our neighbor found out that we were selling the condo, she and her husband expressed interest in buying it. They thought they might want to break down the wall and create a 2,400+ square foot, 3 (full) bathroom condo. The wife said she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}