davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

Your shed must have so many treasures!
And the diorama sets are such *cough/realtorspeak* wonderful blank canvases with endless possibilities.    (Someone's been looking at way too much of that.)

If mouse droppings were gold I'd be rich! 

Realtor-speak... yes. I've been trying to get a real estate agent in Florida to realize what a "wonderful blank canvas" the Florida place is, but apparently selling a house that needs any work whatsoever is becoming increasingly challenging. Banks will not lend on houses needing work, insurance companies will not cover a house that isn't practically perfect in every way, and buyers want everything to be "modernized" and "up to date" even though they fully intend to rip everything out and remodel anyway - thus, agents either do not want to to handle the property at all, or they want the price to be practically give-away.

Yeah, prolly gonna try to put the Florida house on the market. The ac/heat system conked out, and it'll cost between $6500 and $8000 to fix it. Annual property taxes are $4400 (and likely to increase by at least 10% every year). It is not economically feasible to maintain two residences at this time. So... I dunno, still thinking things over.

Also, Florida is really crowded. That neighborhood is really nice, but the city is growing, tons of new condos and apartments going in, and the roads are already insufficient to handle the current level of traffic.

Whatever. I don't know. Seems like everyplace is turning kinda sucky... unless you're so rich that money literally means nothing and you can travel around the world on your private super-yacht. I obviously failed to make the right financial choices earlier in my life, as when I look out the window the window is not a port-hole and I'm not looking at the coastline of the French Riviera (which is not actually where I'd go if I had a super-yacht, it's more symbolic).

Have you had an agent look over your house and give you a ballpark estimate? (Then after they look it over more closely they'll revise that initial estimate down by 30 or 40%.)

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26 July - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"I say, good show, old sport!"