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re: Lowering then raising the price of your home
Posted on 9/9/15 at 6:26 pm to lsufanintexas
Posted on 9/9/15 at 6:26 pm to lsufanintexas
If it's in the MLS, it will show price changes, so it will show the old price, the new lower price, and then the newest price which is the same as the old price, and it will show the dates listed.
I can tell you as a recent buyer, I saw several homes do this and that by itself got the house scratched off my list.
If there isn't value at the lower price, how in the world is their value at a higher price?
I actually saw something more odd than that. There was a house listed at 200K, and it was dropped to 190K. Made an appointment for a few days later to go look at it. In the time between then and the appointment, it went up to 240K. I called the listing agent (I wasn't using my own agent) and asked WTF? She said well he's now willing to sell it bond for deed. I said, great, I don't need that, will he sell it at 190K traditional financing? She said no, he wants at least 210K.
Finally there is the house behind/next to me (I'm on a corner lot) which was FSBO and he was asking 245K. Very nice home but overpriced. Had it listed FSBO for months. He was an investor. Then, he decided to list it with a realtor, and set the list price at 260K (i.e. enough to pay the realtor commission). I laughed my butt off. He ended up selling it through the realtor for 238K.
I can tell you as a recent buyer, I saw several homes do this and that by itself got the house scratched off my list.
If there isn't value at the lower price, how in the world is their value at a higher price?
I actually saw something more odd than that. There was a house listed at 200K, and it was dropped to 190K. Made an appointment for a few days later to go look at it. In the time between then and the appointment, it went up to 240K. I called the listing agent (I wasn't using my own agent) and asked WTF? She said well he's now willing to sell it bond for deed. I said, great, I don't need that, will he sell it at 190K traditional financing? She said no, he wants at least 210K.
Finally there is the house behind/next to me (I'm on a corner lot) which was FSBO and he was asking 245K. Very nice home but overpriced. Had it listed FSBO for months. He was an investor. Then, he decided to list it with a realtor, and set the list price at 260K (i.e. enough to pay the realtor commission). I laughed my butt off. He ended up selling it through the realtor for 238K.
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Posted on 9/9/15 at 7:08 pm to LSUFanHouston
Your house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If you can't sell it at the rock bottom price, you would be retarded to raise the price back up unless you just don't want to actually sell your house.
What is your plan? Are you trying to upsize in the same area? If so, sell your price for whatever you can get for it b/c by the time your house sells for the price you want, the bigger house you are getting will have increased at least that much. Also, interest rates could have risen by then also.
What is your plan? Are you trying to upsize in the same area? If so, sell your price for whatever you can get for it b/c by the time your house sells for the price you want, the bigger house you are getting will have increased at least that much. Also, interest rates could have risen by then also.
Posted on 9/10/15 at 12:55 pm to LSUFanHouston
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I actually saw something more odd than that. There was a house listed at 200K, and it was dropped to 190K. Made an appointment for a few days later to go look at it. In the time between then and the appointment, it went up to 240K. I called the listing agent (I wasn't using my own agent) and asked WTF? She said well he's now willing to sell it bond for deed. I said, great, I don't need that, will he sell it at 190K traditional financing? She said no, he wants at least 210K.
Finally there is the house behind/next to me (I'm on a corner lot) which was FSBO and he was asking 245K. Very nice home but overpriced. Had it listed FSBO for months. He was an investor. Then, he decided to list it with a realtor, and set the list price at 260K (i.e. enough to pay the realtor commission). I laughed my butt off. He ended up selling it through the realtor for 238K.
In today's day and age with technology to track price fluctuations I'm surprised that worked, but one of my dad's favorite stories to tell is about when he sold his first house.
He listed it for X, let's call it $200K, for 2 months and didn't get a single offer on it. His agent comes to him and tells him he needs to drop the price. So dad says raise it to $230K. The agent is like WTF?!?!
The house sells in a couple weeks at $230K. His theory was most buyers tell an agent how much they want to spend and get sent to X number of houses within that range. He couldn't find someone in the $200K range who liked his house so he figured he'd try the $230K range before dropping to the $170K range.
That much fluctuation these days, however, would probably raise some eyebrows.
Posted on 9/14/15 at 8:13 am to LSUFanHouston
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Finally there is the house behind/next to me (I'm on a corner lot) which was FSBO and he was asking 245K. Very nice home but overpriced. Had it listed FSBO for months. He was an investor. Then, he decided to list it with a realtor, and set the list price at 260K (i.e. enough to pay the realtor commission). I laughed my butt off. He ended up selling it through the realtor for 238K.
In your opinion the realtor got him over fair market value?
Posted on 9/14/15 at 3:17 pm to LSUFanHouston
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he decided to list it with a realtor, and set the list price at 260K (i.e. enough to pay the realtor commission). I laughed my butt off. He ended up selling it through the realtor for 238K.
It's not a bad strategy b/c sometimes people just want to believe they got a deal. The last 3 houses I've sold I overpriced them initially just so I had room to deal. I sold all of them pretty quick and I received more than I originally wanted on two of them.
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