We got an interesting call this afternoon. Since we took the house off the market around Thanksgiving last fall, we’ve been dodging two or three calls a day from local realtors trying to get us to list with them. We almost never answer the house phone anymore because it’s ALWAYS a real estate agent. We’re going to go back on the market, but we’re going to sell it ourselves. Anyway, I got distracted while working from home today, and I picked up the phone when it rang. It was someone in real estate asking us if we were still looking to sell our home because she might have some potential buyers. Hm. She asked if we’d like her agent to call us. Sure. I hung up. John said there’s no way they actually have interested buyers – this must be another ploy to get us to list with them. Well, I can get rid of them if that’s the case. So then we got another call. I recognized the name as an agent who showed our house once last fall when our regular agent wasn’t available (actually, she didn’t – a junior member of her team did), although she didn’t remember us until a few minutes in. Anyway, she has buyers looking in our area. I told her we’re listing it ourselves and we aren’t really ready to go back on the market just yet, but we’re close. And I said if they’re in a rush, given some notice, we might be able to prep the house to show it to them sooner, but we’ll definitely need notice because we are NOT show-ready now. I didn’t tell her our master bathroom is still without a toilet (currently hanging out in the office) and vanity. Hopefully we’ll have finished the bathroom before anyone wants to see it. If not, well, we’ll just tell them our plan and hope it doesn’t scare them away. John is spackling. Then we can paint. I would really like to have the bathroom back together by the end of the weekend.
Oh, she asked what we’re asking for it. Yeah…we haven’t really talked about that yet. So I told her I could tell her what we listed it for last fall, and that we’d probably start in that ballpark this time, too. Hope that was okay. What am I saying? Of course it was okay. These buyers, whoever they are, are not going to want our house. That’s how this is going to go, assuming this wasn’t some diabolical plot by our former agent to sabotage our For Sale By Owner plans and sneak back in as the listing agent through her colleagues.
There’s just no way.
But wouldn’t it be nice?