Selling a house

[Doyle]

Only a privileged white person would call Ballantyne an awful place to live.  

[Zaximus]

I actually want to move to Dillworth as soon as I can.  I live in Indian Trail but, I didn't work uptown at that point when I bought it.  The drive is killing me.  I can save like an hour a day of my life if I lived closer to uptown.  Wife and me have no kids so seems like a good idea.

[Jase]

9 minutes ago, Zaximus said:

I actually want to move to Dillworth as soon as I can.  I live in Indian Trail but, I didn't work uptown at that point when I bought it.  The drive is killing me.  I can save like an hour a day of my life if I lived closer to uptown.  Wife and me have no kids so seems like a good idea.

Highly recommended.  Getting out of work at 5:00 and getting home at 5:05 for the win.

[Zaximus]

5 minutes ago, Jase said:

Highly recommended.  Getting out of work at 5:00 and getting home at 5:05 for the win.

Yeah it takes me over an hour each way to go like 11 miles or something, unbelievable.  

[Niner National]

On 2/24/2016 at 8:18 PM, ARSEN said:

Yep...  Just sold it at 30% gross margin...  pretty amazing.

pff, my value has gone up about 75% in 4 years.  The benefit of buying in the hood on the fringes of nice areas I suppose.

[Niner National]

10 hours ago, Jase said:

Highly recommended.  Getting out of work at 5:00 and getting home at 5:05 for the win.

Yep, barely commuting is a priceless amenity. It takes me 3-4 minutes to get home from work. I can never go back to long commutes again.

[Ja Rhule]

16 hours ago, Niner National said:

pff, my value has gone up about 75% in 4 years.  The benefit of buying in the hood on the fringes of nice areas I suppose.

Yep, there is heavy in flow of younger population in Charlotte who wants to live near uptown...  That's why everything is going through the roof.  Go millennials! 

[Ja Rhule]

And my contract offer for a house in Ballantyne was accepted.  

It just mind blowing how houses in Ballantyne just fly off the market.  If a house goes on sale on Friday, it literally sales within 24 hours.

We seen a house that gone on sale on Friday and by Saturday 3pm it had 5 offers.  We were not the highest bidder (probably lowest) but they picked us because we gave them the option to rent it back from us if they can't find a new home within 6 months.

[Zaximus]

Man I really want to move uptown but I have some repairs to get done and whatnot and I keep putting it off.  I guess I need to find a good handyman or something.

[Jase]

11 hours ago, ARSEN said:

And my contract offer for a house in Ballantyne was accepted.  

It just mind blowing how houses in Ballantyne just fly off the market.  If a house goes on sale on Friday, it literally sales within 24 hours.

We seen a house that gone on sale on Friday and by Saturday 3pm it had 5 offers.  We were not the highest bidder (probably lowest) but they picked us because we gave them the option to rent it back from us if they can't find a new home within 6 months.

Its like that where I am, too.  My neighborhood in matthews, in the winter mind you, houses are coming on and off the market 2-3 days max.  Charlotte real estate is HOT right now.

[thefuzz]

1 hour ago, Zaximus said:

Man I really want to move uptown but I have some repairs to get done and whatnot and I keep putting it off.  I guess I need to find a good handyman or something.

You don't have to fix them in a fast paced RE market.

Put the house on the market if you want to sell it.  Then you can negotiate the repairs if you get a contract.  If you don't get an offer soon, you can do it yourself.

Some people don't care about the small repairs if the price and location are right.

[Zaximus]

Just now, thefuzz said:

You don't have to fix them in a fast paced RE market.

Put the house on the market if you want to sell it.  Then you can negotiate the repairs if you get a contract.  If you don't get an offer soon, you can do it yourself.

Some people don't care about the small repairs if the price and location are right.

I may.  I kind of want to replace the carpet, it's the junk they first put down when a home is built and it could really help the look inside and shouldn't cost too much.  

[thefuzz]

10 minutes ago, Zaximus said:

I may.  I kind of want to replace the carpet, it's the junk they first put down when a home is built and it could really help the look inside and shouldn't cost too much.  

Home Depot, 0% on a credit card for the first 18 months.  Sell the house, and pay off the card with the income.

[Mrs Pantherfan]

On 3/7/2016 at 9:55 AM, Jase said:

Its like that where I am, too.  My neighborhood in matthews, in the winter mind you, houses are coming on and off the market 2-3 days max.  Charlotte real estate is HOT right now.

My husband and I were looking at houses this time last year and it was the same way...Prices are up from this time last year as well..Thank God we bought when we did or we wouldn't be able to afford where we're at now