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What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

Does anyone know? I have personal reasons for asking as we are in a time crunch and may have to consider this....

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

Who knows? She had 102 responses to her initial post with people later asking for an update. She never responded whatsoever. Woman Frustrated

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

We bought our retirement house 4 years ago sight unseen. Our son and our agent saw it and sent us dozens of pictures. We finally saw it the morning we closed, and it was perfect.
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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

the poster was @kittyloo 

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

Unless you have someone you can completely trust--NOT a realtor--to give honest and comprehensive information, I would never buy real estate without seeing it in person.

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

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Aren't you the one that was unhappy about moving?  Can't you rent for a couple months or even stay at a motel?  I can't think of anything more important.  We have friends who spent one year looking and finally agreed to one because of pressure from their kids.  It turned out that house backed up to a gravel pit and they spend nine months a year listening to those trucks loading up at 4:00 in the morning.  

 

Edit:  I would have had a few choice words for my realtor.

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

@kittyloolives in a small Town and really seems to love her house.

 

Don't remember the Title of the Thread where she talked about it.

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?


@depglass wrote:

Aren't you the one that was unhappy about moving?  Can't you rent for a couple months or even stay at a motel?  I can't think of anything more important.  We have friends who spent one year looking and finally agreed to one because of pressure from their kids.  It turned out that house backed up to a gravel pit and they spend nine months a year listening to those trucks loading up at 4:00 in the morning.  

 

Edit:  I would have had a few choice words for my realtor.

 


@depglass  it seems as if that's what @BoopOMatic  and her DH have been doing. I think she said they are usually gone for years so buying is a lot better than paying rent.

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

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I used to assist in recruiting physicians for a medical group. A large percentage of the ones coming from out of state chose to rent the first year so that they wouldn't have to committ to buying in  neighborhoods they were not familiar with.

 

They usually would only come down the two times we paid for it and not spend their own money to come down and look at houses longer before their job with us started. 

 

They would then take time within their first year working for us to buy or build. Renting makes sense under pressure.

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Re: What happened w/the lady who was buying a house sight-unseen?

Yeah.....    because what could possibly go wrong with that?