After I told the pestering seller last week that we got in there and decided to sell the property, this is what she texted me after not responding for several days.

Wow!

Here it is:

I am so disappointed with what has happened in my personal judgement. My sister and I thought so much of you and trusted you and your character. Seeing our house listed on Zillow with pictures that you would had to have taken and contacting Zillow and being told it's under contract asking 40,000 it's just mind blowing. And when asking you about this you just blew me off with a lot of words!!!! And was told it's been on the market for months. Why couldn't you have been honest with me? Very very disappointing in you and your company. Especially you paying me a low ball park number. And turning around in weeks and getting 25000 more.

Now, she is correct, it has been listed for months. We've owned it for months. I think she's having sellers remorse.

Block. Don't let her remorse, her ineptness make you feel bad.

Sigh

Sounds like she was looking forward to seeing photos of the home restored and now is upset. She also didn’t want to deal with the relatives stuff, though, and feels bad about that.

Either way, not your problem.

Ignore her!

Block her!

The farmstead we live on we bought 13 years ago. There was no water. The house had been abandoned for a number of years. We had to literally beat the critters & the snakes out of it. The 5 acres were grown up in weeds & hadn't been touched in a number of years. The only redeeming factor was the large 40 x 60 shed on the acreage. We looked at it on a Saturday night of Memorial Day week-end, signed the contract at full asking on Sunday & closed on the following Thursday.

Seller had an agent working on his behalf. They priced the property. Wasn't my fault they priced it at $29K which is unheard of in our neck of the woods. Wasn't my fault I had $10K available to drill a new water well. Wasn't my fault we spent a year renovating & building an addition on to the house. Wasn't my fault the seller was about to lose the property to tax sale. He didn't walk away with much in his pocket after closing.

He is still walking around running us down & bad mouthing us that we robbed him of his property. Hey....I gave what you asked. Not my problem thru 13 years of hard work our property is now worth north of $200K. He is still pissy. He has found out who my dad is & has even confronted him about it (neither of us were raised locally). My dad just laughed & said "Yeah, they're pretty savvy kids". Do I care?? Nope. Not a bit. In fact, it makes me laugh.

What a drama mama.

Is it really under contract? If it wasn’t, you might consider calling her bluff. You could consider emailing her, “Dear Ms. Drama Mama: Your recent email expressing seller’s remorse got me to thinking. Life is too short to make enemies. In consideration of your changing your mind on the sale of your beloved family home, I make you the following offer. I’ll sell you the house back for the $15,000 price that you sold it to me plus XXX for me to cover my purchase, cleaning, and holding costs. (I’d add at least $10,000 for this but YMMV) Sale must be with no contingencies, with a non-refundable earnest money payment of $10,000 due within 48 hours and closing within 30 days. This offer is real and non-negotionable. If I do not receive your earnest money by 5 PM on Jan 21st, I’ll assume you do not wish to buy back the house. Please do not contact me for any other reason.I wish you well with whatever you decide.”

NE,

I'm with Ken. Legit deal, crazy seller, do more.

I believe it's the 99% Occupy mentality. You are rich so you should be criticized. Get used to it as you grow and have more visibility.

"The dogs bark but the caravan moves on." Picture a caravan of camels and people slowly trodding thru a village on a long journey. The dogs will nip at their heels but the camels keep plodding. The caravan has a goal and stopping for dogs is not part of the plan.

Block number and move on. You can't fix an attitude like this. They can't stand the fact that someone else found a way to market the house properly and make money, so they have to blame someone other than themselves. Nothing to say to that.

NE, in all due respect, Fellow REI,

One Question,

if you said "Nothing at All" (explaining your plan to her)

would she be pestering you ?

Right or Wrong, (I hold no judgement)

you said one thing to her and now your doing something else

and she is "hanging on" to your (spoken) words.

Your dealing with a Literal Personality,

who heard you say one thing (during) the sale

and sees you doing another thing (after) the sale.

She is "holding on" to her emotional interest on her (past)

property.

Second question,

how could this be avoided ?

A good Fisherman, knows how to hold his mouth.

Respectfully, RB.

Once upon a time, we bought a house that we shouldn't have, but I was dazzled by its square footage and space and what I could rent it for when the renovation was finished. (1700 sf, 3/2, on a third-acre lot.) That house taught me the difference between structural damage vs cosmetic damage. Ultimately, we realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew.

It was a house that had been inherited by a woman in New York, who wanted to sell it, so that she could use the money to move to DC. We bought it for $10k. We found out that the church next door wanted to buy it for their pastor's residence, but were much slower at getting their money together, so we got it first.

However, when we realized it was just too much for us at that point in our experience, we turned around to the church and said, "Hey, we thought we could handle this house, but we're about to have a baby, and the kids need us. We wanted to renovate it-- but family needs to come first. Would you like to buy it from us for the $10k original asking price?"

And they snapped it up. (Seven years later, they haven't renovated it, either.)

"And when asking you about this you just blew me off with a lot of words!!!!"

Sounds like the only words she wanted to hear was "let me give you some money." Anything else would just be considered blowing her off.

Proof that having systems in place work. These systems can be expensive upfront, but become priceless when they are used.

Julie, that ice cream comment! Glad I didn’t sip my coffee as I read that! Hahaha.

NE, once you block her, make sure you transfer her contact info whenever you get a new phone, but are keeping same number. Then block it in new phone.

NE