[Tchere4u]

Hello,
We are trying to sell our 5 bdr, 2 ba house in Norfolk, beautiful home in nice neighborhood. $190,000. If anyone is interested please email me at tgaudette2@nycap.rr.com.
We are a military family and currently paying two mortgages. The market as you know is tough and our house in Norfolk is not moving or the real estate agent isint too motivated. We are way up here in New York and are not able to be there to push things along. Please help us!
If anyone is out there who just wants to chat about these problems, as I'm sure we are not alone, I look forward to chatting with you.

Thanks so much
Teresa

[mcmama]

This is a good point and opens a good discussion. You might want to remove your email though, since the private message function of this board is better and will generate response. You can have it arrange to notify you when you receive a message.

Also please note that families.com is not in the business of buying and selling houses. This post is for discussion only. If anyone wants to negotiate with Teresa, they should do so via the pm function.

[mcmama]

I am selling also. I have noted that media hysteria here in the NYC metro area often does not quote the actual statistics accurately. Buyers appear to be scared to commit right now, because the same folks who turn 3 inches of snow into a category 5 storm are predicting that it is 1929 all over again. In the NYC metro area, this is laughable. Things are slow, but they are not crashing.

Real estate is local, and so are the statistics. Who else is selling, and what effect is the gloom and doom having on your feedback?

[J920]

A 5 BR/2 BA sounds absolutely palatial by Florida standards.

[MommaColleen]

Originally Posted by mcmama

Real estate is local, and so are the statistics. Who else is selling, and what effect is the gloom and doom having on your feedback?

We sold our house in the late winter/very early spring (I’m in SE Pennsylvania). It sold in 4 days! It really helped to have a go getter agent that marketed it to everyone that would listen. She had a couple lined up to view the house before it even hit the market. They liked it so much they gave us an offer the day they looked at it and for more than the asking price (they knew there were other people scheduled to look at it later in the week).

I just talked to my agent last week and she said the market has really dropped off in the past month. She said she was much busier in January and March. She has more houses listed right now but no one is looking at them. She believes that much or it is because of the doom and gloom that is being plastered all over the news about the economy.

We were fortunate to get ours sold when we did.