05-09-2007, 07:48 PM
yeah, we were lucky. We don't feel like we came down on our price; the offer was 10K above what we were willing to take, but OTOH we could have priced it 25K higher according to recent comps. We worked our butts off getting our house into great condition and staged it to look at its best.
There are still buyers around who can't afford to wait -- namely those folks facing capital gains if they don't reinvest.
What bums me out about the market in West Hawai'i and even Hamakua now is that you go see a place for 500K and it's a DUMP that needs structural as well as cosmetic and isn't even a very nice house after all that.
Who wants to spend that kind of money for a fixer project? Not I.
There are still buyers around who can't afford to wait -- namely those folks facing capital gains if they don't reinvest.
What bums me out about the market in West Hawai'i and even Hamakua now is that you go see a place for 500K and it's a DUMP that needs structural as well as cosmetic and isn't even a very nice house after all that.
Who wants to spend that kind of money for a fixer project? Not I.