Dear Short-Sale Seller,
We understand that you have suffered a financial set-back and it's the last thing you ever expected to happen in your life. We know that you loved your home and didn't really want to sell it. We understand that you have dealt with the lender for months and are angry. We know you don't have discretionary funds for maintenance and repairs and didn't blame you for the deteriorating condition of the home.
We, too, dealt with your lender for months because we stayed in contract for the long haul. When the lender wanted to receive the top of fair market value but refused to pay for the Section 1 repairs, we didn't bail. When the home was 12 hours from foreclosure, we spent an afternoon getting the notarized signatures from all parties as requested by the lender in order to delay the Trustee Sale. We closed in 22 days.
We were part of the team that kept your home from foreclosure. Could you have considered thanking us with a little elbow grease? Was it too much to ask to have the carpets vacuumed, the counters wiped off, the oven and stove top clean? Could you have taken a little time to remove the hair from the shower drain, the trash in the garage and the dog poop in the back yard?
Does it bother you to know that even though you had over a week to clean a little bit at a time after the closing documents were signed, we had to hire a professional house cleaner at a premium price to get it done in the 1/2 day before the moving van arrived?
We are very disappointed,
Your Short-Sale Buyers
(Many homes in short-sale transactions are left spotlessly clean so this should not be construed as the norm.)
Wendy Cutrufelli
Broker Associate
925.917.1135
The positions on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent Alain Pinel Realtors' positions, strategies or opinions.
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