Archive for June, 2006

Making lowball offers day 2

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

As I mentioned before on Sunday I went to look at a bunch of houses in one subdivision. I decided to target just one subdivision for now until I've exhausted all the potentially motivated sellers within it. I looked at 6 homes and decided to make offers on just two ...

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Monday, June 5th, 2006

I've been actively trying to post more frequently about day to day stuff. I guess sometimes things don't seem important enough for me to write about so I don't even mention them. For example, I could go over the inspection report in detail and what I did to fix the ...

Escrow opened

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Finally got confirmation that escrow has been opened for SFH#1. I called the gas company to turn on the gas. Let's hope this sale actually goes through!! No word on my lowball offers yet. They both have until 5pm to respond.

Lazy Sunday

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

I went over to SFH#1 to check up on it. Basically to make sure the inspector didn't leave my AC running at 70 degrees and that all the doors and windows were locked. Everything was fine except one window was left unlocked. I turned the AC up from 87 to ...

Escrow hasn’t been opened and inspection results

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

So as of today escrow hasn't been opened. They claim they sent the funds to the title company on Tuesday so I'll have to call the title company on Monday to see what the deal is. This worries me and sounds fishy. I had the gas in SFH#1 turned off when ...

Let’s hope this goes through

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

SFH#1 has opened escrow (I think) and the inspection is scheduled for tomorrow morning. I don't think they'll find anything wrong because the previous buyer had an inspection and I fixed even the little nit picky stuff. In any case, the escrow money isn't refundable due to inspection anyway, but ...