Today, I was closing the deal on this beautiful $200k ranch in the country. The buyer soon pulls up and we get to discussing the contract terms, soon the buyer asks the seller," Wow why is this house going so cheap?" The seller replies, "Do you believe in ghosts?" There goes my $8,000 commission. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I spent 3 hours trying to close a simple $400 deal with a homeowner. He spent 3 hours telling me about his life story including his marital problems, his philosophical views of the world, AND he read me 20 pages of haiku poems. Only 3 hours later did he tell me he couldn't accept my deal. FML
Today, after days of working with a client on plans for a project, I received a message halfway through completion, saying the deal was off because my prices were "so low, it seems like a scam." FML
Today, my new neighbor informed me with great relish that the house I have just bought is haunted because 30 years ago a man shot himself in the kitchen. I'm now paying a huge mortgage on a house I'm frightened to be alone in. FML
Today, I found out that my childhood vacation home was on sale for 149K. We sold it for 99K 9 months ago. FML
Today, I bought a home at a bargain. It will need 5 grand in repairs to fix plumbing and electric, but it's mine. When I pulled up the listing to show pictures to my friends, there was a new listing that was in the same neighborhood, and a larger, nicer house that is move in ready. Same price. FML
Today, I submitted an offer on a house. I got a call a few minutes later saying that it had collapsed. FML
Today, I found out that the piece of vacant land I purchased for $20,000 is illegal to build a house on, due to acreage restrictions. Thank you, realtor. FML
Today, after saving for years, I was finally ready to buy a home. I found a decent place. I put in an offer. A hedge fund bought it 7 minutes later, for cash. FML
Today, my partner and I went to the inspection of a house we wanted to buy. The whole roof was illegal. This is the second time our realtor has shown us a house with major issues. FML
Today, I was supposed to close on a house. Unfortunately, our lender decided that they couldn't finance us and denied us a loan, after 3 months of us digging up paperwork, saving money, and packing. Now we have to scramble to find a new place, while our insane landlady screams at us. FML
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Dukedj 0
Wow. That is totally screwed up. I hope the seller was saying that as a joke, if the seller wasn't then they are a total idiot.
Darth_Taco 14
You got the wrong buyers. If I had the money, I would've bought the house BECAUSE of the ghosts. Unless they were vengeful spirits. I'm sorry though, that really sucks. Especially in this global economy XP.
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shawnarawwwrr 0
the seller was serious right? exactly what 91 said. theres disclosure laws, where you have to put stuff about murders in the contract. you should have put it in the contract earlier though, so you wouldn't have wasted your time on that buyer who ended up not buying BECAUSE of the ghost thing. again what 91 says though, the seller is an idiot as much as you are. YDI.
lyndy 0
um by law you have to disclose the fact that a house could possibly be haunted if you don't you could get sued so thank the seller
user1101 0
oh i see, the owner was a nut job! i would of slapped him in the face
missus_butter 0
#93, you cannot sue over a house being haunted because hauntings cannot as yet be conclusively proven. You can only pass the house off to someone else. Besides, it's possible for some people to live in a haunted house and never experience anything, then sell it not knowing it was haunted. Ergo, lawsuits over hauntings would be stupid even if they had legal merit, which they don't.
love4running 0
well usually if a house is considered haunted, it means someone died there if someone died there, the seller is required by law to tell the buyer so YDI for not telling the buyer earlier
FreedomFirst 0
#29 - Not ghosts, specifically, but spirits. People say "haunted" but some places are just plain evil. Possessed, haunted, a portal to another world, whatever you want to call it. And I would not sell a place like that to someone else. I would, seriously, burn it to the ground. If you mean that you don't believe in a spiritual world, well, that's just unfortunate. For you.
FreedomFirst 0
Oh, and #'s 93 & 96, my husband's first house he bought in college actually had a clause in the deed that said it could be basically returned if the house was unlivable due to "supernatural or unexplained activity." It had been empty for 30 years and had a history before that. It was a bit weird, but I guess it was perfect for a bunch of permanently drunk/high college students who couldn't tell the difference between spirits and hallucinations. Everyone saw stuff there but you never know how much of it was just them. I never did, but I felt stuff. I refuse to see things.
XOfiestypixie 0
#7- it does suck for the OP to be out $8000 because in real estate one can never guarantee their income. Some years agents can make almost no money and in other years they can make a lot. Right now with the "economy issue" (it's not so bad up in Canada, but Real Estate Agents are still having a tough time up here), agents aren't making very much right now, so $8000 is a big deal for them to not make. to the OP: that really sucks. I'm assuming you're in the states because in Canada, I'm almost certain the buyers cannot back out that late into the deal.
MikeTheInfidel 0
Anyone stupid enough to believe in ghosts deserves to lose out on a deal.
MikeTheInfidel 0
#98, you're kind of an idiot.