If you were paying attention a few weeks ago, we talked about some strategies for making a successful offer on a home purchase. The goal was to help new buyers ensure that their bid would be accepted over the others (assuming there were competing offers). While I talked about eliminating as many stumbling blocks as possible, these were intended to allow your offer to rise to the top of the heap and make it easy for the sellers to say yes .
For some reason, the universe (if you subscribe to that sort of thing), has been teaching me the lesson that there are always two sides to every story. Be it the anti-fracking folks trying to retain their potable drinking water or the anti-Monsanto groups working for food that has not been through Frankenstein s lab. This week I d like to talk about the flip-side of the simple offer. Granted, minimal contingencies might make your offer easier for the sellers to accept, it could also leave you exposed, and even forced to buy the home regardless.
Jason Robie: Yeah but
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Jason Robie: Cost-effective cures for your home
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As I mentioned last week, we re doing some renovations around the house. Our new front door and entry door to the garage are just awesome. They no longer bleed precious heat or scrape across the mud room floor.
We also replaced a half-wall between the main stairway (it s a split ranch) with a simple railing allowing more light throughout that entire area. All in all the changes brought more light in and are keeping the cold out. It s great.
The next project will be a bit more aggressive. The goal (still in the planning stages) is to bump out the wall in the mud room (that backs up to the garage) and build a little bench with cubbies above and below the seating area. This will help remove the shoe caddy that takes up floor space there and give a spot for coats as well.