So, you're actually a home BUYER! Seller, too? It can be frustrating, when you're trying to concentrate on one particular home before it goes on market--Some sellers don't always logically-consider all their options.
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Thanks for the kind words.

I had boarded it up for hurricane Ike, and I met with the executors a couple of weeks after that when they came out to check on the house. I hauled away the old fencing around the patio blown down by Ike, removed the window boards, labelled them, and put them in the attic for them. I answered questions about the house, and told them all I knew about it's condition: what needed attention and what didn't, that the A/C and gas heat was new, the water heater had been replaced fairly recently, and I had installed a water heater timer. I expressed interest in the home at that time, but they acted like I was just trying to beat them out of it.

The house started out at $105K, then $99K, $95K, and finally sold 8 months later for $86K -with a lot of valuables included! Even the washer and dryer, which weren't very old. They had recarpeted the first floor, painted it, paid a years worth of taxes, utility bills, and R.E. brokers' fees before they got their money out of it... they should've took me up on my offer last year. Oh well...

I hear you. Unfortunately, the listing odesn't say anything about the furnishings, but they could have done a non-realty items addendum which would include the furnishings. We aren't privvy to that info though unless we are directly involved in the sale. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Sounds like you are a good neighbor to have!

Amber Carrillo, Broker/Owner
It Homes

I live next door and was very close friends with the dear old man that lived there for 17 years and passed away in June 2008. I had aspirations of buying it, but the asking price was way too high for the home.

It was FS for the longest time, then one day the sign went down, and people moved in a week later. The new residents are a retired couple and they speak very little English, so I can't converse with them. I assumed that they must be tenants, but that is apparently not the case.

Funny thing is, the house is still full of his furniture- even his Hi-definition TV and high-end Stereo is still set up in the living room. They must've bought it with all the furnishings included -that is why thought it might be a rental home instead of being sold.

After the other Realtor replied to my question below, I ask around, and one of my neighbors told me they had heard it sold for $86K. When I pointed out the furniture through the open windows, they were just as baffled as I am...

I did a lot of work to that house over the years, and new it like the back of my hand. The house had lots of upgrades, and I had installed a large roof-mounted TV antenna and cabling, separate high-grade TV cable (he had Comcast cable w/DVR, and off-the-air HDTV tuners as well as FM stereo radio tuners fed by the antenna), computer networking cable, and telephone jacks throughout the house, and thre dedicated 120volt Electrical power for his Audio/Video system. The antenna still works today- you should see the HDTV picture quality -and no subscription required!

Sold at 86,500 in May, 2009. ..It SOUNDS like what you're really doing, is, planning to Sell YOUR home. If that's the case, we'd like to save you a lot of learning time+pain, and talk about what you REALLY are needing. We've SOLD HUNDREDS of homes, right here, in THIS area, and will only give you STRAIGHT-TALK, and then, let YOU decide what's best, for YOU. You can Google us, as Joyce & Tom Dawson, review some of the 30+websites that our homes are listed on, and see for yourself the differences in having agents highly-experienced at Selling, for Sellers, and in assisting Buyers. Or, better yet-- give us a CALL, and let's TALK, about what you REALLY want to know. --Best regards, Joyce & Tom Dawson 281-376-8100

Hi Garwoodv6,
That home sold in May of this year for $86,500. It was a cash sale. It was not furnished. Please let me know if I can help you with any properties. Thanks!

Amber Carrillo, Broker/Owner
It Homes
832*643*5632
ambersells@sbcglobal.net