"I understand that sj has special needs and the value of what the property can do for her is important."
The value of what my FIST can do to your FACE is also important. [ETA: Hah! askye and I are on the exact same page!]
Seriously though--people pick houses for reasons all the time, they have X number of kids so they want Y bedrooms, or need a garage, or need a fenced backyard for the dogs, or whatever. Unless your house is SERIOUSLY unique (theirs isn't, right? It's just the best one you've found), that's not a justification.
Yeah, that is some ignorant bullshit.
Unless you've got, like, Paulie Walnuts the realtor who's saying you're a nice girl and he wouldn't want anything else of yours to get fucked up...so we're gonna make a nice deal, because, hey, accidents happen.(Man, I miss Paulie. I still want one. But I don't mean porn.)
Or maybe some place with full modifications, which really is hard to find(although, even so, could do without the subtle waft of Calvin Klein's Extortion.)
What asshats. A lack of stairs isn't "special," nor is needing same. If they've got a connection to the floo network, then they can jack up the price.
No it's not unique. It just happens to have a garage large enough for a washer and dryer. I can't drag laundry up and down from the basement. Other houses have garages too, so that is not something I intend to overpay for. It's also slightly bigger than other ranches we have seen but not by much.
"I understand that sj has special needs and the value of what the property can do for her is important."
"You should pay more for this house because you're disabled."
"I understand that sj has special needs and the value of what the property can do for her is important."
Not as important as what a lawyer specializing in ADA suits can do for YOU.
Ding ding ding, Toddson wins. Seriously, your needs, special or otherwise should have nothing to do with the other realtor at all.
honestly, that might be more of a fair-housing issue.
(takes off advocate hat, brushes dust and lint off it
I was talking to Mom and told her that and she gasped and then said pretty much what P-C said.
I also learned that my brother didn't sell the house and can't sell the house and it's going to go into foreclosure. The house was always in my ex sister in laws name, but he got power of attorney to sell it.
She died 5 days before the house was to close and the power of attorney didn't extend past death.
Also she had no will or life insurance so there's a whole mess of probate.
The foreclosure won't hurt my brother because his name wasn't on it, but he was going to get a little money from the sale and now he's not.
Plus the buyers are out of a house, the real estate agent is out money, and a repairman is out money because payment was tied to the closing.
