Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No. I vacated my house in March 2019 (including moving the servers to Fremont) and started some repairs. Repairs finished, it was listed for sale on 3 May 2019, and went unsold for a year and a half. We dropped the price 3 times during that year and a half. The financial, then political, then medical climate scared everyone away. 4 days after the election, buyers started calling. There was a 13-month period during which only 7 single-family houses priced above 20th percentile sold in the entire city (population 66,000). On 2020-12-11 10:35 pm, Richard Man wrote: > I suspect Brian is counting the time he was preparing to move. Houses > still > move REALLY fast in Palo Alto, even during the Pandemics. A 3-bedrooms > still fetches $2.2+ millions, and would be gone in 2 weeks tops. And > now > with the Doordash and Airbnb IPOs, there will be lots of demand for > high > end houses > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:38 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> Congratulations! I am surprised it took so long in such an attractive >> place?we keep reading about the housing shortages in your part of >> California. When we moved from the Netherlands to Spain in 2007, it >> took >> until 2010 to sell our house in NL, at a large loss which took another >> 4 >> years to pay off. That was painful. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> >> YNWA >> >> "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > On 12 Dec 2020, at 00:51, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Today, 11 December 2020, at 2:30pm California time, we closed escrow on >> the sale of our house in Palo Alto, which was put on the market 3 May >> 2019. >> > >> > http://reid.org/~brian/images/HouseSold.jpeg >> > >> > It's been a long slog (588 days end to end), and the tribulations of the >> last couple of weeks (incompetence on the part of participants in the >> sale >> process) will be stories to tell once we recover from it all. >> > >> > I have been too stressed to take pictures of the world around me. That >> might even change. And we do have to find a new house. >> > >> > Brian >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information