[Leica] House sold, at long last
Brian Reid
reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us
Fri Dec 11 22:57:28 PST 2020
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:
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>>
>> Alicante, Spain
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>> > 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
>> >
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