[Leica] House sold, at long last

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

Wow! Well, I am only looking at the slum houses under $3 mils, ha ha.

That's mad though. Well, good that you have sold it finally. BTW, check out
Marissa Meyer's ex-mort club house next time you are in town. She has giant
Christmas balls all over the place

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:57 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
wrote:

> 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
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> >>
> >> YNWA
> >>
> >> "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"
> >>
> >>
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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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