That is the house I am currently living in an it is finally, FINALLY on the market.
Wait a moment, you might say, didn't you say back in July that you were moving, shouldn't you have put your house on the market already?
Well yes, originally that had been the plan. In fact, the house had been on the market once before.
In mid June the house was put on the market, around the 20th. Within twenty-four hours someone had made an offer for it. There were counter offers and more counter offers. Meanwhile my family is living in a constant frenzy of showing the house to people who will come whenever-ish. Finally, the last last counter offer to the previous counter offer to the other offers from the first offer we received from the first people to make the first offer was made, and everyone thought the house was sold.
They thought wrong.
There is something very curious about my house. It isn't hunted, no one has ever died there, and it's not like the house has pour structural integrity.
According to the city, the lot line for my family's house is nine feet more than it is in reality. (We're fairly certain that is has something fishy to do with the original contractor and inspector. Either they were idiots and missed the fact they gave nine of our feet to the next door neighbor, or there some bribery somewhere and the house got passed even though the lot line was incorrect.)
Also according to the city we are not allowed to sell the house with the lot line incorrect.
So the deal fell though.
It wasn't as if we were the people who got it wrong, (or were bribed,) we just happened to notice it.
Oh, by the way, to correct the lot line you're going to need to have your, and your neighbor's property completely surveyed, and then the new lot line must be cleared with the city, then the county, then the title company, then the county again, and then last but not least we mosey on back to the city. It probably is not necessary but I'm going to go ahead and tell you that this took several weeks.
And it cost several thousand dollars besides.
Technically, some of that craziness is still going on, but it is near enough to being done that by the time we sell the house, and the escrow is over, it will all be done.
Basically for the past two months we've been in house limbo. Unable to sell the house, therefore unable to buy any houses in Tennessee. We couldn't pack, I really couldn't get a job, unable to do anything but twiddle our thumbs and wait for the city and county to take as long as they possible could to adjust our lot line.
But finally, finally, we have the house back on the market.
In mid June the house was put on the market, around the 20th. Within twenty-four hours someone had made an offer for it. There were counter offers and more counter offers. Meanwhile my family is living in a constant frenzy of showing the house to people who will come whenever-ish. Finally, the last last counter offer to the previous counter offer to the other offers from the first offer we received from the first people to make the first offer was made, and everyone thought the house was sold.
They thought wrong.
There is something very curious about my house. It isn't hunted, no one has ever died there, and it's not like the house has pour structural integrity.
According to the city, the lot line for my family's house is nine feet more than it is in reality. (We're fairly certain that is has something fishy to do with the original contractor and inspector. Either they were idiots and missed the fact they gave nine of our feet to the next door neighbor, or there some bribery somewhere and the house got passed even though the lot line was incorrect.)
Also according to the city we are not allowed to sell the house with the lot line incorrect.
So the deal fell though.
It wasn't as if we were the people who got it wrong, (or were bribed,) we just happened to notice it.
Oh, by the way, to correct the lot line you're going to need to have your, and your neighbor's property completely surveyed, and then the new lot line must be cleared with the city, then the county, then the title company, then the county again, and then last but not least we mosey on back to the city. It probably is not necessary but I'm going to go ahead and tell you that this took several weeks.
And it cost several thousand dollars besides.
Technically, some of that craziness is still going on, but it is near enough to being done that by the time we sell the house, and the escrow is over, it will all be done.
Basically for the past two months we've been in house limbo. Unable to sell the house, therefore unable to buy any houses in Tennessee. We couldn't pack, I really couldn't get a job, unable to do anything but twiddle our thumbs and wait for the city and county to take as long as they possible could to adjust our lot line.
But finally, finally, we have the house back on the market.
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