The "WTF" Thread

Seriously. I have a bridge to sell them.

Asked them a reason? I would just be happy that they are offering more than the asking price.

It is a norm in the San Francisco Bay Area to pay at least $50K over asking price ( depends on the area of course), some of the area will get $200-$400K over asking price.

Personal letter is a standard. This is one of letters we got from one of the prospective buyers. We did not sell the house to them.

Things have cool down in a certain area here.

That is an authentic for the WTF thread.

Sorry but that makes me want to vomit.

I'm going to the supermarket today if I want a pork chop do I have to say *but I've loved this pig all my life.
Please I need for the pigs sacrifice to mean something to me and so by eating this delicious pork chop I can truly make her part of myself allow her to live on in me...* ?

IMO Buying and selling a house is no different to buying and selling a loaf of bread.
Someone wants me to spill my guts over a house it's not the house for me.

It actually works in certain situation:

- I ended up selling my house to the people I believed would take the best care of the house. I am very sentimental to every property I own. I also tend to sell to the people who have the same lifestyle as mine.

- In 2015, my husband got 7 offers for his house. He sold it to the second highest bidder because they had a 5 year old child and the wife was 5 month pregnant at the same time. He thought they should have the house asap.

- My sister and her husband were not the highest bidder for their house back in 2012 but they got the house because the owners graduated from the same university and they also had a son who went to the same medical school with my nephew.

Realtors also told me it's quite often that personal reasons are the deciding factor in the SF Bay area market.

We renovated and rebuilt our last house our reward was the fact that we received almost double what we paid for it when we did sell it.

I appreciate some people put their emotions into a house, for me it's bricks-and-mortar. I wouldn't write a letter like that because I find it personally degrading to go down on bended knee basically with a sob story so that someone will sell me a house, it's just not for me. But I realise Americans are obviously much more sentimental than us Dutch.

I don't think it's any difference that a cover letter we send in with our resume for a job application or an interview to a prestigious school. Private schools where we have to pay ten of thousand of dollars for attendance require interview for both student applicants and parents. There is a reason why the Ivy Leagues and more prestigious schools such as Stanford, Duke, MIT..... require interview and personal essays.

People will do whatever it takes to get what they want, also buying a house sometime creates a personal or business connection. One of the places we own now belonged to a venture capitalist. We became friends and his firm has helped my connections raise millions for their businesses.

I suppose as Cassie said, it's a cultural thing and just not what we are familiar with.

I think it's weird to have to write a letter as to why you want a house... "TO LIVE IN...?" lol it's not like it's a living being that you want to ensure will go to a loving home.

lol yes, even worse! I'm paying extra to write someone an essay!? No thanks!

For all my 'it's just about the money' chat. We were really pleased that we genuinely liked the people who bought ours.

Just wondering why 10 months later, the grass is uncut, and no-one has done anything to keep up the maintenance let alone move in.

Houses cost a L O T of money, ours more so, and to buy it and leave it sitting is downright weird.

Here, at least in this Bay Area, the social economic issue is very prominent, I am not aware of the minority discrimination in this area or any other areas in the US. Money talks here. Typically and generally, it's the aggressive financial approach of the minority population such as the Asian people that drive everything, housing price, education admission at prestigious schools, leadership position at global corporation such as Microsolf, Google, Pepsico, Blackberry.

Why did people in that area discriminate against minority? is it the race issue or is it because the are poor?

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/surf-school-father-children-murder-mexico-qanon-b1901780.html?

And people wonder about why people want to remove misinformation from the internet... Crazy stuff like this!