Selling Grandmas House
This isn’t her house.
In December, my Grandma moved into my parent’s house. She’d had a few falls over the years and around Thanksgiving it got so bad that she couldn’t live on her own anymore.
She has lived in Florida since before I was born so, having her in Dallas has been a blast for me.
Unfortunately, there is still one big loose end to tie up in Florida – her house. It’s in a lower-income area of Florida and is pretty old. She’s taken care of it, so it should do pretty well. Plus, she paid almost nothing for it when she bought it.
Though I’ve never talked about it on the blog, one of my goals is to buy a few houses, get renters in them, and make a decent future living as a landlord. My kind grandma knows this and asked me if I wanted to sell the house for her.
How could I refuse?
So now I’m in the process of helping her sell her home. I’m contacting the realtors, making sure all the house stuff get taken care of, and will be negotiating the final deal – all from 1,100 miles away!
Join Me
I’m taking you with me as I sell this house. I’ll be blogging everything from finding the realtor to getting the house cleaned to finalizing the deal.
You’ll learn with me as I figure out how this whole house selling things works.
Have you ever sold a house? What surprised you the most?
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I will give you 7 dollars right now!
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NOT sold.
C’mon, Alex! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give me something I don’t need at a discount price that I don’t deserve!
This offer won’t be on the table forever!
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Eight Fiddy, that’s my final offer!
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Hey never seen Grandma house look so good. Nice job fixing it up.
haha, I was searching for pictures of “houses for sale” and this one made me laugh.
There are houses in my city that are going for a few thousand dollars. They look about like this — with bullet holes in the windows.
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Haha, my grandmother’s house is MUCH nicer than this one, I promise.
Can’t wait to read more…
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Wow. It is very kind of you to help your grandma out through this process. With the help of a grandson who has a good head on his shoulders, I’m sure she will be all the better off!
I’ve never sold a house, but I bought one a year and a half ago. I can only imagine that with all the back-and-forth with buying a house, selling one is all the more complicated. What you’ll find is that there is a LOT of steps and paperwork involved.
Best of luck to you and to her!
Oh and I have a KILLER offer that will top all the other ones here: a cool fifty dollars and a free trip to CiCi’s! How can your grandmother beat THAT deal?!?
50 dollars and cici’s? I’ll have to talk to her about it…
Don’t take it Alex, you can get more…like all the toppings you want!! (plots carefully)