?? I think we have discussed all sorts of things about homes, rents, Facebook, Zinga, Minga, Chinga and whatever, I am just imagining words.
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? But, when I see Redfinnians throwing questions after we/they sign the paperwork and become homeowners, I wonder where's that guy who lead us/them to the front of such home and like what everybody imagines "he/she" opens the home or makes you open the home and with that gallant attitude shows you the home that's going to be yours for the years to come. Your wife, or your girlfriend or your husband draws some tears like a Magdalena, even 911 is dialed to call the ambulance because such emotion is taking its toll on one of you 
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? Wait, rewind back that movie please! I am going to start to tell our own story. Such movie doesn't exist or perhaps we are the exemption and not the rule.
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? After a month of anguish, we are exactly a year ago mad because the city had closed its offices due to the furlough. Then we hear there's going to be an additional % added to sales closed next year 2012, so in my stupidity we need to close now!
?? ?I call our realtor, he says he hasn't heard anything but it's in the news.
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?? We have had a amicable relationship with him. I think him and I are alike. We crack jokes, we tell stories about what we have witnessed in the RE market and so much. And, like me, I noticed he speaks more than what he knows.
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?? I remember we were offering on properties that weren't short sales or REO's but we were mentioning as a loan contingency a down payment assistance from the county which in its statues?said only to be used on those properties. He could have known that, right?
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? So, during the inspection, I noticed not only the walls on the kitchen peeling off (fresh paint, remember?) but I think?the inspectors, 2 of them, walked on the roof even though they put a disclaimer that they wouldn't risk their lives doing that and somehow walked on the carpets, leaving a trail of stains. Of course I made a video of that and the response from the seller agent was "no aesthetics/cosmetics" delivered in that property, something that threw me under the bus. Well I said, me a painter, easy job. But, I make sure my realtors knows the carpets need to be cleaned. He promises to let the other agent know they need to be cleaned.
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? So, January comes, in the middle of the month, Escrow has asked my wife to sign the paperwork, only waiting for the city to fund. It's a Wednesday, on Friday, I call our realtor and tell him to remind the seller's agent that the carpets are all messed up and need some cleaning. He promises to do so. Monday, right in the middle of the day I get the call from the realtor. My friend, he says, you own it, congratulations! Even though, I don't remember him saying that......Then, he says do me a favor, can you go to the house and pick up the keys, the code to open the box is xxxxxx. Then he tells me that being?our home from now on,?we needed to remember that some realtors still haven't gotten the idea of what "pending" means and they may be still showing the homes to others. So, thinking of any intentional damage by some delusional buyer, I go from our rental, 4-5 miles away to pick up the keys. I call my wife and she says she was called by him already. No surprise here, so, I keep the keys so we can go at 6:00 PM and take the famous "walk through" in the house with?our realtor. ?
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?? We show up at six, we wait, wait, wait, he shows up, his wife is in the front seat, she doesn't come down, she is kind of mad?even though she was all smiles when I used to see her at the office or at the flea market where I met them.
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? He doesn't say anything, I feel entitled to open the home, I am acting as the realtor you know. My wife walks in, then he does, he is 3 feet, in the middle of the landing place where the stairs are and next to the door going to the kitchen. Well, he says, how you like it? He doesn't move, he is there with his arms crossed over his chest. I say, let me see, and walk on the stairs, see the same spot I saw before and then the next and the next. We are talking about a quarter size coin stains, black, that bothered you if you saw them. Not a big deal, but a new carpet is a new carpet if you know what I mean.
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? So, he is still there, standing, tapping the floor with his shoe. He doesn't do any move showing us the will to symbolically walk through the home saying anything, I wouldn't care if it was the car salesman mantra. We knew what the house was, I think. So, he stays there, I go and right in front of him I asked him "what happened"? I go, I thought I called you to remind the seller that the carpet needed some cleaning? He makes this gesture of "what? They didn't do it"? So, after a few words of amicable tone, he promised to send his cleaning crew tomorrow to clean the stains.
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? Tuesday, I start to move things into the garage, I start to sand and prep the walls in the Kitchen, living room and the upstairs bathroom. The stains? Well, still there!
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? Same thing Wednesday, stains there! I called him and he, with this "cara dura" straight face tells me "sorry, my cleaning crew told me they can't clean brand new carpets".? Not a single promise, not a "I will pay you for the cost to clean it". We are still waiting for him to fulfill his promise. He has come twice to the house, once to see some issues, and second time for a big issue that's still is pending.
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? Last conversation we had is that they are willing to pay above $400K for this home, that's because I called him to find out how is the market. So, we didn't get a picture, an ornament, nothing as a token of appreciation nor a souvenir from him.
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? I opened this topic to remind you that's some times there's not that agent, realtor that they say it's going to stick?with you until the day you die. He will take care of you buying and selling, and in between he would come to cut the grass, feed the cat, and check for any problems at your home?when you're on vacation.
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? Of course, this is when you watch too many movies.
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?? Let's hear from you, shall we?
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?? Merry Christmas! no matter what your story or your experience!
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