Had a wonderful time with the buyers over breakfast yesterday. Everything is moving forward, as planned, even after the dreaded home inspections and contractor visits. Before they got to the house an electrician stopped by with a copy of the home inspection in hand, "The couple wanted me to look at the things in the report". "Well, c'mon in". What he was looking at was the service into the house and the boxes, which are a combination of push and screw in type.
I walked around with the guy and showed him the things in the report. After he was done I asked about the difficulty of replacing the panels, and the cost, "It's really not a big deal, we do it all the time". Here I've been thinking for the last 8 years that any type of improvement that doesn't involving patching, taping, or covering, would be impossible. You can, with the right people, and money, redo things from the bottom up, and correctly.
We came up with some stuff for the contract, full price, finish around the house what you want or can, leave what you like, close by July 1st, please leave the lawnmower. There you go. So after they left we got on the horn with our South Carolina realtor and told her we'd like to move on the house that I talked about on the blog yesterday, you know the one near the fishing. It would have to include a buyers home sale contingency but they're used to that down there. A few hours later we got a text back, "Unavailable, under contract a few days ago".
So it's snooze you lose down there. There are people all over the country doing the same thing we are. Downsizing and relocating and trying to buy a home on the computer. We have another house in mind, it was our #1 pick, but was a few dollars more than we wanted to spend. It still is within range of good wade fishing, in fact, it's closer.
As a diversion from Zillow I went and did some research on golf carts. Boy, if you don't know then you don't know. A ton of different manufacturers and a ton of dealers down there. From what I've read and seen on videos Club Car is one of the top brands, and there's a dealer just down the road from the new ranch.
I think that's kind of what we're looking for. A 4 Forward model where everyone faces forward. Lifted and street legal with some of the bells and whistles. Of course, I'll be wanting it in white, it'll match the Suburban. Out the door they run about $18,000. While I have always been the used Facebook Marketplace guy I might actually allow myself to buy something new for once in my life.
Shit's going to be going down real quick. I lose a week with the Vineyard trip, IDGAF I'm going, and a closing before July 1st. Mix in four days of work per week, and the need to get down to open up Cape May, and needless to say it's go time. No rest the weary, or the South Carolina bound.