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taxi wrote: How much for just the use of the pool?

KCPowercat wrote: My only question is why use realtors based in Leawood??  Are they really going to help you out given their normal market?
Best of luck.

KCPowercat wrote: Great place.  Love that building.  My only question is why use realtors based in Leawood??  Are they really going to help you out given their normal market?

Best of luck.

loftguy wrote: kuslamb, this is not directed specifically to you, but hopefully to illuminate this topic for others.  Most of the public has the perception that a realtor is a realtor is a realtor.  In the old days of multiple purchase offers, we could get away with this thinking.

Pulling in a suburban realtor for a very urban dwelling is like having a proctologist do brain surgery.  They know the basics, but the specifics are pretty critical.

I understand family ties, friends and all, or friends of friends, or someone who helped with another sale/purchase, but it's just not their area of expertice and especially in this market expertice is hyper important.

It's the realtors, in cases like this, who are to be criticized.  They take on listings that they can not properly service, due to lack of needed experience  and proximity and typically enter the agreement just in hope that a sale will emerge.  What savvy realtors do in a case like this is refer their friend to the expert for the property type/location and they are paid a referral fee (10 to 25% typically of the selllers commission, not shabby).

No, I'm not a residential realtor, though I did it years ago.  It's a pet peeve for me, because it's peoples lives and money that are at stake and I have watched repeatedly as this scenario has played itself out.

Additionally, we saw a lot of people exactly the same as my wife and I (5 years ago) and they had simply no chance of securing the financing to purchase.

kuslamb wrote: We have decided to leave KC and move back home.  As such, with the market like it is, we have had difficulty selling our condo.  

Highlander wrote: A couple of years down the road, and I might have been very interested. We loved that building when we toured it a few years ago.   Best of luck.  If you don't mind saying, where is home?

kuslamb wrote: Thanks. Oklahoma.

As an update, it is leased. First time ever leasing anything, but people who regularly lease appear to regularly begin looking for a new place approx 10 days before their lease is up.

This is crazy to me, but I have not leased aside from 1 year for grad school in Lawrence. It makes it very difficult to prep the lease documents, do a background check, review references, etc...

Oh, and people on craigslist are strange, and college kids are crazier than ever, with multiple offers from groups 4 college students wanting to lease it.

loftguy wrote:

Roanoker wrote:

loftguy wrote:

And...?

loftguy wrote:

Roanoker wrote:

loftguy wrote:

And...?

Heck if I know, Roanoker. I just saw this post.

Bet it was something great, though...........

LyndeyT wrote:Hopefully you didn't lease to four college guys? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I was in the same situation with our past home. We couldn't sell it, so we ended up renting it. The renters were always late on their payments. I think the worst part was the fact that the house was 2.5 hours away from our current home.

kuslamb wrote:It is leased to a nice married couple with 2 college aged children. Other than a bit of spilled Chardonnay, I think things should be OK...