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Northwest Glendale Real Estate Hotsheet

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Wow!  Look at all the activity!  I guess the entire neighborhood read my last blog post and said, “She’s right!  Let’s get off the dime and list our house today!”.  My mother was right.  The pen (or in this case, the electron) is a mighty tool - LOL!

First off we have 721 Glenwood.  I think this is the house right next to the auditorium, or, at least, it is very close.  Tough location, that.  But, it has a pool and 3 bedrooms and a guest house, so I guess it is possible.  The agent says the bedrooms are a very good size.  Good sized compared to what?

1144 Allen is a duplex, 2 beds each unit.

1652 Bel Aire is that house on the corner that has been “for sale by owner” for the past several weeks.

1553 Ridgeway is an English style home with an unpermitted bedroom, 1/2 bath and office.

1362 Ruberta is another house I told you all would sell quickly.  The buyer is very lucky!

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Kenneth Rd. is running into some problems.  The buyer is asking for things the sellers do think they should have to give.  While this is a classic situation at anytime, it is exponentially so during a transition market.

In either a buyer’s or a seller’s market the discussion is often resolved by sheer market forces.  The stronger party gets their way,  a sale if the sellers are in power or the house if the buyers are.

In a transition market, or in certain individual cases, there is no clear cut power holder.   The key to working though this basic disagreement is to stay out of the judgment of “right” versus “wrong”. This is an argument that can have no happy ending, for in most cases both parties have a degree of legitimacy to their position.  Rather, one should focus on a dollar figure and ask, “how much money can I give/get in order to move forward with the deal?”.  When you take away the emotionally charged element of what the other party “deserves”, you stand a much higher chance of reaching a fair and happy compromise.

I am carefully working my way through just this situation on Kenneth Rd.   I know, that in the end, all parties will be satisfied.  Or they will part ways.  Did you say you wanted another chance to buy Kenneth Rd.?  Call me ;-)