Tom's House Buying Tip
Apr. 18th, 2006 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomIf you don't like the house, walk around saying, "Hmm... naaahh, this sucks."
If you DO like the house, walk around saying, "Hmm... naaahh, this sucks."
If you want to buy it and walk around saying, "OH GOD I LOVE THIS PLACE!" then they'll never negotiate on the price.
True story:
My parents were selling a house once and they heard that the next person viewing the place was moving to New Jersey from England to be AT&T's new VP of negotiations. They figured he'd be a real shrewd buyer. However, instead he and his wife walked around blathering on about how much they loved the place, how it would be perfect for the kind of entertaining they wanted to do, etc. When it came time to discuss price, they raised it and never backed down. The AT&T executive paid top dollar.
Maybe that's more of a statement of the lack of business sense at AT&T, which is now essentially out of business (the company that bought them kept the name, but don't let that fool you. There is no AT&T any more.) Or, maybe they were paying the guy so much that the house price didn't matter, or AT&T was really paying for the house so he didn't care about the price. Either way, its a sad statement about AT&T.
When C and I shop for a house, we'll have code words to mean that we like something. Otherwise it's going to be all "Oh god, this is _terrible_" every time we turn the corner.
If you DO like the house, walk around saying, "Hmm... naaahh, this sucks."
If you want to buy it and walk around saying, "OH GOD I LOVE THIS PLACE!" then they'll never negotiate on the price.
True story:
My parents were selling a house once and they heard that the next person viewing the place was moving to New Jersey from England to be AT&T's new VP of negotiations. They figured he'd be a real shrewd buyer. However, instead he and his wife walked around blathering on about how much they loved the place, how it would be perfect for the kind of entertaining they wanted to do, etc. When it came time to discuss price, they raised it and never backed down. The AT&T executive paid top dollar.
Maybe that's more of a statement of the lack of business sense at AT&T, which is now essentially out of business (the company that bought them kept the name, but don't let that fool you. There is no AT&T any more.) Or, maybe they were paying the guy so much that the house price didn't matter, or AT&T was really paying for the house so he didn't care about the price. Either way, its a sad statement about AT&T.
When C and I shop for a house, we'll have code words to mean that we like something. Otherwise it's going to be all "Oh god, this is _terrible_" every time we turn the corner.
