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Old 05-19-2010, 03:07 AM   #7
Wayne and Carolyn Mathews
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Dillon KOA
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Update, February 4, 2013: We finally sold our home in May of 2011, after it had been on the market for 15 months and after several hefty, painful price reductions. We took a terrible loss on the place, selling it far, far below its appraised and insured value. Home sales in and around the Dillon MT area had been flat for a year or two when we first listed our home; they still have not improved, so if we hadn't unloaded the place when we did, no doubt we would still be staring at the For Sale in our yard while continuing to lower the price month after month. Not looking back and playing the What If? game has been difficult, but we're glad we bit the bullet and went on with our lives.

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Would you please send your leftover lookers and potential buyers my way? We've had our home on the market since March; it's been shown only twice. In this part of Montana, real estate is still not moving. I have 3 friends in similar situations as ours--no lookers at all. Our realtor says IF we were in the $125,000 or lower price range, the house would have sold. However, anything much over that is just sitting . . . We've lowered the price twice and are now below the appraised value of the house and at the point where we will lose money on the sale, even if we received an asking-price offer.

Meanwhile, our Monty is firmly parked until the blasted house sells. We have, however, been selling off our things so that one day, when we are free again, we're ready to hit the road full time.


Carolyn
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