In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department, house sales are softening in the region and real estate agents are displaying ingenuity in getting those potential buyers through the door. Here’s a house listed in Delta B.C. that has just had a $700,000 price reduction and in addition has “a muscle car and furniture included in the price”.
If you are not that keen on the 2010 Mustang Shelby and the last owner’s couch, you can still come to the open house to “enter to win” the $2,200 gift basket. It might be worth showing up for the open house just to see what a $2,200 gift basket looks like.
Bought in 2016 for $1.39M when the market was frothy, and a list of $2.185M after a “reno”, a $700K “reduction”, still leaves almost $100K on the table – to help pay for said reno and commission, for a house on the US border hinterland of Delta – walk score: 13.
…13? …13!
It was a stupid purchase and an unpleasant reno.
Buy this aesthetically challenged property and join the rest of the Delta commuterats with hours to waste on the road – fuming and stressing – fearing/dreading the trip. By personal mobility cage, or transit, you’re looking at wasting 2-5 hours of your life if you want to go to Vancouver. On the road – time, money, pollution. Campaigning for a new 8 lane bridge, or honking huge tunnel. Cycling? Don’t ask. We’re in hopped-up Lance Armstrong territory here.
Yes, you and your 10-year-old ‘Stang – the fishtailing rear wheel drive murder weapon time capsule – in your yard with the hood up and your ass in the air like the rest of the motor hicks.
This is a 1980 house near the border.
Because this property is assessed at $1.227M, and was listed at $2.185M, it would behoove the prospective lunatic purchaser to see if permits were pulled for this “exquisitely strategically designed top of the line construction and plumbing and electrical …” excrescence.
If a house designer had anything to do with this cacophony, they should be locked up in the 3 door garage, with the Mustang running. Lend them Epstein’s belt.
No way a designer had anything to do with this.
And the kitchen … omg. Unworkable. Unergonomic. An affront to kitchen designers and cooks. Triple A awful.
Arnie, how do you know so much detail about this house?
I looked at the pictures in the listing and the sales history.
Some people do crosswords. I get a kick out of analyzing properties. I’m good with detached – strata – not so much. There are too many unknowns – known and unknown unknowns.
“Buy one burden and get another burden free!”.