We may have been saved by a friend of mine who wants to buy the place for investment purposes for more than the owner is selling it for. This friend, the real estate agent, and the owner are meeting here at 12:30 tomorrow to look at the place.
If it happens, this buys us time as I plot my next move. If not, at least I know others were given a chance to get it. I'm not sure why this makes me happy, but there's something so backroom and underhanded and possibly illegal about this deal as is - a house selling for $20,000 - 30,000 under its market value in the span of three days without being listed, a sale catalyzed by a possibly scam-artist lead inspector - that to expose some light on it in any way at all makes me feel like justice is being served at least a little. Really, anything to wipe the smugness off the real estate agent's face in knowing that she's screwing over the 80-year old owner of the house makes me happy. My sense of justice is feeling replenished.
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3 comments:
if all works out with super lesbian, it sounds like this at least buys you time to find a house of your own - to either buy the current house from your friend, or to look for a house without the looming pressure of a move-out date.
either way, i hope this all works out for you. being screwed over sucks - coming from a landlord's perspective. i hope you can get this all figured out before school starts. :)
Man this must be some house! It seems like everyone in Baltimore is after it. Hang in there. :)
heys epiph.
sorry to hear about your travails. i wonder where the house is. i live in guilford, near 33 and greenmount.
anyway, hope you and fool get to stay where you are. having more owner occupants is the best thing for a neighborhood. having the lead paint inspector come in and offer to buy the house like that is totally shady--it's probably also against the rules for him as a city employee to be using his job like that, to prospect for homes...
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