A real estate agent tears into the Baltimore Sun for missing the real story: home sellers have almost no control over their sales. They can't control market conditions, buyer timing, which lenders approve loans, bank-assigned appraisers, inspectors, or survey results that might reveal boundary problems.
What are they smoking at the Baltimore Sun? Because they're high on their own supply. That's crazy, y'all. The one thing, the one thing that's constant about real estate, one thing, doesn't matter where you are, no price point, geography doesn't matter. You have no control. You know why? Because you're trying to sell and you can't control the market conditions. You can't control when your buyer's going to come through the door. You can't control the situation that buyer's in. Are they under a time gun for relocation? Are they shopping for mom and they're just doing the preliminary look? They've got financing questions. And then if the buyer's obtaining financing, well, you can't control the lender that they select. You can't control if they've picked somebody local who understands your house, your neighborhood, your zip code, or if they've picked some internet lender who's in a call center somewhere halfway across the country who has zero idea about your area. And then you can't control the appraiser that that bank sends out. And we should be talking about the appraisal situation because it's about to get a whole lot hairier. You can't control what inspector they use, what the inspector finds. You can't control whether or not they do a survey. And if you bought a house that had a survey that was missing and the fence is encroaching and you're having to deal with all this, I mean, are you kidding me?
