{"id":983,"date":"2007-02-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2007-02-02T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T15:07:19","slug":"a-line-in-the-sand-gaius-popillius-laenas-and-getting-the-real-estate-transaction-closed-against-all-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/983\/a-line-in-the-sand-gaius-popillius-laenas-and-getting-the-real-estate-transaction-closed-against-all-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"A line in the sand: Gaius Popillius Laenas and getting the real estate transaction closed against all opposition . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Someday soon I’ll write a full-blown Realty Reality post about this transaction. I’ve written about it several times already, but my client is quite right in telling me, “This should be Chapter 14 in your book!”<\/p>\n

What am I talking about? It’s a home that finally closed this week — after much back and forth, feint and parry, sturm und drang,<\/i> threat and counter-threat — all in a day’s work.<\/p>\n

I first wrote about this in an Ask the Broker post about a divorcing seller who was reluctant to move<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I talked about my own buyer briefly in a post about the realities of what we suppose to be tech-infused real estate brokerage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, I wrote what I thought was the last chapter in the story for the Arizona Republic<\/i><\/a> (permanent link<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Sellers who aren’t motivated can create headaches<\/b><\/p>\n

When Realtors speak of unmotivated sellers, what they normally mean are sellers who are unwilling to do what’s necessary to make their home appealing to buyers — price to the market, attend to repairs or keep the home show-ready.<\/p>\n

I have a home in escrow right now where the seller doesn’t seem to be motivated to do anything.<\/p>\n

I represent the buyer. When first we saw the house, it was graced by a great deal of debris. Not trash, necessarily, but not treasure, either, and none of it put away. When we were back in the home for inspections, nothing had changed.<\/p>\n

And, to my knowledge, nothing has changed since then.<\/p>\n

I have been driving by the home every other day or so, looking for external evidence of changes. Nothing discernible.<\/p>\n

We were there on Friday for the final walk-through and we discovered one important change: The key in the listing agent’s lockbox no longer works. The seller had changed the locks.<\/p>\n

What does this mean? The home is about to close and, to all evidence, the seller seems unmotivated to move out. There is every reason to suppose that every bit of debris we saw in the house a month ago is still there.<\/p>\n

What happens next? We close the transaction, withholding funds in escrow to pay to have the seller’s personal Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someday soon I’ll write a full-blown Realty Reality post about this transaction. I’ve written about it several times already, but my client is quite right in telling me, “This should be Chapter 14 in your book!” What am I talking about? It’s a home that finally closed this week — after much back and forth, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1143,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1143\/the-carnival-of-real-estate-investing\/","url_meta":{"origin":983,"position":0},"title":"The Carnival of Real Estate Investing…","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"...is up at RE Agent in Connecticut. 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