Do you get unsolicited offers to buy your home?

[lurkyloo]

We got a handwritten solicitation to sell a few months back.  I was wondering who we knew in Xxx, MD and creeped out that it was from a realtor.  I don’t get as annoyed by the mass solicitations, for some reason.

We also got a home insurance solicitation recently that had a pic of the house which was creepy.

The thing that really annoys me is the constant stream of people ringing the bell to try to sell us contracting services, usually interrupting my workday.  I ordered a no soliciting sign and got yet another the day after I put it up. I pointed at the sign and told him we didn’t hire people who couldn’t read    There is now a post it note below the no soliciting sign encouraging people to move along (our driveway is broken so that’s made things worse, but we already have a contractor and a plan to wait till the landscaping is done).

As finnime notes it’s frequently convenient to have an out of state area code.  I ignore 95% of calls from CA.  I do get a LOT of texts for someone named Ronald who apparently owns a house on Wyandotte st.  I block the numbers and occasionally swear at them first.  Cold texters are jerks.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

The thing that really annoys me is the constant stream of people ringing the bell to try to sell us contracting services, usually interrupting my workday. I ordered a no soliciting sign and got yet another the day after I put it up. I pointed at the sign and told him we didn’t hire people who couldn’t read

I tell them we rent then watch them back away hissing like vampires and I'm holding a cross.

[Bonny]

Feb 22, 2024 11:46:00 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

The thing that really annoys me is the constant stream of people ringing the bell to try to sell us contracting services, usually interrupting my workday. I ordered a no soliciting sign and got yet another the day after I put it up. I pointed at the sign and told him we didn’t hire people who couldn’t read

I tell them we rent then watch them back away hissing like vampires and I'm holding a cross.

Lol, I live on a really steep hill which means we probably get one solicitor per year. Houses are also on about 1/2 acre so way too much work for a return on investment. 

[lurkyloo]

Feb 23, 2024 10:10:41 GMT -5 Bonny said:

Feb 22, 2024 11:46:00 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

The thing that really annoys me is the constant stream of people ringing the bell to try to sell us contracting services, usually interrupting my workday. I ordered a no soliciting sign and got yet another the day after I put it up. I pointed at the sign and told him we didn’t hire people who couldn’t read

I tell them we rent then watch them back away hissing like vampires and I'm holding a cross.

Lol, I live on a really steep hill which means we probably get one solicitor per year. Houses are also on about 1/2 acre so way too much work for a return on investment. 

We’re on just over an acre; the average size in our development is more like 0.75.  It works against us for trick or treater traffic but apparently we are a fat juicy target for solicitors    Our front door is actually a pain to get to too, long curved driveway, then additional brick walkway with a bonus overgrown bush that semi blocks it when weighed down with snow. I was pondering the value of having a little go away sign out by the broken part of the driveway at the road but decided not to save solicitors any time 

[TheOtherMe]

I put my phone on Do Not Disturb for 3 hours a day and try to totally unplug for an hour.  Only calls or texts from two people will get through during that time.

The rest of the time, the phone only rings if it is someone in my contact list.  Hardly any of the calls that don't ring leave a message.  

I like watching the phone ring and not answering.  

[garion2003]

I get a lot of mailed offers to buy the house (generally a few a month). My mother (who used to own the house) still gets phone calls, she just replies "I don't own the house" and they hang up. Luckily they don't think to ask who does own it!

[nidena]

I get postcards and phone calls at least once a week.  It's been just under four years since I bought the house so I'm really not surprised.  My area is cooling off though so I imagine they'll die down soon.  

[Deleted]

This has never happened to us in any house we have owned.  The closest experiences were a townhouse we owned 20+ years ago would get the occasional post card from an agent with a client looking in the area and our current house (2021) had an agent going door to door,  because her client had lost a bid for a house in the neighborhood. 

[greenthumb59]

DH got a call today - someone asking if we are interested in selling our home this year!  He hung up on them. Made me think of this thread!

We have gotten the postcard in the mail with the Google Earth pic of our house.  We've gotten letters, cards, etc. over the years.  We just ignore them.  I mean we could sell, but we can't afford anything in our town!  Where would we go?

[resolution]

I received a letter in the mail today with a cash offer for my rental. It was for about 80% of the zillow value, which was higher than I would have expected from an investor. The last time I researched it, the groups were mostly trying to buy investment homes at about 60% of the normal price.

[nittanycheme]

I get texts and postcards about buying my house on a regular basis.  I really enjoy the postcards that are in a font that makes it look like it is handwritten.  Usually it also includes a bit about it not mattering what shape your house is in.  Considering the amount of $$ we just spent to put in a brand new patio, and redid the driveway, no thank you!  My parents also get texts and postcards on the regular; but they are in a very popular neighborhood.  A lot of houses there sell before they are even formally listed.  They ignore them also (mostly because they are only going out of that house feet-first from what I can tell).

[resolution]

My mother-in-law recently received a letter from someone that made it sound like there was some kind of problem with her home.  My MIL and FIL have been living there for just a few years. The letter had a signature line on it and said she just had to sign there and they would give her $28,000 and take over the property. It is a nice house with 20 acres that is worth more than 10 times the price they offered. She was so concerned about it that she went to the county recorders office to make sure that no one was able to just take her property.

[Tennesseer]

Received a text message this morning about selling my home:



"Hey, it's Spencer with Memphis Buyers, i own alot rentals in the area, would you sell (my home address)? Text cease to remove"

[Peace77]

I get texts often and calls or cards occasionally.  Once I was joking around and told them I would sell for 2 million dollars.   They wanted to know how I came up with that figure.  
Our house isn’t worth much, it’s the trouble of moving and finding another place.

[haapai]

Mar 25, 2024 8:40:34 GMT -5 Peace77 said:

I get texts often and calls or cards occasionally.  Once I was joking around and told them I would sell for 2 million dollars.   They wanted to know how I came up with that figure.  
Our house isn’t worth much, it’s the trouble of moving and finding another place.

For me, it wouldn't be about the trouble of moving and finding another place.  It would be about the increase in outlays! 

I built a spreadsheet yesterday to quantify how badly I would be hurt if I sold this place (for what the tax assessor says that it is worth) and put all of the proceeds of the sale except moving expenses toward the buyer's costs and down payment on another house that cost exactly as much as the one that I had sold that had exactly the same millage.

I'd lose about 12% of the sale price of the house by selling it, moving, and buying another at the same price as the old one sold for and my property taxes would go up by 50%.  (I live in a state that has a cap on how fast property taxes can increase and I am currently paying about two thirds of what I would be paying if the cap re-set.) 

Using the mortgage rates that my credit union published yesterday, my new piti would be 44% higher than the one that I am paying now if I went with another 30-year mortgage and 67% higher if I chose a 15-year mortgage.  (I'm in year 14 of a thirty-year mortgage now.) 

ETA:  Not everyone's math is going to look as dreadful as mine.  A lot of you might question the 7% selling costs, 2.5% moving costs, and 2.5% buying costs that I used but I'd argue that those numbers are pretty close to what I'd encounter.  The house is worth less than $130k, so the moving and buying costs can get pretty high as a percentage of the value of house. 

[TheOtherMe]

Every time I think about moving, I don't want to pack it all up and move it, so that's as far as I get with it.

[Peace77]

Mar 26, 2024 13:55:52 GMT -5 haapai said:

Mar 25, 2024 8:40:34 GMT -5 Peace77 said:

I get texts often and calls or cards occasionally.  Once I was joking around and told them I would sell for 2 million dollars.   They wanted to know how I came up with that figure.  
Our house isn’t worth much, it’s the trouble of moving and finding another place.

For me, it wouldn't be about the trouble of moving and finding another place.  It would be about the increase in outlays! 

I built a spreadsheet yesterday to quantify how badly I would be hurt if I sold this place (for what the tax assessor says that it is worth) and put all of the proceeds of the sale except moving expenses toward the buyer's costs and down payment on another house that cost exactly as much as the one that I had sold that had exactly the same millage.

I'd lose about 12% of the sale price of the house by selling it, moving, and buying another at the same price as the old one sold for and my property taxes would go up by 50%.  (I live in a state that has a cap on how fast property taxes can increase and I am currently paying about two thirds of what I would be paying if the cap re-set.) 

Using the mortgage rates that my credit union published yesterday, my new piti would be 44% higher than the one that I am paying now if I went with another 30-year mortgage and 67% higher if I chose a 15-year mortgage.  (I'm in year 14 of a thirty-year mortgage now.) 

ETA:  Not everyone's math is going to look as dreadful as mine.  A lot of you might question the 7% selling costs, 2.5% moving costs, and 2.5% buying costs that I used but I'd argue that those numbers are pretty close to what I'd encounter.  The house is worth less than $130k, so the moving and buying costs can get pretty high as a percentage of the value of house. 

That would be part of the problem of finding a new place.  It would cost about triple to rent another place.

[cyanne]

It looks like I can join the club. I received an unsolicited purchase offer for a shared parcel that is adjacent to our house offering $179,500 for the 1.5 acres. All we have to do is sign and send it back. Never going to happen. My husband tore it up into itty, bitty pieces and circular filed it.