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Originally Posted by eribrav
I'm always puzzled by statements like this.
How do you know it is worth $25,000 more? Do you have an offer to buy now at that higher price?
Wouldn't the seller have sold it for that higher price if there was an offer on the table?
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In reality, yes, we would have to have an offer. However, when we checked recent sales on that street, there was nothing under $400k, which was way over what we paid. What I didn't have in my post was that the previous owners trashed the place once they were put into foreclosure and because it was in such poor shape the investor bought it literally for about 2 cents on the dollar. He intended to fix it up and sell it ASAP, and made about a $50k profit.
So it's pretty reasonable to expect it to sell at appraisal price. If the house had been bank owned, they probably would have asked us to come up to that price. Combine that with the fact that the government is about to spend untold sums on the DC area, and we're also less prone to the vagaries of the recession.
The house sold in 4 days for the asking price, so I imagine it's not a stretch to believe it could have gotten more.