Posts Tagged ‘moving’
Case Study Part 1: Buying a Foreclosure
As someone who has fixed up a lot of properties throughout my career, I sometimes take for granted the real difficulty of it, thinking that it’s not such a big deal. Just don’t ask me to load songs onto an iPod or software onto my computer — that is as traumatic for me as things could possibly be!
Well, over the past year I realized that not everyone has had the good fortune of cleaning up really nasty properties and transforming them into vibrant, nice homes for a new owner/family. What really opened my eyes was the experience of working with the buyer of one of my investment properties.
Let’s call her Jan: a single woman in her early thirties who was going through a lot of life changes at the time we met. After selling her beautiful home to move on to a new life, a few things happened that drastically changed her plans. One major plan was to find another home to live in. She had temporarily moved in with her parents after these unfortunate incidents occurred, but we all know how difficult that would be after being on our own for a while.
