961 La Grange: Good Bye
It has been nearly 3 months since we lost our house at 961 La Grange to foreclosure. Today we learned that our house was in escrow, awaiting its new owner. Although we’ve moved on, it is still a little sad. I guess it is a little like receiving a death certificate for a loved on in the mail. You already know they are dead, but this news brings a new sense of finality. But that’s probably a good thing, as it gives us one less reason to dwell on the past so we can really focus on the future.
It is sad that our lender passed on a short sale offer a few months back for $486,000. The property had since been listed for sale for $469,500 by the lender; so everyone loses.
Before we had to leave, we still had a lot of unfinished work on our to-do list: fix the roof leak, fix the upstairs plumbing problem and mold, perform termite mitigation, fix kitchen floor supports, upgrade and repair A/C system, fix backyard drainage problems, and more. I hope the buyer was told of the known issues. Hopefully they got a good deal and can make the home beautiful again.
We drove by the old house recently and the lawn is completely dead. Now my old neighbors get to look at a dead yard every day. I wish our lender would have watered the lawn so that my neighbors didn’t have an eye-sore in the neighborhood. A well-maintained yard could get the lender a higher asking price on the property. If I’m in the neighborhood again I’ll snap a picture of how it looks now. The above picture was taken in February.
Onward and Upward.