u/Americasycho

My home is set to be listed in ten days. Across a lot of sites, metrics, maps, etc it has median value between 345k - 360k. The realtor is asking 5%.

He pitched me to list at $349,900. After commission and closing (ballpark 20k), I can net $329k yet he said we can likely “hit higher.” I asked what he meant and he told me that a lot of times, people bid higher than the asking price but to me ( first time seller) this seems strange to me.

Do people really bid higher than listings? Is it really that common?

Long story short.....I have bad neighbors.

I do no harm to them, and never have, but their noisy, destructive, and obstructive behavior have my energy completely drained. Our houses are side by side, but he revs motorcycles in his driveway pointed at my home. I asked him to stop kindly and he refused and gave me "it's a free country..." line. He started shoveling the feces from his dogs right onto our property line where it makes a nice little row rather than throwing it away. The motorcycling continues and I asked him to stop pointing it at my house and he refused. The latest stunt is to now park his Ford 350 diesel truck across the street from my driveway to reduce the length of the street from which I can back out.

Yes, I've had the police out, but since we live in an unincorporated area of the county.....there is nothing they can do.

Is there anythign I can do?