u/Familiar_Eggplant_76

Zillow views/saves — A meaningful metric?

Does that tracker actually tell the buyer anything? I suppose it would really have to be in context of other homes in the same market?

(I'm 2 hours live on my home's listing with 245 views, 25 saves. But a bunch of those views are probably people I sent it to myself, just trying to light the fire.)

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 2 days ago

Should I lock down my socials before listing?

I'm a couple of weeks from listing my house in a small town in a rural community. My Facebook is private, but instragam, with plenty of geo-tags, isn't. The house is distinctive, and wouldn't be hard for anyone to find. There's nothing damning there, neither about me or the house. But maybe the less personal info a potential buyer sees/knows the better?

Should I change the IG setting to private before the listing goes live?

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 13 days ago

Should I lock down my socials before listing?

I'm a couple of weeks from listing my house in a small town in a rural community. My Facebook is private, but instragam, with plenty of geo-tags isn't. The house is distinctive, and wouldn't be hard for anyone to find me. There's nothing damning there, neither about me or the house. But maybe the less personal info a potential buyer sees/knows the better?

Should I change the IG setting to private before the listing goes live?

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 13 days ago

Hot tub- Fix or remove before listing?

I'm working on details before listing my house. Hot tub has been out of commission for a couple of years. A service call to only diagnose the problem and estimate repairs will be $350—actual repairs costing extra. Having it hauled away is $700.

A realtor friend, in another market/state, most buyers will either be ambivalent about inheriting it, or actually negative about it, and only a minority might see it as an asset.

I'm prepared to take it as a sunk cost and have it hauled. Is that the right call?

EDIT: Thanks all. Removal has been scheduled. I know it was right, but needed the nudge.

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 15 days ago

This morning I got a text from my LC brother that our NC mother was on a morphine drip. An hour later he called me, and just seeing the caller ID, I know what that meant.

She'd have turned 84 in a few weeks.

Nearly 20 years NC for me. I grieved the loss of that relationship, and what I wanted and needed from a mother, a long time ago. After a flash of sadness I feel mostly... indifferent. But I'd be a fool to not expect more emotions later.

Also, annoyed. For a couple of reasons. I'm already getting messages from cousins I haven't heard from in decades, who only knew the "fun aunt". And selfishly, it's a perfectly inconvenient time—I'm frantic trying to list my house for sale next week, before a huge move.

I doubt I'll go to any services. Most people there would be mourning a fun, carefree woman. No one else would have known the co-dependent, manipulative, neglectful, angry woman.

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 17 days ago

Packing Imperial measuring tools— Cups/Spoons/Tapes?

Cleaning out my American kitchen in anticipation of the move to Europe this summer got me thinking. Are you living in a metric-based country and have, or wish you had, imperial measurement tools?

Cups and spoons I could see value for—if using a recipe written for them, and they're just useful kitchen tools, even if not for specific measuring.

Measuring tapes in feet/inches maybe less so? Even though it's my default/comfortable unit, nothing there will be labeled with them, so maybe 'forcing' the switch to meters/cms makes sense. Does anyone find value in having ft/in tapes or sticks?

I'm a certified C1 in my second/destination language, but it's funny how numbers and math almost always default to the native language, and these things feel... math adjacent.

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 17 days ago

Mi novio y yo estamos hablando de casarnos. Traigo recursos fiscales bastante más importante que el tiene. Insista, con razón, que hagamos un contrato prenupcial.

No tenemos contactos por el sector, y no sé buscar consultas así. ¿Donde y como
lo buscarías? En Madrid.

Y… en mi país, ambos a novios necesitan abogados distintos por esto. Y en caso con recursos muy distintos, es normal que el con más paga - o reembolsa - el gasto. ¿Es así en España?

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u/Familiar_Eggplant_76 — 20 days ago