House 4 Sale (no joke) Framingham

[JimN]

Arthur Street, Framingham, contemporary colonial, built in Summer 2002, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2000 sq ft, hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, unfinished basement (great for fishroom), one car garage, driveway, deck, gas fireplace, central a/c, forced hot air, whole house humidifier, central vac, Brinks alarm, 200 amp service. Minutes from Framingham and West Natick commuter rails, Natick mall, Route 9 and Mass Pike. Closing date of June 30 or before. Pm or e-mail for price.

This is the picture of the house next to mine from the builder (houses are identical except that mine has a zero clearance fireplace instead of the chimney stack). Sorry, I don't have a picture of my house up yet: http://www.ziprealty.com/images_mls/MLSPIN/30/59/63/30596367_250.jpg

[Tstone]

So Jim How much?? :)

[JimN]

I have a realtor putting together comparables, but my (clueless) guess it that it will end up somewhere in the neighborhood of $425k to $435k? I dunno. I haven't really kept track of the housing market in this area for a while. What do think Marvin? You've seen the house and the area. Maybe I should have you auction it for me!

[Tstone]

Let your Realtor do the comps but I think your in the ball park.

Its a nice house in great condition and a nice family neighborhood.

[ducker]

Are you selling it through a Realtor or is it a FSBO?

[JimN]

FSBO for now, but it will quickly turn to realtor listing since I need to sell this house quickly. My sister-in-law is a realtor so she is doing the comps for me. I'll split the typical 5% broker fees with the buyer if I can avoid using a realtor.

[Scuba_Dave]

Jim, put a sign up out front ASAP. We sold both our houses ourselves. My wife's condo never made it very far. 1st person to look at it bought it.
Saved about $20k in realtor fees :eek:

[ducker]

Thanks Jim. I'll be in touch if I hear anything on my end.

-Mike

[Bidadari]

A friend of a friend of mine is looking for a house in Framingham area.
I'm not sure what price range that he's looking for, but I'll let him know about your house.

[nickoz]

Ygpm

[Armando]

sounds like the house is reef ready!

[mascaret]

How much land is the house on?

[JimN]

How much land is the house on?

Lot size is 8,775 sq ft, but I would say a little less than half of that is the front yard which is on an unusable slope.

[JimN]

Here are some pictures of the house as it was being built. I'll try to get some recent pictures up this week.

This picture does not show the dark brown shutters that were added:
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086928-M.jpg

Picture of the livingroom with gas fireplace:
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086918-M.jpg

A different angle shot of the livingroom:
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086923-M.jpgp

Picture of the kitchen under contruction:
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086920-M.jpg

This picture is a little hard to describe, but it's a shot of the two-story open foyer from the second floor landing:
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086921-M.jpg

Picture of the dining room. The shot was taken from the study which you'll see in the next picture:
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086922-M.jpg

Picture of the dining room and the study. The unfinished wood panels in this picture were painted white. This study was where I had my leather recliner facing my 75G reef. I spent ALOT of time in there! LOL
http://nguyen.smugmug.com/photos/4086925-M.jpg

[JimN]

Okay, I got the comps from the realtor. I ended up using GMAC Carlson. I didn't trust my sister-in-law, heheh :). If I list with Carlson, it will be for $429k with 5% broker fees. I made an error in the previous post where I said I would take 5% off of the comps. I meant to split the broker fees between me and the buyer. So FSBO for $418k. If you want the stainless steel GE fridge and Kemore Elite washer/dryer (both less than two years old) I can include it in the price of the house for another $2k to $3k so that you can finance it with the mortgage. This price is good until the end of the week. I'll be listing with the realtor next week. I really need to close on this house quickly.

[JimN]

House is sold. *sniff* *sniff* I am officially homeless and reefless. :(

[wrassefan]

Jim, did you sell it yourself or did it go thru the realtor?? Good luck dude.

[Scuba_Dave]

Congrats on the sale. That was pretty quick. Sorry to see you go Jim

[JimN]

I gave the realtor that originally sold me the house one weekend to sell it. After that I was going to list it myself. Honestly I never thought she could do it at the price she set it at, but damn if I didn't get pretty much a full price offer within eight hours of putting it on the market. This housing market is scary and waaay overpriced. But then again buildable lots are disappearing quickly so maybe the buyer will have the last laugh when I try to purchase an equivalent house when I come back from Japan in two years.

[joefitz]

Congrats on the sale, and good luck in your future endeavors...