Today...
...we accepted an offer to buy our apartment. It happened right in the wood section of Bauhaus, with everyone wearing jeans and a lot of randomly arranged dots of paint. Not very ceremonious, but odd enough for my taste.
A big load off my shoulders, I can tell you that. Having two apartments and two house loans at the same time is... frigging scary, even though it's apparently one of the things that adults do for fun every few years.
Our place was sold in four days, so I now owe Outi a dinner - I claimed it would take at least four to six weeks to sell it; but she was confident that we would get it sold sooner.
Always bet on the worse option. I lost, but for the price of one dinner I get to sleep a lot better. Had I won - well, at least I would've gotten the dinner.
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"Always bet on the worse option. I lost, but for the price of one dinner I get to sleep a lot better. Had I won - well, at least I would've gotten the dinner."That's called "insurance". :-)
- M
--AnonymousCoward, 15-Jan-2006
I sold my old apt in 5 days, that was in Harjutori, Kallio (~30 squares). They didn't even put it in public ads, so it got sold solely within the Kiinteistömaailma company "intranet". It is a trendy area for the twentysomethings to live in nowdays.
I saw some graphs about the prices and speeds that apartments have been selling in Kallio and the average was below 2 weeks (which was based on oldish information, over 6 months old and so). All small apartments (between lets say 20 to 40 square meters) seem to sell really fast, as long as the pricetag is reasonable. The professionals I talked about selling it beforehand all said the same thing: Set the price to what you would part with the apartment for sure. Trying to get the highest possible price is not in anyones best interest.
Congrats.
--Shrike, 15-Jan-2006