{"id":2549,"date":"2020-03-03T01:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/03\/03\/buy-your-house\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T01:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T01:11:03","slug":"buy-your-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/03\/03\/buy-your-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy your house?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I read in the Tribune that the Minneapolis area housing market<\/a> is the fourth hottest in the country. I can believe it. <\/strong>For the past several months we have been constantly bombarded by offers to purchase our home. The requests pour in by mail, phone, and text. No need to paint. No need to repair. We will give you cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have no interest in selling and we keep telling them that, but the offers keep coming. I received a phone call and a text today. I think they may have given up on Cindy. I wonder just what about us in some data base must encourage this interest. I can\u2019t imagine some poor lackey sits around a real estate office day after day going through the phone book and calling people. What are the odds anyone would be interested?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It must have something to do with our age What other data could they have about us. Ready to head for the nursing home and need money for a room? We can help. It must be something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cash deal would offer a big chunk of change, but then what. In a sellers market, you don\u2019t want to become a buyer. Surely, they don\u2019t think we don\u2019t understand that. We do have a lake home and I suppose we could live there, but the desolation would get to us eventually. Maybe I should actually act interested once and just see if they would explain what it is about us that has generated this interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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