To moms and grandmas everywhere, Happy Mother’s Day!
Speaking of kids, Kayla will be starting her weekly-video series on Wednesday!
This is my mom and I in the middle during her 80th birthday tour of the old haunts around Oakland. On the left are my two brothers and sister, and on the right is Uncle Tom and Sally.
We are standing in front of my grandparents’ house, which my parents inhabited once my grandma passed. The current owners were gracious enough to allow us in for a tour eight years after they purchased!
This was one of the houses sold by my sister during her brief stint as a realtor. When her and my mother insisted that the list price be over $2 million, I had her send me the comps. I told her it would sell for $1,500,000, which resulted in catcalls and boos, and the expected “what do you know about this market!”.
You can see how it turned out here:
http://www.trulia.com/homes/California/Piedmont/sold/158009-501-Scenic-Ave-Piedmont-CA-94611
Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
Ouch, why did they sell at the bottom of the market? Wouldn’t have been the worst thing to price over $2M, not sell and be sitting on a house now worth close to 2.5
*Grin* Wow, Jim, you were $10,000 off on the price your mom’s house sold for in Piedmont. I guess you proved you’re human! 🙂
I was able to go back to my childhood home in 1998 with my late husband and son. The owners were so kind. I thought it would be a 10-minute visit, but it lasted two hours! We still communicate today. The wife got in touch with my sister and I by email and asked if our dad designed the house. After owning it for 20+ years, they’re finally going to do some remodeling…
2006?