Rogers Cove Farmhouse
Nobody can buy a home with almost no money down. Self-employed people cannot get a 5% loan on a home with no qualifying paperwork to submit, can they? Yet the seller of this quaint 1930’s farmhouse in the mountains of Western North Carolina decided to sell us his family home, despite other offers from people who were more qualified than we were (by far). Why did he do it?
We don’t know for sure, but what we do know is that we took a photo of his beloved home and put it on the front of a greeting card we sent to him telling him how much we loved the house and how we would restore it and take care of it long into the future. We also know that the next day the seller walked into our Realtor’s office with the greeting card in his hand, and asked him to have us put our meager offer in writing, because he was going to accept it.
Our Realtor, bemused, called us and told us to come down to his office to sign the paperwork. He also wanted to know how we had made that card, because he had a 1.4 million dollar home listed and he wanted to put THAT home on the front of a greeting card to thank the owner for listing it with him.
Funny old world, isn’t it? Sending out greeting cards and gifts for a living. Could life get any better? I submit that it could not.
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