Susan Says - Comments on Ann Arbor Real Estate, and Life

An appraiser alerted me to this website and I was amused at the concept.  I uploaded my business card photo and made an elfin' fool of myself!  Quite silly and probably not something you want to share with your more serious friends or clients.  I sent my elfin' self to my college daughter.  I hop...

Miracles are happening in Ann Arbor, that's for sure...  For starters, I will have closed three December deals by Wednesday, had a verbal offer on another of my listed properties today and also turned down another offer - TURNED DOWN AN OFFER that was close to asking price since the sellers felt ...

Today is our only son's eighteenth birthday.  How did we get here so quickly?  I remember the day we sent him off to kindergarten, having completed the crying the night before, wondering if the kids would like him despite his speech impediment.  We wondered if that meant he wasn't intelligent, wo...

Ever been in a situation where you knew bad things could happen?  Tonight my buyer and I were right there.  The setup was already questionable - viewing a foreclosure property in the dark with the electricity off, or so the lisitng office had told me.I had a prior appointment across town and my s...

Confused by that title?  Can't blame you.  The Wizard of Oz was definitely not a Christmas video but the sentiment is the same in almost every well-known Christmas video out there.  Let's recap, in order of my preference, just for fun:1)  "A Child's Christmas in Wales", by Dylan Thomas.  This is ...

I have been stuggling with a huge dilemma this year in that we cannot afford to pay our daughter's college tuition - believe me we can't - despite the fact that we had told her we could and never doubted we could.  My income was meant to cover that.  Michigan real estate is not currently making m...

Boy, I would love to write a great blog tonight.  Like the one I wrote last night that disappeared into thin air when I was playing with the images of turkey, chili, soup, and "abundance of bowls" that I was trying to insert into the blog.  I have a lot to learn....Tonight I am going to keep it r...

I blogged earlier about Ann Arbor real estate, the low, the high, and the most high.  I also wished Michgan good luck in the OSU game - is it bad luck to say good luck in football, sort of like saying, "break a leg" to the theater group?  Maybe it was me who jinxed them.   I hope not.Anyway, two ...

Catchy title, eh?  As a relative newbie, I am still perusing the groups and checking out the ones that seem interesting.  Today I came across War Stories and was reminded of, you guessed it, naked sellers. I was working with a buyer on a tight budget and a short deadline.  Being new to the area a...

Working in Ann Arbor as a realtor has its ups and downs these days but the highs definitely outweigh the lows.  Witness today's events.1) LOW:  A "sure thing" deal fell completely apart and though I am confident the buyer will buy, it won't be this property that he loves and now it won't be until...