Patrick and Lisa still want our house
Today we got another form letter from Patrick & Lisa wanting to buy our house. It’s an identical letter to before, but their timing still isn’t right. Maybe they should wait until the dumpster is gone & we’ve demolished the entire first floor. Then give it a month or two until we’ve been living without a kitchen for awhile. Throw in the first cold fall day (if we haven’t finished installing the radiant floor by then) and maybe we’d consider an offer.
Just kidding. We won’t want to sell the house, but it does crack us up each time we get one of these letters. I’d be curious to actually talk to Patrick & Lisa and see if they’ve had any responses to their letters. Are they trying to buy houses and turn them around? Or are they just trying to find a house that they might be able to afford if they didn’t involve realtors in the buying and selling process. Has anyone out there sold their house to Patrick & Lisa? We’d love to hear more about these mystery people!
3 Comments
Grex·May 26, 2005
I was a *Patrick and Lisa* once. I had sold my house, moved my stuff in storage, and was renting an apartment. I couldn’t find anything I liked and was getting desperate and tired of renting with most of my belongings in storage. There was a house I had always loved that seemed vacant. I looked up the owners and made them an offer. A few months later I made them a better offer. They never did write or call and I almost made them a third offer but I found a house. My thought was that if they never said no, then maybe they were thinking about it. I figured all I had to do was sweeten the deal. Have you ever *said no* to Patrick and Lisa?
Trissa·May 27, 2005
We haven’t replied to them. Maybe we should send an e-amil to let them know we’re not planning on moving. The strange part is that is it a photocopied form letter made to look like it’s hand written.
kb·May 27, 2005
Actually, my future in-laws were a Patrick and Lisa too and got their dream house that way. They found the neighborhood they wanted to live in, picked out several of their favorite houses in the neighborhood, put their form letters on their doors and got a positive response from one of them. They kept telling me to do the same thing when I was looking for a bungalow, but just felt too funny about doing it…I ended up finding the perfect little 1921 California bungalow by just driving around my target neighborhood and seeing a new “for sale” sign being put up at a house. I wrote the ownvers a letter telling them of my intent to restore the house and out of all the offers, they gave it to me. (they got multiple over-bid offers too).