Rosh Hashanah

Today is a high holiday of Judaism, the Jewish New Year. Similar to the Chinese New Year which follows a lunar calender, so the date is always different every single year. I made a honey cake, matzo ball soup and steak for dinner. Originally was going to buy something already cooked, after asking the chefs about the sauce that brisket is swimming in, realized Victor just can not eat any prepared food because that brisket was fine but the sauce was thicken with tons of flour. At the end of the day, I would still have to cook dinner.

Anyway, we interviewed another real estate agent today at the house. He came with his father which I felt surprised. I asked Victor to call them because I read this article about international buyers are purchasing property here in palm beach county, a whooping 32% home sales from last spring to this spring was closed with foreigner buyers. On the newspaper, this agent stated 25% of his closing deals involved foreign buyers. Well, he is in the house.

He likes the house very much, told me don't touch a thing and don't move a thing, I am being too sensitive about it, everything is beautifully decorated. He stated that we are very exceptional, most of the clients have to be reminded to change the light bulbs, clean up the kitchen, put things away....etc. So did our friends told us the same things, he said the house is already staged for sale, he would be very happy to start selling it tomorrow.

I guess Victor and I are very much Type A positive personality people, we like other people have enthusiasm, enjoy what they do and be good at it. We may end up choose this broker because he is enthusiastic, he belongs to a bigger network and able to cover a larger exposure, he also has a very good Internet coverage. I think I do not want to limit myself to a certain group of buyers who live inside this community looking to move up to a bigger house; I want to be exposed to the market; I want overseas buyers be able to view the house before they fly in for the weekend; I want to see the ad about my house on the paper, not just The Palm Beach Post, also The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. It's all about exposure.

And this guy seems could do better, tell you the truth we are not so sure but I guess we are willing to list it outside the box, which are the top 2 listing agents here at this community. I like one of the lady very much, she is very sincere and would love to show the house. But the networking of her company just might not match the guy we met today. We figure our listing price would be around 980,000. We have not confirm it yet, if we don't take this number, we might bring it up higher to 1.1 million range. I personally like the 980 number because when people search homes on the internet, always put up a budget to search from, 1 million is a pretty big water mark right there, I might lose some target client's click by listing it over 1 million, that's how I thought.