http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2006/01/27/giving-incentives-away-with-the-house/ A premiere personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:42:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2006/01/27/giving-incentives-away-with-the-house/#comment-1683 Will Kirby Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:19:26 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=819#comment-1683 These are great for potential buyers, but come on - can't we just sell a house as it is anymore? I hope that it doesn't start to mirror being a car salesman! These are great for potential buyers, but come on – can’t we just sell a house as it is anymore? I hope that it doesn’t start to mirror being a car salesman!

]]> http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/2006/01/27/giving-incentives-away-with-the-house/#comment-1682 Michael Kimsal Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:20:43 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=819#comment-1682 We just sold a house and left the wall-mounted 42" plasma with it. It was a bit of a deal sweetener, but it was also much less of a hassle. Unmount it, pack it, move across states and hope it doesn't break, repatch the drywall, repaint the wall, etc. It also wasn't a top of the line model either, so it's not like it was a $3000 TV (I think it was $1600 IIRC). Probably would have fetched $1000 on ebay (maybe). Take out a couple hundred for the trouble of unmounting it, etc., and I viewed it as not that much of a financial incentive to take it vs. the difference it made when showing the house. We just sold a house and left the wall-mounted 42″ plasma with it. It was a bit of a deal sweetener, but it was also much less of a hassle. Unmount it, pack it, move across states and hope it doesn’t break, repatch the drywall, repaint the wall, etc. It also wasn’t a top of the line model either, so it’s not like it was a $3000 TV (I think it was $1600 IIRC). Probably would have fetched $1000 on ebay (maybe). Take out a couple hundred for the trouble of unmounting it, etc., and I viewed it as not that much of a financial incentive to take it vs. the difference it made when showing the house.

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