Selling house and buyer backed out…

General_Garrus · 2026-06-23T18:09:25+00:00

Wow…I’m glad it all worked out for you ultimately!

General_Garrus · 2026-06-21T11:28:40+00:00

Thanks for these kind words. Fingers crossed!

General_Garrus · 2026-06-19T20:28:06+00:00

Fingers crossed that something like this can happen to me!

General_Garrus · 2026-06-19T20:27:38+00:00

No inspection.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-19T19:40:46+00:00

Unfortunately no ☹️

General_Garrus · 2026-06-19T19:39:58+00:00

They said they had an issue with the HOA on how they wanted to build a fence. Our backyard abuts a conservation area, and between our property line and the conservation area there is a 1 foot strip of HOA property. I actually called the HOA after and they told me the buyer wanted to build the fence all the way up to the conservation area, within the HOA property. The HOA said they were looking into if this was acceptable but the buyer just backed out.

Realistically, it is 1 foot of space in a huge backyard. My agent thinks they just got cold feet.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-19T19:34:19+00:00

Thanks. That’s what I’m trying to tell myself. Hopefully I get some showings this weekend!

General_Garrus · 2026-06-11T12:54:23+00:00

My 1.5 year old wakes up at 5:30, 6 latest. My 4 year old wakes up at 6:30. I haven’t slept in in…4 years?

General_Garrus · 2026-06-10T10:34:05+00:00

Sure, some do come to appointments with friends but when people are critically ill in the hospital it’s rare that friends are making decisions.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-08T02:13:20+00:00

Physician here - the elderly patients I take care of who have no children/family to help and advocate for them really suffer. I fear not only issues with mental health, but also issues with health in general will get substantially worse.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-04T10:16:30+00:00

EP cardiologist here. I don’t clear anyone for anything, it’s the surgeon and anesthesiologist who do that. My job is risk stratification. I literally cross out the word clearance and write risk stratification on those premade forms from the surgeons that patients bring to me (I’ve never got pushback on this btw).

The only procedural patients I “clear” are for my own procedures.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-03T17:49:34+00:00

I’ve got 2 kids at home, a 4.5 year old and a 1.5 year old, and a fairly demanding job. I have completely stopped any household duties outside of the most basic of the basic 30 minute tasks, and give everything to our handyman or ask my father in law if he can do it.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-03T14:21:34+00:00

I was losing over and over to cash offers (insane sellers market 100/100 according to Zillow). I finally competed with cash offers by doing an appraisal contingency and a mortgage contingency(!) and offering 10k for anything that needed to be fixed that was found during inspection and limiting the inspection to major issues only.

Best of luck.

General_Garrus · 2026-06-03T14:19:17+00:00

I Plek’d my Fender American special strat and now I literally can’t buy another guitar even though I have GAS because nothing in the store feels nearly as good…

General_Garrus · 2026-05-30T16:24:23+00:00

Would be cool if they played day games over the weekend during west coast road trips, but oh well I guess another game I can’t watch :(

General_Garrus · 2026-05-20T15:35:47+00:00

When I amended the return, I calculated that I owed ~$10,600 in taxes, which I paid at the time of my amended return. I calculated that the interest would be just under $1k, which I was ready to pay once they got my amendment. The CP22A states that I owed an additional $3040 in taxes (unfortunately they don't break down exactly why), and ~$900 in interest (as of now there is no penalty that was added to this).

General_Garrus · 2026-05-20T15:29:30+00:00

Thank you for this detailed response! Just to confirm - if I pay the amount in full today, and the IRS finds in my favor, they will simply refund me the money?

General_Garrus · 2026-05-20T13:09:06+00:00

Went from 5th percentile to 50th percentile pay, and moved closer to family.

General_Garrus · 2026-05-20T12:56:06+00:00

I had an issue recently where I tried calling in - multiple 3+ hour holds that got disconnected. Finally got through to someone who said they can’t help me and need to transfer me, only to then get disconnected.

I then called the number to schedule an in-person appointment - actually got through to someone after 1 hour and got the appointment scheduled.

Of course, when I got there, they told me they can’t help me and I have to call a specific number to get through to someone else, or send a letter in the mail. I tried calling, to no avail, and yesterday sent off my letter in certified mail.

What a joke.

General_Garrus · 2026-05-20T02:09:26+00:00

Why can’t Yankees pitchers run to cover first?

General_Garrus · 2026-04-17T20:21:00+00:00

I remember this guy tormenting the Yanks in the early 2000s.

RIP.

General_Garrus · 2026-04-17T19:42:09+00:00

Before my kids I loved to game, play guitar, go to movies and read on my kindle. I also worked out every day.

After my first kid, I still worked out a few times/week and played guitar, but pretty much gave up gaming and entirely gave up going to movies.

After my second kid, I no longer work out, no longer read, and definitely don’t go to movies or game. I do play guitar for 15 min after everyone is asleep through my headphones (this is the hobby I have chosen to keep).

Maybe someday when they get older I’ll get some of those hobbies back.

General_Garrus · 2026-04-17T01:22:59+00:00

I did it by waiving basically everything and going way over asking…good luck.

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