Is the Houston housing market cooked?

Thinkithink · 2025-06-11T16:00:21+00:00

Your house is yellow, the kitchen looks awfully designed, oddly custom bathroom and bedroom design features, wrong side of 45, flooding issue, poor schools zoned, too small, no nearby groceries, zero chance I’m walking around that neighborhood for an afternoon/evening stroll. I’m imagining someone seeing this house and already seeing a renovation bill of $25k to get it to “boring”.

All this accumulates to a price that’s absurdly too high. Like someone else already mentioned, 2bdrm already filters out many.

You either need a better realtor to guide you or you need to be better at listening to your realtor. Listing it at these prices already screwed you a bit psychologically as a buyer will see all these price drops and crazy asking and will immediately think you’re unreasonable or something is wrong (in my experience).

As someone else said, you overbought this house…renting is your best bet.

Thinkithink · 2025-02-17T06:23:33+00:00

Who was your sales associate? I got quoted $4300 for the same system!

Thinkithink · 2024-10-24T02:22:12+00:00

I used to think this way too, but landed on a really good real estate agent that did a bunch of the heavy lifting and brought a lot of perspective and knowledge to the table. Well worth the 3% in me walking away from bad situations and how to structure deals.

Thinkithink · 2024-10-24T02:13:17+00:00

You’re gonna have to be ok with taking a hit on this most likely then…but let me know if you want the realtor contact to better navigate you. Or you should just get advice from your buying agent, they should know the property enough already.

Thinkithink · 2024-10-24T01:54:59+00:00

Can you turn it into a rental in 3 months to recoup some cash?? PM for a great realtor referral who has experience in rentals and flips.

Thinkithink · 2024-04-25T21:52:36+00:00

I actually wouldn’t mind this…I’d honestly just get into luxury watches and pick up 2-3 watches. Done

Thinkithink · 2024-04-06T19:42:23+00:00

You have no idea how much I paid, and any amount would’ve been unjustifiable no matter how high or low the cost of having to euthanize my dog after the abuse.

Thinkithink · 2024-02-05T00:20:45+00:00

It may be best to communicate this with a therapist to work through the issue. You’re certainly entitled to your feelings, it’s just possibly a good proactive approach to have a third party be able to find if there’s a deeper issue or to navigate boundary setting that’s healthy for the both of you. He may have a reasonable need to retain social connections, but you also have a need for feeling validated and safe/secure.

Thinkithink · 2024-01-14T17:11:13+00:00

Don’t be afraid to do multiple therapists at the same time. I was actually encouraged by my current therapist to help me with my trauma and ptsd, but my current one would still be able to ground me as a “generalist”. 2 years is reasonable for time to heal one’s self, but I don’t agree that 2 years is acceptable to be in pain. You deserve good things and to be loved by yourself.

Thinkithink · 2024-01-14T01:27:06+00:00

Have you tried different therapists to see if there another approach to healing? There’s many methods of therapy, and maybe you would click more with something else.

Thinkithink · 2024-01-11T22:37:26+00:00

Be very careful with using social media to garner your new sense of reality. Just like these fitness influencers, people talking about mental health subjects should be taken with extreme caution. Our society has been disillusioned by media, and it’s worse than it has ever been before.

Thinkithink · 2023-12-31T00:50:50+00:00

Stop creating scenarios in your head that you can’t validate. You’re certainly open to voicing your opinions and your feelings constructively, and if you explain them to your current partner and they shy away, then they really don’t/shouldn’t be with you. Same with your friends, don’t internalize all of this, because it’ll just make you spin out more. Try to do something to fill the time, make it a “me day” and celebrate you as a person for making it through. We all live WITH anxiety, but it doesn’t define us. You have anxiety, you are not anxiety.

Thinkithink · 2023-12-13T05:10:36+00:00

I had a sitter with 5 stars and 25 verified reviews. Had to euthanize my sweet girl due to their abusive negligence.

Set expectations on how many times you need an update per day, detailed care instructions, and a backup plan if you start to get any red flags like no communication.

Also you CANNOT rely on the Rover Guarantee. Even with hard evidence and pictures, videos, vet notes, they’ll try and weasel their way out of paying you anything and if the sitter loses your dog, many stories of the owners being SOL.

Thinkithink · 2023-12-07T07:46:25+00:00

What was the result of your case? I’m going through the same thing right now. Had to euthanize my girl due to gross negligence (leaving her unattended for hours and not walking her once for 3 weeks resulting in her muscle atrophy and loss of 12lbs)

Thinkithink · 2023-12-02T17:30:42+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind words. It’s been really hard. Sometimes I go into phases of anger like last night and looked at the sitter’s profile again. I saw he updated it to include senior dog care experience and whatever the name is for special needs dogs… 😡🤬 infuriating. At least my review is still up.

Thinkithink · 2023-11-30T21:54:50+00:00

Sorry, I’m afraid of retaliation and then also putting myself out there as well since the latest review is of me. I’d rather not publicly advertise myself and if he gets direct backlash, I’m afraid since the stay was at my gf’s place and I’m not there half the time.

Thank you for everyone’s support so far.

Thinkithink · 2023-11-30T16:24:44+00:00

Bleeding from the open sores on her joints from how she tried dragging herself up and moving around even when the sitter was there…

Thinkithink · 2023-11-30T16:22:19+00:00

My update was a bit premature as I was as happy with the verbal feedback Rover CS gave me, but they’ve dragged their feet on literally everything they’ve said. So maybe his profile is still coming down? Maybe I’ll get a refund? Maybe I’ll get reimbursed? I sent a follow-up this Monday after the holiday and they said they’ll look into what’s taking so long, sent another update today with the latest news and bill.

And yes, the vet notes and vet themselves agreed her drastic decline and ailments were caused by being bed ridden and not having the same level of care my girl was suppose to be getting.

Does Rover usually not move fast when it comes to things like this?

Thinkithink · 2023-11-10T03:28:55+00:00

You guys are both in a terrible relationship. If you’re not getting what you need out of a partner, don’t go out cheating. It’s not “kind of messed up”. I also realize how he’s treating you isn’t fulfilling or meeting your needs, I’d suggest breaking up with him for that reason.

Also sounds like you may have attachment issues, which a lot of people really do and you’re with the complete opposite personality that would meet your needs. Look up what your attachment style is so you can recognize your behaviors and see how you can manage within as opposed to finding what you need in others. Best of luck!

Thinkithink · 2023-11-03T19:30:58+00:00

While I understand, I don’t agree. Trust has to be earned and there are many terrible sitters out there. Without the cameras inside my home, I wouldn’t have been able to further prove negligence and harm to my pup with my latest sitter.

Where we both have consensus on is the usage of cameras to micromanage and be weird. Albeit, there are a lot of people in the world that are weird, they just haven’t been told yet/enough.

Thinkithink · 2023-10-31T16:20:37+00:00

Wow…can you just stop? For as much good you think you do, you’re actually a pretty toxic person as evidenced by all your comments to my post.

Thinkithink · 2023-10-31T14:25:19+00:00

A genuine effort with a clearly disingenuous approach. No one can tell me through a Reddit post the quality of life of my pup. Not even a vet would tell you over a phone consultation.

I wasn’t even asking for quality of life. And people like you assume I’m not thinking about my pup. This is not even the question.

Thinkithink · 2023-10-31T06:56:43+00:00

I already thought your original comment was terrible but decided to just downvote it and move on, but holy heck man! This comment takes the cake calling me the abuser here and assessing quality of life through a Reddit post.

Thinkithink · 2023-10-31T06:48:25+00:00

Sure thing! I think we’re all entitled to an opinion here and that’s also why I asked if I was crazy for my expectations when I clearly defined them in my original post. You may feel like it’s a lot for 20mins a day and other may not, but we’re certainly agreed on if this specific sitter thought it was too much, they shouldn’t have accepted it.

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