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Here you go. You hit the nail on the head.Assuming a $150,000 house and a $500 legal fee, your legal costs are 0.33 percent of the cost of the house. Most buyers are paying more than that for the new flat screen television that will go in the family room. Next thing I hear is that a buyer doesn't need to pay for a home inspection either!
In the market where I live (Greater Boston), people are waiving inspections to make their offers more competitive, and few if any are allowing pre-inspection since houses are only on the market for 5-6 days.
This has been a really interesting thread to follow. A large number of posters seem very satisfied with the lawyers they've hired, all of whom agreed to flat fee the transaction for $500 or less from the jump. I legitimately had no idea that legal services market was out there.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
You mentioned Waukesha in your initial post-have you looked there? I’ve lived there for 30 years-love it. Close to everything. A lot of options including shopping, safety, schools, proximity to Milwaukee and relatively reasonable property taxes. I’d also check out new Berlin, butler, Germantown and Menominee falls
So do you just have a home inspector on call and he/she rides along with you while viewing the houses? I couldn't buy a house without a home inspection. Good thing I don't live in Boston.
Unfortunatly within my price range, I haven't found much in those areas. Waukesha has so far only had what I would call dumps that were overpriced and needed a lot of work. New berlin had a few, but none I loved very much. Butler has one that I may be thinking about, and Menominee Falls was a bit out of our price range =(
Real talk, highly recommend multiple bathrooms. Ideally one is “hidden” for crazy dumps while wifey is home
First house in Tosa had a toilet in the unfinished basement just out in the open, nothing else around it. Strangely liberating and somewhat terrifying at the same time.
Al Bundy would disagree, Fergusons are the best toilets!
Might be putting in an offer for my first house----in IL (limited options in Kenosha and big time seller's market, it seems like). When should I contact a real estate attorney? Just at the closing, assuming my offer is accepted?
Yeah, Foxconn just drove up the value of any home immensely in the RKW area.
I have a recommendation if you'd like. $500 flat fee. He's in Chicago but I'm sure he would work in Lake County too. The only time he is there in person is at closing, the rest is over the phone/email. I would get in touch as soon as you are under contract.
Thanks, I sent you a PM!
I think I sent you a PM back? But it isn't showing in my Sent Messages. Let me know if you didn't get it.
When we bought our Chicago condo in 2004, we decided to change the 3 toilets to the "comfort height" toilets with the elongated bowl. I did my research and Toto toilets consistently rated the highest.So I searched for them in Chicago ... and couldn't find any. Home Depot, Lowe's and the like didn't carry them, and nobody else had them in stock. I also couldn't find them online cheap enough to make it worth it to pay the high shipping costs. (This was before free shipping became widely available.)I finally located them at a plumbing distributor near the West Loop. The employee said they would hold them for me but went to pick them up the next day they were gone. I gave up. I was not going to pay 2x list price for black market toilets!I ended up buying Kohler products and we never had problems with them.And there's my strange-but-true toilet story!
We have three of them in our home in Chicago. Never clogs. Never. Best working toilets ever.Got them from a plumbing distributor in Buffalo Grove. Had plenty in stock. No games to be played there. They were fair with us..Ironically, our plumber who installed them just shook his head. "Gosh, I never imagined people would pay this much for a toilet," he said.Heck, I didn't think it was that expensive -- especially for something that works.
If you're paying less than $150 for a toilet, you're doing it wrong.