What were the chances?

Here is one for the anything can happen in Real Estate book. We have a home listed, receive an offer and we are waiting for our sellers to stop by on Friday to present the offer. From the prior phone conversation it sounded likely, that these sellers would be accepting this offer. If nothing else, it was more than likely, a modest counter offer could be the out come; seems like a simple deal.

Things did not turn out that simple and they really weren't that normal either. You see, the seller's change of heart was not because of a short sale, not because of a foreclosure and not even a because of a nasty divorce preventing this sale from going through to a potential closing. So want was the Reason?

Thursday night, apparently they won the lotto! I got a call letting us know that now they would not likely be accepting the offer. They said they would need some additional time to think things over and figure out what exactly to do about the place. Since they won $70,000 cash in the Badger pick 5 game. It was certain that they would have to pay even more taxes if at this time they sold their second home, so it might be best to wait. Of course we could always do a counter offer and change closing day to January 1st 2010.

So what were the chances, they were actually about 120 million to 1. It is great to the one who won...

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Mary Strang is the Broker-owner of RE/MAX Hill Country Realty located in Viroqua, WI. Home to Organic farming, a small rural city population of about 4000 and a great place to live! Copyright © 2009 by Mary Strang. All rights reserved... " What were the chances?" the blog post was written by Mary Strang is believed accurate but may not be guaranteed.