Help me justify to the owner a land swap
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Anonymous
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Well...i guess that is one way to gentrify the neighborhood.
In a few more years you can move down the street to the next house. And so on and so forth. In a couple of decades you will have a dream house of oversized identical mcmansions. Why didn't I think of this? |
Anonymous
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Why would an elderly couple with a paid off house with retirement equity and inheritance value want to participate in such a lopsided deal, which either drains their retirement savings or puts them hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for a house and living arrangement that is just not prctical for their age?
Unless what you are offering them is a premium unit in an assisted living facility you are REALLY taking advantage of them. |
Anonymous
Because OP is an egotistical asshole. Reminds me if those "charity" scammers who scam on the elderly. I wish I knew OP Kb real life so I could tell everyone what a lowlife and despicable person she is. |
Anonymous
I preferred the irredeemable fuckwit gif personally, but egotistical asshole works too. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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Like the gif pp, put it out there for all to see! 
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Anonymous
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NP and I am highly amused by this thread also.
A clarification- I don't believe the OP indicated that his/her neighbors are elderly. My first impression was that maybe it is a young family, actually, based on the OP's opening post which said something about "to stay as long as they'd like they know they have to rebuild." If it were elderly neighbors, rebuild for what? To make it more elderly-friendly?? That's why I'm thinking the neighbors might be a young family. Maybe they inherited the property and for whatever reason, OP thinks they want the end result of a rebuild without the hassle? Total speculation, of course! |
Anonymous
Absolutely disgusting if that is what the Op is doing. Some people are lower than scum. Op I HOPE that is not what you are doing! |
Anonymous
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7:26 here again. Meant to also say, if my speculation is accurate, I think your conversation with the neighbors would be something like:
Howdy neighbor. You have mentioned that you want to rebuild but hate the idea of the hassle it entails. Any interest in buying our house? We could swap the land at an equal exchange (assuming it is equal!!), and it'd just be the house you actually buy. We like the challenge of rebuilding, and we'd probably tweak the design a bit from our current home. What do you think? Come on over and inspect our home in detail- beyond the aesthetics you've mentioned, we feel the build is real quality. Want to ponder and discuss later? |
Anonymous
PP here - you could be right. But I picked up the impression that they were older from the fact that they live in a "crumbling" 60 year old house that they don't want to work on. No one buys a "crumbling" house without expecting to perform some renovations, or who wants to suddenly resell it to their next door neighbor (otherwise, why would they have bought it in the first place?) - so I figured the neighbors are people whose home has aged with them. If they were a young family or a relatively new buyer of the "crumbling" home, why wouldn't they have bought new if they didn't like old? |
Anonymous
| Is it a 4000sf addition on a 1950's foundation? If so, was all of the work done with permits/inspections in place? |
Anonymous
| A 4000 sf house with three car garage is not everyone's dream. I'd keep my smaller house, thank you very much. |
Anonymous
| People who eye, and talk elderly neighbors out of, their hard earned property, are despicable in every way. |
Anonymous
+1 (cue poster with lame "article" about how everyone wants 3 car garages in Raleigh) |
Anonymous
+1 |