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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if any of you who wrote letters and got the house were a different race from the sellers.

I like the idea of letters but wondering whether as a South East Asian, it would be in our best interest. Our agent has never suggested it and we haven't won any houses so far. [/quote]

I don't know the details of the sale, but the people who bought my (white bread) parents' house were South East Asian, first generation immigrants, and it meant a lot to my parents to hear how much they loved the house. But I don't know if they learned that through a letter or it was just mentioned at closing. My parents are pretty hard-nosed about finances, but they're also able to see that if one offer is only a few thousand less than the top offer, there isn't much difference, and if you would feel better going with the lower one, that's a reasonable course of action. [/quote]

I'm the one who got a house for 50k under asking a few years ago after writing the letter. The sellers were elderly and African-American; we are white. The wife had grown up in the house and then moved when she married, and the house had sat unlived-in since her parents died 20 years ago. She and her husband visited weekly and kept the house up until they finally decided to sell (all their kids had finished college and moved elsewhere.) I really think the letter helped. It made them see that we wanted to raise a family in the house, which probably mattered to the seller since she and her siblings had been raised there.

The house had been on the market for months, though, so maybe they were just ready to sell. The whole interaction with the sellers was so pleasant, though--I think the letter must have made a difference.[/quote]

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