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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the responses you've gotten here: 70% would be irritated or offended, 30% would be unoffended but trash the letter.  Even if you don't understand why it would bother people, you should recognize it won't help you in your house hunt.  Post something in the neighborhood listserves (try to get someone who lives there to post it for you), but recognize that you're only this desperate because what you want in this neighborhood seems unlikely to materialize.  You're hoping for a miracle.[/quote]

Wrong analysis. How many people are in her position, or have been? My friend wrote a letter to an elderly couple describing her family, why she loved the house, what she would do, etc. She got the house.

I live in a "tear-down" according to the builders who write me almost weekly. If I received a letter from an individual who would add on and renovate - and keep the beautiful trees - I would definitely listen to that offer rather than the developers who are changing the character of my much loved neighborhood.[/quote]

Writing to an elderly couple might be the only scenario under which I see such a letter working in a hot neighborhood, esprecially if it's a teardown neighborhood where people might be looking to have their house preserved. Please don't send them to young families who only recently bought in hot family-friendly neighborhoods and are unlikely to move, and also are likely to know that they will almost certainly be better off putting their house on the open market and drawing a bidding war. That's really like 'hovering over the table', while hoping to somehow being able to afford the neighborhood by circumventing the competition and realtor fees.[/quote]

I'm the OP. I've said repeatedly that this is not a hot neighborhood and I'm only sending letters to people who have been there a long time (right now I'm looking at 1995 and earlier). I also never said I wanted special pricing or a non-competitive environment. I just want notice before you put your dream hous on the market so that I can hold out, rather than buying a fixer upper, and getting stuck with an addition and kitchen gut-job.[/quote]

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