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the downside is people finding and offering on a different property i guess while i wait to get this listed. then i need to clean and prep and spend extra time all for the chance of an extra 10k or so. there is no guarantee someone will come around and offer full price again. of course there is a chance of more, a chance of less. with a full price offer on an amount higher than i thought i would list and with a 4% commission, i am satisfied.
If I'm the buyer, I send you a preemptive offer that expires in 24 hours. As the seller, you then have to decide do I take it or do I roll the dice. If I'm the buyer and you turn my preemptive offer down, and I'm the only bidder at the end of the day, I'm offering you under your asking price.
Yep. There's value in not having to list the house, clean it up, etc. Now see if you can accept the offer with as few or no contingencies (that's how things are done in the Bay Area, for better or worse).
all sides are valid. we asked these buyers to come up and they stuck at 699, so maybe that’s the number. also important is timing for us……closing date is not until june. another 10k won’t kill me, but would be nice. i am ok with my choice. this kind of goes counter to my religion. hopefully, the elders don’t find out.
the car left the garage........
I’ll take the kids and the under
no international school?
Might come down to costs... Even at 70% or even 80% covered by the UN, it's still a boatload of money.
welcome to geneva!
You’ll be ok. Our house was robbed in LA when I was a kid. It was REALLY violating. But we got over it. F’ers actually stole my piggy bank. I was also gassed and robbed on the train in Italy. They hit the whole train. Crazy experience.
That is sooooooo sad. I'm not telling you how to feel but try not to overreact out of pure emotion right now.
THATS AWESOME!
i appreciate the kind words…..a lot. i felt the house was pretty secure, we don’t have many windows, all have shutters and double glazed windows. i guess morons gonna moron. i am still gonna blink camera myself to death, i will also look into a decorative window bar system and probably an alarmed system with video. i want to know when a field mouse is pooping. something inside that trigger if the window/door magnets are uncontacted. lol. maybe a couple of signs that property is under video surveillance and likely an american flag that indicates i am armed with at least a handgun.
Congrats! I don’t think I’m the only person on this forum that’s been intrigued about your path & wondered whether I may eventually take a similar plunge. Keep on keepin’ on with updates because I truly am fascinated.
so, once we arrive in italy we have 8 days to apply for residency, which is a requirement. it is called a permesso di soggiorno. luckily, the law firm we are working with offered a package that included them handling this work for us. basically, the italian post office has what they call the kit. you get it, fill it out and provide 1-3 money postage stamps. bring it back to the post office and you get a receipt. the receipt is basically the residency permit until the local police station provides us with our cards, which takes 4-6 weeks. this is called temporary residency. we are not considered permanent until we have 5 continuous years of living there and meet the integration standards. so, we likely won’t worry about permanent now, since our visa can only be good for 3 years max. 1 year with 2 year renewals; however, italy did just pass the rules for their nomad visa. we will be shortly discussing with our attorney if we can convert or study visa to a nomad visa. since my wife is working, she qualifies. but that is down the line. it seems we have at least 3 years right now.
so our visa is a study visa, good for 1 year. within 8 days of arrival, we need to obtain a resident permit. then essentially, the permit "replaces" the visa with the same conditions. we can then renew the permit for 2 - 1 year periods if it continues to be for study purposes. IF we can convert to the permit from study to nomad, from what we have read, nomad has no time restrictions, but does need to be renewed. i think i had read it might be valid for 2 years, then you can renew for 2 years, then if we hit 5 years continuous, we can become permanent residents and likely not be required to renew. We will have a call with our attorney shortly to discuss our next steps, but conversion to nomad would be huge for many reason, most importantly that we won't have to pay for and attend school as mandatory.
One of the easier deterrents is planting nasty bushes around the house creating a natural boundary between the yard and the house. Holly bushes work were I'm at in SC but I'm sure there is an applicable bush for your area. Additionally you can go this route with window security bars. I linked that company as I just used them for a garage side door that has a window in it that has always made me nervous (provides easy access to the house with minimal effort). Quality stuff, company is out of Canada. Or you could really embrace old Europe and just install a moat. Always the best option but I'd check with the locals before you rent a backhoe.
Many thx. Moat may be an issue. I have a call or 2 in to some professional security installers and am likely to go that route. Door and window contacts and some video and motion. I hate to go this route and am pretty certain this is just a gypsy one off..........but climbing in thru a window while we may be sleeping is not something on my bingo card, so that will be eliminated. I am not too worried about my doors, since they actually are covered by Door Shutters that get bolted into the floor when locked. Really, the only way in is with a ladder thru a window. A good system will solve this issue.
Been doing that for a while. Feels good actually.
helluva question. i think we are setting up a P.O box near my SIL. we will still have a physical address in the states, but that address doesn’t have a mail box (beach condo). we never get mail there. we are thinking of maybe having a box out there for the beach place and then the real active one in NY near the SIL. for credit cards, bank cards. at least she can open and send me pictures of anything new, since everything is digital nowadays anyway.
I can't recommend an International School enough. They even have a data base. Best stuff ever.
You may want to jack the car up off the ground. This would be better for tires.
