Houses are being sold in Hancock Park.
Two weeks ago, one of the houses I blogged about on Rimpau finally sold. I've never thought to look back and see what houses sell and what don't. I've only ever been interested in open houses for the obvious voyeurism, but hearing that this place sold was rather jarring. These houses aren't open for me to walk in and enjoy, the reason they're open is to get sold. Of course I always knew that, but now going to open houses to almost no benefit of the client (other than my blogging which I'm sure made no difference) kind of feels like...the real estate equivalent of illegal music downloading? Maybe? I need to think about how I feel about this a little more.
I'm really glad this place sold. It's a great home that I made a lot of jokes about (duh), my favorite being that they ripped the backyard from a contemporary christian pop album cover. But apparently that outrageous photography worked in their favor.
A couple months back one of the homeowners commented on the post. He seemed to take it rather well. I wanted to respond; I tried writing multiple comment drafts, but they were terrible and I was terrified anyway. "I'm so glad you're so comfortable with my jokes at your expense!" is not the right way to respond. I finally found the right way to respond: I'm so glad my blog didn't negatively affect the sale of your home! Congratulations!
I'm surprised you haven't heard back from more homeowners as you put the address in the post. Google, people. I've had a few embaressing run ins from my own blog so I can only imagine!
ReplyDeleteJust to come full circle - my husband and I are the new owners of this house. I stumbled across your blog post when I Googled the house's address shortly after we went into escrow. Not only did your post not negatively impact the sale, I would venture to say it had a positive effect. I can't tell you how much amusement it gave my husband and I to send a link to your blog when friends asked to see pictures of the house we were buying. We are happy to report that the "therapist's waiting room" has been converted into a proper bedroom for a little boy, although the living room is conspicuously absent a grandfather clock as we did not get that memo. You are right in that overall it is a wonderful house. We envision spending many years in it raising our two little boys and hope to enjoy many a comtemporary Christian pop album cover worthy sunset from the back yard in the years to come.
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