Return-Path: <Gr8Jibe@aol.com-DeleteThis> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id AAA20438 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:12:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Gr8Jibe@aol.com-DeleteThis Received: from msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.59]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id AAA19023 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-r13.mx.aol.com (imo-r13.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.67]) by msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A972DA23 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 01:12:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: from Gr8Jibe@aol.com-DeleteThis by imo-r13.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.15.) id v.91.fb1bb7 (3928) for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 03:12:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <91.fb1bb7.2701a66a@aol.com-DeleteThis> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 03:12:42 EDT Subject: Dropping in on my Wave To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 110
Has the sense of community among windsurfers changed? Hear my story about a
house on Sherman Island and you be the judge.
Long interested in buying a house near friends on Sherman Island, I learned
through a mutual friend that a nonwindsurfing couple wanted to sell their
house, on a short street on Sherman Island. It had not been listed for a
year. There was no one looking at the house.
After visiting them and researching how we could alter the house to our
needs, we agreed one evening by telephone to everything they asked for. They
had not wanted to list the house but agreed that it would be wise to have a
real estate agent draw up the paperwork for us.
I had consulted a friend who is a real estate agent. Following all of his
advice, the seller and I agreed we would split the cost of an appraisal, and
we would hire a real estate agent with local knowledge to draw up a contract
for both of us. We agreed that the seller would call a real estate agent to
handle the transaction for both of us.
The next evening I called the seller and got quite a shock. He'd called the
real estate agent he knew that morning as we had agreed. When she came over,
she brought a windsurfing couple who were friends of hers. They offered the
seller the same asking price, which he accepted, and together they signed a
contract that very evening. Apparently, he interrupted his wife entertaining
dinner guests long enough to get a signature without, according to her
account later, her really knowing they were selling the house.
Distraught to hear that the house had been sold an hour before without so
much as a phone call, I offered more money on the spot, and the advice to
consider whether the real estate agent had represented either of us fairly.
I hoped that the offer would be rescinded as a couple of weeks passed.
Although I learned the windsurfer-buyers' name, I didn't know how to contact
them. I would like to think that they really don't know the real estate
agent was contacted to handle our transaction.
Perhaps something will still change, but sale of the house is set to close
this Friday. It is very hard for me to sail at Sherman right now and enjoy
it the way I did before. I feel like someone dropped in on my wave.
Has our community changed? Are we different from the loud sports crowds who
don't wait for the fickle wind?
Bill
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