Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: to realtor or not to realtor?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

I've bought many houses (I'm afraid to stop and count how many) and one
cohousing unit. The one cohousing unit was by far the most bewildering and
irritating process.

One reason was that we had a very incompetent mortgage department at the
bank where most of us got our mortgages (long story about why that bank but
it involved DC government bonds and the developer's financing).

But essentially it was because there was no real estate person or mortgage
broker handling all the paperwork. I can't tell you how many pieces of paper
the bank lost and how many forms they couldn't explain clearly. I don¹t know
if you need more than a lawyer to sell property but to buy and get a
mortgage, I wouldn't do it again without an agent or broker.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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