People over Profit, Always.
Julia, LuLu & I are sitting at the airport, waiting for our flight to Utah, where, hopefully, we'll find some snow.
Anyway, remember the house where the lady got mad at me?
The one where she signed another contract with someone else?
That’s the one on Raccoon Run.
We’re now in full-swing on the renovation.
Wallpaper is gone.
Popcorn ceiling scraped.
Bathrooms gutted.
And the kitchen cabinet doors are off, getting ready for what should be a pretty cool two-tone retro-mod paint job.
But the whole conflict — the reason the seller got mad — was the crawlspace.
In our contract, we agreed on a price, but we had a contingency to inspect the crawl.
From my first look, I could tell it needed some work.
What I didn’t know was whether it needed a little work or a lot of work.
So we brought in our crawlspace crew.
Turns out it was the second one.
Moisture.
Mold.
Fungal growth.
Fallen insulation.
And a vapor barrier that had basically given up on life.
So I shared the quote with the seller and asked if she’d consider splitting the cost with me since it turned out to be a bigger issue than expected.
That’s when she got mad.
Stopped returning my calls.
Stopped returning my texts.
And signed another contract with a different investor.
When she finally texted back, she said the other investor told her the crawlspace was no big deal.
Nothing to worry about.
I disagreed.
And while I would have loved a price reduction, I wasn’t backing out of the deal.
So we closed.
And now we’re fixing it.
New insulation.
New vapor barrier.
Moisture addressed.
Mold gone.
Total crawlspace makeover.
Because here’s the reality:
There are investors out there who will say “no big deal” about a problem.
Some of them genuinely don’t know better.
Others just plan to sell the problem to the next buyer.
That’s not how we do it.
For us, it’s people over profit.
Every time.
And there isn’t enough extra profit in the world to justify leaving a problem like that for the next family to discover.