I got another offer on the house this weekend. Since my house is now listed at half the original asking price and despite the fact that Little Miss Snippy Pants told me that I would probably never get another one, I'm not that surprised. What I am surprised at, however, are some of the things that she has said since the offer.For example, yesterday I told her what the initiation fee is for my subdivision so that she could let the buyer, who is unrepresented, know. She tried to tell me that I'm responsible for paying it. Excuse me. Does she not understand what an initiation fee is? Am I the first home that she has ever sold? An initiation fee is a one-time, upfront fee that a buyer pays at closing that makes that person an official member of the homeowners' association. If I was supposed to pay it--that is, if the fee was somehow related to a member leaving the association--it would be called a completion fee, not an initiation fee. That's exactly what I told her, too. I also offered to show her the paperwork from when I bought the house that shows that I paid the fee, not the builder. She declined the offer and claimed that she wouldn't put the fee on my HUD-1. Five bucks says that she does it anyway.
While I was on the phone with her--yes, miracle of miracles, she called instead of emailed--I told her for the hundredth time that I had paid last year's taxes and homeowners' dues in full. One minute later she asked me again if I had paid them. That's not an exaggeration. Literally, it was a minute later so once I again I said that I had. My answer, however, wasn't good enough for her. She asked me the question at least another four times during the course of the conversation. Eventually, I gave up and just emailed her the receipts. Another five bucks says that she will still put last year's amount on the new HUD-1, right next to the initiation fee that I refuse to pay.
Little Miss Snippy Pants also didn't realize that there was a crucial page that neither she nor the buyer had signed, which leads me to believe that she never looked at the pages after he handed them back. Isn't that the first thing that you're supposed to do after someone returns a stack of legal documents to you--check to make sure that all the pages are intact and that all signatures are in place? Likewise, she didn't know what the term "tax fee" referred to on another page, even though she supposedly typed the phrase into the document. She had to ask, and then she still couldn't tell me why I was responsible for paying it or how much it would be.
So this all leads me to the question that I asked in the title of this post. Do you think that she is stupid, that she has never sold a house before, or that she just has some form of amnesia that causes her to forget everything that happened five minutes earlier? I'm open to suggestions.
