which is why seller/developers advertising that they are including a car in the deal etc. must be thinking buyers are stupid. the buyer would then be obligated to pay property taxes on that dumb little perk as long as they live in the house. much better to reduce the sale price–but agents and developers want to keep the sales stats artificially high.

Thanks for your comment. Although I appreciate your perspective, I wrote what my personal experience was selling the home. The sale is over. It’s closed, and I’m moving on to the next phase.

The point to this post was not to show how much money I made. It was to show that when you look at sales stats, they might not show the true picture. It’s something to keep in mind for those who are researching for themselves.

Write about the home seller’s psychology. Write about how sellers feel their equity is cash and the I-deserve-top-dollar mentality. Write about why from a seller’s perspective this “could have cost [you] thousands and thousands of dollars” rather than made you thousands of dollars less.

From what you’ve wrote, it sounds like you made good money, even if you would have done things differently and it “cost” you thousands, you still would have made money, just less of it.