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	<title>Comments on: Should You Pay More For THIS House?</title>
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		<title>By: Polly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Polly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s all true, and Ardell&#039;s advice to us was accurate.  And--based on what I&#039;ve seen come on the market since then--we&#039;d be kicking ourselves if we&#039;d pushed our luck and lost out.  She was right, of course.

I think the most common example of this that we saw when looking was a fully finished basement and/or MIL.  We saw lots of these listings: &quot;Newly finished lower level with full MIL/second kitchen!!!&quot;

We didn&#039;t need a huge kids&#039; playroom, we didn&#039;t want to rent out part of our home, and we certainly didn&#039;t want our respective mothers-in-law coming to live with us... a laundry room, some extra storage space, and room for a workbench is all we wanted from a basement - and so it was all we were willing to pay for.  We weren&#039;t willing to pay sellers who saw it as fully finished and useable space (even when that&#039;s exactly what it was, and to the right buyer, it would become a &quot;unique commodity&quot; worth playing hardball over), because we never would have used it that way ourselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s all true, and Ardell&#8217;s advice to us was accurate.  And&#8211;based on what I&#8217;ve seen come on the market since then&#8211;we&#8217;d be kicking ourselves if we&#8217;d pushed our luck and lost out.  She was right, of course.</p>
<p>I think the most common example of this that we saw when looking was a fully finished basement and/or MIL.  We saw lots of these listings: &#8220;Newly finished lower level with full MIL/second kitchen!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t need a huge kids&#8217; playroom, we didn&#8217;t want to rent out part of our home, and we certainly didn&#8217;t want our respective mothers-in-law coming to live with us&#8230; a laundry room, some extra storage space, and room for a workbench is all we wanted from a basement &#8211; and so it was all we were willing to pay for.  We weren&#8217;t willing to pay sellers who saw it as fully finished and useable space (even when that&#8217;s exactly what it was, and to the right buyer, it would become a &#8220;unique commodity&#8221; worth playing hardball over), because we never would have used it that way ourselves.</p>
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