Two years, two million dollars

That’s how long it took the owners of 25 Game Cock Road in Byram to accept the world as it is, not as they would have it be. They listed the property June 21, 2017 for $4.9 mlllion and on June 21, 2019 they accepted an offer of $2.850. It closed today.

I was not involved in this deal and so have no idea whether it was the case in this instance, but often, when a house finally sells after a long time on the rolls, it turns out that the seller had turned down one, even several offers, each successively lower, before finally selling for far less than that first offer. Again, I have no knowledge of the details here, but it seems an appropriate place to remind readers that they should give some deep consideration to almost any offer; it might well be the best you’re going to get.