legitimate offer.”
He didn’t ask why.
That was one of the reasons I trusted him.
By noon, the cards were locked.
By three, the property was privately listed.
And by five, an investor who had previously expressed interest submitted an offer.
It wasn’t quite what the house would have brought on the open market.
But it was close.
And more importantly, the closing could happen quickly.
I signed.
Then I went home.
My actual home.
The apartment I had purchased years earlier and rarely mentioned to my family because they
