By Steve Straub
A Sacramento, California area woman just learned the hard way about the cost of refusing to sell her home to any Trump supporters:
A Carmichael resident landed in the national spotlight in March, when she put her family home up for sale. She had one special instruction for her real estate agent: Do not sell to a Donald Trump supporter.
After being taken off the market temporarily, that home’s sale is now just about a done deal — with a six-figure cut to its original asking price.
Listed for $625,000 in March, the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home is pending sale at a price of $495,000, according to documents and listings available on multiple real estate websites this week. The homeowner used a different real estate agent this time.
“She’s just a seller and she asked me to sell it,” said JaCi Wallace, an associate for Re/Max Gold, indicating that no further instructions had been given to her.
The homeowner could not be immediately reached for comment.
It took a matter of days upon the home’s original listing in March for the seller at the time — who spoke to CBS 13 in a video interview but did not publicly announce her name — to have her political home-selling policy reach headlines in local outlets, as well as Fox News.
“When you’re talking about principles, morals and ethics, it’s very, very deep,“ she said in the interview.
The homeowner’s real estate agent on the previous listing, Elizabeth Weintraub, said she had never had such a request come her way before. Within a week of the widespread publicity, the home was temporarily pulled off the market.
Ryan Lundquist, a certified residential appraiser and active real estate blogger in the Sacramento area, noted the pending sale Thursday on Twitter.
Lundquist told The Bee on Friday the $130,000 price difference was most likely due to of the home being overpriced in the first place, with reasons related to politics or media attention playing less of a factor.
As they say, karma is a …
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RRE: As in telling one's Real Estate agent to steer clear of selling to someone based on their sexual preference, the owner's request to sell to a Buyer based on political affiliation/preference reeks of being ILLEGAL!!!
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