Ben Lee, Esq. 
Real Estate Broker / Licensed Attorney
ben@benleeproperties.com
Coldwell Banker
Beverly Hills North Office
301 N. Canon Drive, Suite E
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 858-5489 direct
(310) 704-6580 cell
Ben Lee has sold properties throughout the Westside of Los Angeles, including Cheviot Hills, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Brentwood, Beverlywood, Westwood and Beverly Hills. Ben is a Cheviot Hills resident. Learn more about Ben here.
| Thank You Ben From Eric |
| Thursday, 13 May 2010 00:00 |
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Dear Ben, I had a birthday last week which prompted a few moments of retrospection on the past year. What a ride! At the beginning of last May, we were living in our house in Cheviot. Nothing eventful – it was the same May we’d been having for the past ten years. While we’d been discussing a move for a year to two, we hadn’t done much, if anything, about it. So, go through four more months of same then cut to last September 18th when I was dabbling in my front garden and you walked up and introduced yourself after another neighbor had tipped you off that I’d idly spoken of selling our house. I remember three things about that meeting: the first was I was already late for picking up my son from school, the second was that I told you we weren’t anywhere near ready to put the house on the market. and the third was that the balloon over my head said “bullshit” when you said you had a couple you were representing who’d be the perfect buyers for our house. For some reason, probably that I didn’t want my kid to be the last one in the sandbox, I agreed to talk with you further if we could put off the discussion until the next Wednesday. That next Wednesday you made your pitch, that Friday we had an offer, by Monday we’d agreed on the counter offer and escrow started that Tuesday. I remember telling people it was kind of like a surprise party version of selling a house. To bring it up to date, we’re now in the new house in Brentwood. The first stage of the remodel is almost finished, and the second stage is in the works. What I can’t believe is last September 17th, I had no idea of when, if, or how we would sell the house we were living in at the time. A lot of very good stuff has happened in the past eight months. So, I thought I’d drop you a line to say thanks for not being put off by that balloon over my head the first time we met, thanks for shepherding us through the sale and those usual potential glitches in escrow, and thanks for getting the whole process done so quickly. Warmest regards, Eric |
