Chapter 301: I’ve never bought a house like this before
The house talks went far smoother than Andrew needed to worry about. Maxwell had been right, as had Kim and Jenny. The owners of the house didn’t want to sell to just anyone. They had wanted to sell it to someone who was going to make it a home, and not just use it for what they called ’show and tell’. It was a bit unorthodox, but they asked if they could have a phone call with Andrew and Maxwell, just to confirm what they wanted to do outside of the fact that Maxwell and Andrew were considering putting money down on the place.
It was scheduled during their down time, so lunch time, and Andrew and Maxwell gathered in Maxwell’s office, two days later, and spoke to the current owners of the house.
They seemed nice, and Andrew was upfront that they would have to make some changes to the building because there was such a significant height difference between Maxwell and Andrew. They would have to put in moving shelves and countertops so that if Maxwell wanted to cook, he could do so, or if anyone else came over to the house as well. They also explained that while they liked the house, they had to move quicker because they had a dependent moving in with them and that they wanted to get a place ready for them as soon as possible.
Andrew had revealed these things, wanting to be upfront while Maxwell had frowned beside him. Andrew had a feeling that while Maxwell was a bit upset that Andrew was being candid, the current owners weren’t going to be upset about it. It was going to be their house if they bought it, because they were buying it together, and it was well within their rights to change things as long as it was interior things. Exterior things? Andrew didn’t care too much about it. The house was pretty on the outside, and they also didn’t need to get all of the changes they wanted to do, done right away.
The house was move in ready, they just needed to make adjustments to make it a home for Andrew and Maxwell. And Richard.
The phone call lasted the full lunch break. The owners asking lots of questions, so much that Andrew could tell that Maxwell was getting riled up but Andrew just took his hand, holding it in his own and giving it a squeeze. At the end, they sighed, and then told them that they were relieved. They sounded like they were really intent on moving into this place, and that they were, respectfully, telling them to go fuck themselves.
Andrew had been a little stunned when they had said that, before they had laughed. They promised that was a good thing. All of the other people who had called hadn’t been as honest with them as Andrew had been, and it was less about what they wanted to do, and more about the fact that they wanted to make it a home.
Everyone else they had been on a phone call with had just tried to kiss ass instead of being honest with the owners. They then told Andrew and Maxwell the offer they were willing to accept, about $100 000 below what the asking price was, and hung up.