$250,000

Tuesday February 16

What I didn’t write was that I had a Buyer for my house. The correspondence went on for about 10 days, I guess. He said he would pay $179,000 for the house and the lot next to it. He is a businessman from Hong Kong and said he will have his stock broker send a check to my lawyer.
All of this was strange, but it was welcomed. He didn’t see the house except on the website. Then he sent the check.

To make a long story short, the check was for more than the house – $250,000 plus! But I was told by Maria that she can’t deposit for a couple of reasons. One is that the Buyer’s name has to be on the check; Two, that she does not have an account in the name that he wrote it to (it’s just a trade name). And three, that a contract has to be written with his name on it to make it all legal.

When I wrote back to this Chong Lin and told him why my lawyer couldn’t deposit the check, I didn’t receive an answer for a couple of days. When he did write back he said he sorry he was out of town. He said since that is the case, the deal is off.

I had my doubts about him awhile ago. No one buys a house sight unseen, then to put not only the full amount but more than the house is worth (which I told him). It was just a way of him to laundry money.