0220 - Follow the Advice of Close Mavens about Buying a House

00:01 When we moved to Miami in the year of Tafshin Lamed Daled, which is the end of nineteen seventy-three, we rented a house. Then when I went into Yechidas Shvu'es that year, Shvu'es, I asked the Rebbe if I should buy a house. And the Rebbe said, "Aglai Chazak, that's the right thing to do." So when we came back from Shvu'es, we got an agent, and the agent helped us look for a house, and we were looking around for a house to buy. We found one house which seemed fitting to our needs. So we thought this is a good house to buy. So I wrote to the Rebbe and asked the Rebbe if I should put in an offer for this house. And the Rebbe answered, "Ki Hatzaz Yedidim Evinim." You should do according to advice of friends who are Mevinim, understand, Di Zinyonim, understand real estate, et cetera, et cetera. So I spoke to a few people who are Yedidim Evinim, and they advised me that it's a good idea to give in an offer, but they said, "Go the lowest, the highest you should go is to a certain price." So I gave in an offer. They came back with an offer of much more. I said, "I'm not taking it." So I went a little bit up, and then when they went a little bit down, finally going back and forth, back and forth, the end was that I came to a point that I was going to give the maximum that the Yedidim

01:16 Evinim said to give. And they didn't want to go down that low. And finally, it went down that there was a difference in two and a half thousand dollars. And by this time, it was already the end of the time of the contract that that night at midnight, if I don't take it, then the contract will expire. And this was a house which seemed to be fit, fitting to our needs. And they said they're not going any lower, and there's a difference in two and a half thousand dollars. Now, my mind, two and a half thousand dollars is not so much, especially if there was a mortgage of twenty years, how much can that be already? So I wanted to know if I should go up with the two and a half thousand dollars more than what the Yedidim Evinim told me. So since it was the last day, I called Reb Yomim Klein. It must have been about six o'clock in the afternoon. And I said to him that the contract will expire. There's a difference in two and a half thousand dollars. Should I take it or not? Should I give them into the two and a half, extra two and a half thousand dollars or not? Could you ask the Rebbe? About an hour or less than an hour later, Reb Yomim Klein calls me, and he says he gave in a tzetl to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered, "Ki medume shekvar nisim le lases ki atsas Yedidim Evinim." I think

02:26 I answered him already that he should do according to the itz of Yedidim Evinim. So I understood that I have to stick to the offer that I gave and not to go up the two and a half thousand dollars. So I called up the agent, and I said, "Sorry, I'm not doing it." The agent said, "What's going on? Just for two and a half thousand dollars, you're gonna lose the house. The house was nice, and the house fit to your needs, et cetera, et cetera. For two and a half thousand dollars, you're gonna lose it. That doesn't make any sense." So I told the agent, "Sorry, but that's what I'm going to do." And the agent said, "Okay." And that night, we were thinking we lost the house, even though it's for two and a half thousand dollars, but the Rebbe said to stick to what the Yedidim Evinim said, so we didn't go up, and that's it. The pale, six o'clock in the morning, I get a call from the agent. The agent says that at the last minute, the sellers decided to give in, and they went down to the price that you offered. So here's because the Rebbe saved us the two and a half thousand dollars when he said that I answered you already that you should go according to the atsas Yedidim Evinim.