This archive article is selected from The Cleveland Pages , the city's only weekly independent journal of politics and opinion on the Internet. Find out all about the Cleveland Pages here, or check out the current issue . I'm discovering that the hardest part of selling a house can be figuring out a realistic asking price. Unfortunately, it appears that the professionals are finding it no easier.
Appraisers like to find records of recent sales of comparable nearby properties.
Our current house on Mapledale Avenue is at one end of a row of three Western Reserve style houses with identical floor plans and lot sizes. Nothing else on the street looks much like these at all. Okay, so let's look at nearby sales. Yet there are a few Archwood blocks where everything costs a lot more than on Mapledale. Maybe people think it's more fun there, voting with their dollars.