Plain and simple.

I didn't read every comment to this post, at the risk of repeating what others have said, that house is plain old ugly on the outside, it looks like two different houses interior vs. exterior.

also many of the higher end stuff that people lost in the 08 2011 was people speculating on higher end homes.. think Vegas  FLA  PHXwhen they could not sell them .. and could not rent them to come anywhere near their mortgage payment they walked.. you cant buy a million dollar home now without putting a decent down payment and pretty much owner occupying.. so the only reason anyone loses a million dollar home today .. the normal reasons they lose homes in any market   1. job lose  2 Divorce  3. death 4 . illness 5. plain old American mismanagement of credit  IE  spend more than they make  .. 

I checked out their website and realized Opendoor makes money on fees, plain and simple.

@Wayne Tam  Her are a few ideas for saving money.Use your ink jet printer but buy an ink refill kit, you will refill a cartridge for $2-4, some printers will recognize if you put the same cartridge back in right away so keep 2 or 3 and rotate them through.Instead of using the legal pad paper buy some plain yellow photo paper, write your letter on white paper WITH LINES, then copy that in color mode over to your yellow paper, with a little running you should be able to get the lines to print too.Someone here on BP advise that there is an app that will turn your personal handwriting into a font for your computer, I have not tried that yet but it has to beat hand addressing 100's  of envelopes so I will try it soon.  

Do you use just a plain yellow postcard or do you use the glossy postcards?

Plain paper  or post card?

Ive sent a small mailing on plain white paper and gotten an ok response (2%), but they are no strangers to tools like zillow.

I switched in August to a plain yellow postcard I designed and have two deals under contract from that mailing. 1000 postcards only cost $250 so it was very cost effective.

The HELOC costs you more money plain and simple.