Question

Yvette buys and sells real estate. Two weeks ago, she paid $300,000 for a house on Pine Street, intending to spend $50,000 on repairs and then sell the house for $400,000. Last week, the city government announced a plan to build a new landfill on Pine Street just down the street from the house Yvette purchased. As a result of the city’s announced plan, Yvette is weighing two alternatives: She can go ahead with the $50,000 in repairs and then sell the house for $290,000, or she can forgo the repairs and sell the house as it is for $250,000. She shoulda. keep the house and live in it.
b. go ahead with the $50,000 in repairs and sell the house for $290,000.
c. forgo the repairs and sell the house as it is for $250,000.
d. move the house from Pine Street to a more desirable location, regardless of the cost of doing so.

Answer 1

Answer:

c. forget the repairs and sell the house as it is for $250,000.

Explanation:

The best option from the shown is to foget about the repairs and directly seel it at $250,000 because that leaves her with a loss of $50,000 instead of a $60,000 loss on her money, that is the best option financially. Also as the time passes the plan for the creation of the landfill downstreet will become more and more known and the value could decrease more.