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Originally Posted by NJblue
...After our first offer fell through, we have become a bit calloused to the potential for a real buyer to show up.
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NJBlue - We had a very similar experience as we went through the process. It was like we lived in a musuem. Put on the radio, light some candles, be sure the grass is cut, put everything away, wait for them to come. Time after time. Then we had a really interested couple that came back 5 times. They came themselves, then brought the kids, they brought mom, they brought the other kid, they came back again. We were elated! A bad market and we found a buyer in a matter of a few weeks. Then, after more than a month of visiting, they just decided "No". We showed the house many more times, still enthusiastically, and then got tired. We lost all enthusiasm, and became jaded about the "buyers". The winter was coming, the listing was expiring, so we said "Let's wait for the spring because the house and property look bad in the winter". One day last January a realtor called that we'd never met and asked if we're still interested in selling. We said OK (what did we have to lose?), they came to see the house (both of us thought they didn't like it) and made an offer after a day of thinking it over. They had a house to sell, and I was reluctant to wait (we figured it would never happen but nothing else was happening either), so I gave them a few weeks to try, and they sold their house in a matter of two weeks - they really wanted our house and priced theirs very aggressively.
Anyway, the point of the story (sorry for rambling) was the showing and the offer and the sale were all something we just thought wouldn't amount to anything. The winter (pool closed, bare trees, no flowers) was good to us as it turned out. So when you least expect it, it can still happen!