[faithfulfrank]

There are a few good folks here who have asked me how our 5 year long quest to become Floridians is going.

I have sold the last 3 homes I've owned myself, so in the beginning of summer I started marketing and working on selling my home. We almost had it sold a few times, but each time if fell through. We then a couple of months ago listed it with a good local Realtor. We then had a few more "close deals", but each fell through. We lowered our asking price 10k and installed new carpeting.

We signed a purchase offer last week. We took a bit less then we wanted, but it is a cash deal, ( common down there I know, but VERY RARE up here in NY).

The home inspection went well today. Now we just wait 48 hours to see the results of the Radon test. We are praying that the radon test goes well, as I do not want to spend any money mitigating Radon, as it can be a costly fix. I'll know those results on Thursday.

If all continues to go well, we should close the first week of December. My youngest son is closing on his new house this next week or so, and he is taking most of our furniture. (Everything but our bed...I think it just creeps him out...lol.)
Since our Florida home is fully furnished we are moving very little.

I'll feel better when closing is over, but as it stands it looks like I may never shovel another flake of snow..........Yippee!!!!

We bought our Florida home 5 years ago....and patiently waited for this day. The selling process has been very difficult, but I'm hoping once we smell that Florida air again and know we are there for good all this stress will be forgotten.

Looking forward to then meeting many of you good folks.

Frank