Originally Posted by Dirigo (Post 402205)

Our ninth showing came and went without and offer. The ninth person said the house was #1 on her list, but was concerned about the maintenance of our private road.

We accepted that the house probably wouldn't sell before snow flies and we were talking to the fine folks who responded to my post asking for a house to rent this winter.

We decided that money was money whether we paid it for rent and heat and plowing, or took less for our house. I directed our broker to ask the ninth showing to make an offer taking her aprehension about the private road into consideration.

Her first offer was not as low as we had feared:). We thought she might come up a little, so we took a chance and made a counter offer. She came up more than we expected :). I wanted to try one more counter offer, but the advice of all those whose opinions I trust (my wife's, the lovely Diane's, first and foremost) said to take it. We accepted her counter and signed a contract last Saturday.

I was talking to a Villages friend about our contract price in an email and I made the comment that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush". He corrected me by saying "a bird in the hand is worth everything, because there are no birds in the bush". He's right...buyers are scarce.

We didn't get as much as we wanted or as much as we felt our lovely home was worth, but we made a profit, we don't have a mortgage, and we can afford a home in TV that we will be happy with.

We have been shopping online for way too many hours ever since we signed and are flying down to TV over the Columbus Day holiday weekend to look at a few houses. There is a house we found that we really, really like the looks of, so we have to act fast as the best ones always go fast. Our deal could still fall apart, we know, but we had these two free airline tickets that had to be used before January 1, 2012 anyways, so off we go to TV this weekend! We may make an offer on a place contingent to the sale of our house. If all goes well we could be living in TV by the holidays!

Thanks to all for listening and thanks for your support.

Maybe our dream of living in TV...this dream we've had for over 12 years...the dream that got us through all those snowy, dark, cold days, and some hard times, and some health problems, maybe that dream is about to come true.

Kinda chokes me up, y'know...?

Originally Posted by BookBarb (Post 402328)

You waited until the right one came along, and that's all that it takes. Our right one came after 20+ showings and it was all worth it. We closed yesterday and are headed to TV tomorrow to become FROGS. You will soon be here too.:a040:

Originally Posted by Dirigo (Post 402463)

"Fairy tales can come true. It can happen to you if you're young at heart"-who sang that song? Seems appropriate, doesn't it? Congratulations!

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 402485)

Oh Dirigo.

I am so happy for you and the lovely Diane. She gave you very good advice and so did your friend telling you about the birdless bush.

We took far less than what our house would have sold for six-seven years ago but we are here and in our new home and loving it.

We sold our home and dashed down here and picked a lot, rented a house, stored our furniture .........here we are.

I now send you all kinds of good wishes because the actual packing and moving was so much harder than we anticipated. Thank heavens our almost 50 year marriage is pretty solid, because that part was a TEST!

Be assured of a warm welcome on this end and our welcome mat is always out. Please stop by for a hug and a snack and some warm conversation.

Lifting my coffee mug to great happiness to you both and every dream come true!!

Originally Posted by Jim Straz (Post 402466)

Frank Sinatra!

Originally Posted by LvmyPug2 (Post 402474)

Congratulations! I know exactly what you are going through. We close in TV in less than two weeks and I can hardly believe it is happening. Years of dreaming of becoming Villagers and now it is happening. WooHoo!:a040:

I will say, "virtual" house hunting on the Internet did not prepare me for the whirlwind of actually shopping for a house in TV. I was overwhelmed by all the options. Before we started we were convinced we would buy a pre owned CYV somewhere between the two town squares We ended up falling in love with a new cottage model home in St James. My advice is look at a variety of models and locations. Have fun shopping and welcome to TV

Originally Posted by john p troiano (Post 369380)

why does the village realestate not offer va mortgages, and the village bank will not do va mortgages????