[lincap]

Selling a home is a combination of pricing, condition/location of property and luck. Don't underestimate the "luck" part. We sold our home in the first week at the first open house to a couple that were not even looking to buy a home. They were visiting friends in the neighborhood, saw the open house and decided to take a look. Fell in love with the house and decided to make an offer. Now that was luck. Moving to TV was definately in the cards for us. Best of luck in selling yours. Don't get discouraged. There is a buyer for every home.

[Dirigo]

Seventh showing came and went with no offer. Nothing negative mentioned from any of the showings. The house is priced to sell and is in line with recent comparable sales. Condition and cleanliness are primo.

The right person has yet to discover it.

Meanwhile, we are considering the unthinkable (for us frugal Yankees), buying a home in TV before selling "up North".

A fellow I play golf with dropped dead a week ago at 65 . I'm 61. You never know when it will be your turn to cash in your chips so we may throw caution to the wind and "just do it".

Dirigo

[Pturner]

Dirigo,
Just as you're about to resign yourself to doing that... the offer comes. I feel an offer coming. I do.

Now, my fingers and toes would thank the would be buyer to move ahead with an offer.

[pzjay]

Originally Posted by Pturner

Dirigo,
Just as you're about to resign yourself to doing that... the offer comes. I feel an offer coming. I do.

Now, my fingers and toes would thank the would be buyer to move ahead with an offer.

Dirigo...Praying & hoping for you also.

P - you are too kind.....

[Dirigo]

We had showing number eight today. Ho hum...

We are anxious, but not excited. This is becoming a PITA.

Someone who was in our home this afternoon must have taken a bath in her "scent" because the house reeked of perfume. And I think she took a wiz before she left because the scent was strongest in the bathroom and our "show" towel was wet. Can't begrudge her for needing to go, but going in an occupied house that is for sale is not something I would do if I could help it. Maybe she couldn't help it.

I don't mind strangers coming through our home to look around, but I don't like them leaving any evidence behind that they were here.

Guess I'm getting grumpy. I need to play golf this weekend and relax.

On a positive note, some folks we met in TV last winter are coming over for supper tomorrow night so I'm sure the converstaion will eventually turn to TV.

Thanks for letting me vent. I'll have a better attitude tomorrow...honest I will.

Dirigo

[ssmith]

Ahhh so sorry Dirigo! Hang in there, keep your eye on the prize!

[Trish Crocker]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I am going to tell you a secret. I have heard many people tell their success with burying a statue of St. Joseph upside down in the front yard. Well, I have always liked St. Joseph and his whole family and just couldn't do that. Plus it seems a little bit like superstition.

My dear new friend from Buffalo, New York told me about some guy named Father Baker who is big around Buffalo and Western New York. My dear new friend said she had asked him for help on the sale of last house and was going to do the same for me.

Well, our house sold in nine days. So...you might give a shout to this fellow, Father Baker, who saw to the building of the large and beautiful basilica in Buffalo New York...which I have never personally seen. Father Baker passed away, I am told several decades ago, but he must be the reason we sold our house so quickly. Just ask him to help you sell YOUR house. Couldn't hurt.

Thank you Karen.

Gracie, when we sold my fathers home things weren't going as fast as we would have liked so my brothers suggested the St. Joseph idea. The closest thing to a St. Joseph statue I had was from a cheap copy of a Precious Moment Christmas nativity scene. I took St. Joseph, carried him out to the backyard and buried him. That's when the confusion started!! Looking at the remaining figures, I realized that I had possibly buried one of the wisemen instead...and then the issue came up ..should he be buried upside down, facing the east, head up...etc, etc......sooo...I tried to find him, buried somewhere in my dad's 1/2 acre back yard. Needless to say, he's still out there somewhere. Btw..the house did sell.

[Trish Crocker]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I am going to tell you a secret. I have heard many people tell their success with burying a statue of St. Joseph upside down in the front yard. Well, I have always liked St. Joseph and his whole family and just couldn't do that. Plus it seems a little bit like superstition.

My dear new friend from Buffalo, New York told me about some guy named Father Baker who is big around Buffalo and Western New York. My dear new friend said she had asked him for help on the sale of last house and was going to do the same for me.

Well, our house sold in nine days. So...you might give a shout to this fellow, Father Baker, who saw to the building of the large and beautiful basilica in Buffalo New York...which I have never personally seen. Father Baker passed away, I am told several decades ago, but he must be the reason we sold our house so quickly. Just ask him to help you sell YOUR house. Couldn't hurt.

Thank you Karen.

Gracie, when we sold my fathers home things weren't going as fast as we would have liked so my brothers suggested the St. Joseph idea. The closest thing to a St. Joseph statue I had was from a cheap copy of a Precious Moment Christmas nativity scene. I took St. Joseph, carried him out to the backyard and buried him. That's when the confusion started!! Looking at the remaining figures, I realized that I had possibly buried one of the wisemen instead...and then the issue came up ..should he be buried upside down, facing the east, head up...etc, etc......sooo...I tried to find him, buried somewhere in my dad's 1/2 acre back yard. Needless to say, he's still out there somewhere. Btw..the house did sell.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by Dirigo

We had showing number eight today. Ho hum...

We are anxious, but not excited. This is becoming a PITA.

Someone who was in our home this afternoon must have taken a bath in her "scent" because the house reeked of perfume. And I think she took a wiz before she left because the scent was strongest in the bathroom and our "show" towel was wet. Can't begrudge her for needing to go, but going in an occupied house that is for sale is not something I would do if I could help it. Maybe she couldn't help it.

I don't mind strangers coming through our home to look around, but I don't like them leaving any evidence behind that they were here.

Guess I'm getting grumpy. I need to play golf this weekend and relax.

On a positive note, some folks we met in TV last winter are coming over for supper tomorrow night so I'm sure the converstaion will eventually turn to TV.

Thanks for letting me vent. I'll have a better attitude tomorrow...honest I will.

Dirigo

Hang in there!!!!!!! It will sell. You only need one yes!!!!!!!!!

When it does sell, you will be bouncing off the walls with excitement.

Remember the sports axiom, "you don't get too high and you don't get too low"

Wait a minute, I need to remember that myself!!!!!!!

TV or Bust!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trish Crocker]

no idea why my message posted twice...sorry~

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by Trish Crocker

no idea why my message posted twice...sorry~

It's just a guess. I have had this happen to me as I was expecting the screen to change and it didn't so I resubmiited the post thinking it didn't go through.

I usually just edit the second post with a dot and the reason being "duplicate post".

Stuff happens. Hope this helped.

[Dirigo]

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 apprehension 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...?

[2BNTV]

Congrats on the sale of your home. I am sooooooooooo happy for you.

Best wishes as you start to live the dream.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Dirigo - Hope the deal on your current home goes through o.k. Keeping our fingers crossed for you!

Bill

[quirky3]

That's so great! Life is a celebration, isn't it? So much to look forward to!