It's beginning to look like you and others may have brought us good luck with your well wishes. As I stated in the OP, our house goes on the market on Nov. 1st. However, the agent contacted me during the beginning of last week and said that the house was ready for showing and they wanted to move it up to what is now this past Thursday.

Here, now three days after listing we get an acceptable offer and have another that has looked at the house a total of 4 or 5 times already. Might we have a bidding war in the making? :clap2:

BTW, if anyone wants to see the house we're selling's listing, PM me and I'll provide you with the web address. (no need to make an offer first)

It has to be beautiful. Yours in Hadley is gorgeous.

No bidding war. Other viewer low-offered us considerably! BUT.....

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Day 1: 10/27/11 - House listed on the market for sale.
Day 3: 10/30/11 - Offer made!
Day 4: 10/31/11 - Bank pre-approval received, offer accepted & executed.

Can't happen much better than that... pending successful inspections and final bank approval of course!

Now we'll be able to apply for our full Froggie Certifications!

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Forgot to mention: Hope some of this luck here rubs off on those waiting to sell so you can join us here soon... REAL SOON!

Fantastic!
 

That's fantastic, SkyGuy!! The hard part is over!! I'm so happy for you!

Sounds great, skyguy! Hope the rest of the process works as well for you!

Bill :)

Thanks! But you wouldn't be saying "The hard part is over" if you saw all the boxes that we have remaining as well as picture hanging, relaxing, furnature re-arranging, relaxing, organizing, relaxing, etc., etc., etc!
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Thanks Bill! Don't worry about the "rest of the process!" We got our supply of pop-corn and the m/w is working fine! :wave:

...............plus drinking beer while sitting in your golf cart on the square....... :jester:

Bill :wave:

You'll never catch me doing that Bill. Don't have a golf cart... and no plans in the immediate future for one anyway!

Wow, that was fast! CONGRATULATIONS!

Don't worry about the unpacking....well, listen to me, it's not me doing it..... ;) Alas, there is no unpacking fairy that comes with each new home...wouldn't that be nice... ;)

Skyguy:

I am sooooooooooooooo happy for you. :)

Oh yes there is! When you coming over? :throwtomatoes:

...just kidding of course! :p

And you think after 5 years, I've finished my unpacking?.....:a20::a20::a20:

Hurray for Skyguy.

Sold in 4 days. AWESOME!

Another thank you (not) to our Federal Government
 

Our good luck took a rapid about face thanks to our property being declared by FEMA to be in a flood zone, and our house has never even come close to any flooding or had more than a few inches of standing water in our basement from storm drain backup when there has been nearby flooding. Go figure! And this is just one of a number of negative situations we've experienced lately where the cause can be traced back to various actions by our federal government.

It also figures that our buyers found out about this new decleration before we did, and when they found out that flood insurance (required by the bank) would cost something like $4500 per year, they backed out of the contract.

Next week we're having an engineer do an elevation study at an additional expense of $500 as that may result in a signifant reduction in the flood insurance cost, possibly to under $900 anually, and if that can happen then we have a much better chance of selling with the taxes being pretty low at out location. If we're really lucky we might find a cash buyer and insurance won't be necessary.
In the mean it's back to square one!http://www.opticstalk.com/smileys/Head%20Banger.gif