Our old address was 613 Appian Way and our current address is 224 Crawford St.

Owl brings good luck?
 

Thanks! I didnt know that owls bring good luck! So glad you said that, I have had one perched in a tree outside my house for about two weeks now! :pepper2:. Thank you for sharing :2excited:. I hope all the many TOTV'ers that are trying to sell have good luck :bowdown:. Thank you to all the well wishers for our quick sale :beer3:.

Showing number 43
 

Ok, so we have another showing today at 3 pm. I can't believe that I am rushing around cleaning the house like a madwoman for the 43rd time! Say a prayer for us!!!

Saying a prayer....
 

Good luck...good luck....good luck!!! I will say a prayer for you and be thinking of you at 3 p.m.. I always rush around like a madwoman too lol :faint: and when its all over I am exhausted lol.
I hope this is the one!! Best of luck to you!! :beer3:

Showing number 44
 

Ok, so it is looking like we are getting a lot of interest in the house, finally!!!:pepper2::pepper2: Maybe F16 got the ball rolling for all of us, and we are all finally going to sell our houses soon!!!:coolsmiley: We had someone come by the house yesterday, and they sat in their car staring at the house for about 10 minutes. Then they got out of their car and took a few pictures. Maybe these are the people coming to see the house tonight at 6:45 pm? Say a few prayers for us around that time!

Wow...good luck!!!
 

It must be your birthday present...wow how cool is that to happen on your birthday!!! :coolsmiley: Many prayers coming your way at 6:45 p.m.!!
Good luck!! :pepper2:

P.S. F-16....dont hesitate to send Nonie and I some of that good luck too lol!! :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

GOOD LUCK to you SS. Prayers, white lights ,and all good things go out to you for a sale on your house tonite. Ill be thinking about you!

We were supposed to be having showing number 45 tonight, but they called and cancelled because the husband got sick. They are going to reschedule for later this week. So the cleaning continues......

Ditto....
 

Same thing happened here sschuler, realtor called the night before (so much for 24 hr. notice guh!). I got up at 5 a.m. washed and waxed floors (after having 4 grown "boys" riding 4wheelers all weekend...so you can guess the mud on the floors lol!? :rant-rave:). And they cancelled, and are coming later in the week. :oops:. Good luck to you when they do come :beer3:.

Good luck to you too JeanneBeannie! Can't wait to party with you down in TV!!! My hubby thinks I am too picky when I clean for these showings. I even rake my footprints out of the carpet as I back out of the hallway. LOL Maybe I am crazy! :girlneener: But I keep thinking that this could be the one that wants to buy the house, and it needs to look perfect!

I am the same way lol lol!!!
 

My friends think I am too picky too lol! I have the candles going, the classical music going lol, fresh flowers, the whole bit...ugh! We are gonna need a vacation when we finally get to TV!! :pepper2: I love the idea of the rake on the carpet...never thought of that one :oops:.....thanks!!
Look forward to meeting you too! :girlneener:. I have two showings tomorrow, so again I will be up at the crack of dawn cleaning and waxing! :faint::faint::faint:. Cant wait till this is over yeehaawww!! :pepper2:

sschuler and jeannebeannie I feel for you guy's, It took me almost 3 years to sell in Colorado. I lost 80K. I think I stoled a house here so I made some of it back.
I've been here 3 weeks or so and have been so busy living the tv life that I haven't found my silverware yet. Met some totv people and I'm so glad to be here the 80K seems to have been worth it. Sschuler have a fried pork chop at two brothers for me and do what ever it takes to get here. It will be worth whatever you have to loose in Plymouth to get it sold, At least it was for me.
Hope to meet some day.
Benj

Showing number 45 tomorrow at 4:30 pm. Realtor says it is not the same people that cancelled earlier this week, so we might still end up with another showing this weekend. Oh, pleeeeeeze let this be our buyer!!!

Thank you!
 

Thank you Benj for your encouragement, it really helps on some days of discouragement around here when there is no action. I also am losing a huge chunk of change, asking $100,000 less this year than last year :cryin2:. Put alot of updates in etc....dumb :oops:. But, cant cry over spilled milk my Mother would say, you sound like you are having so much fun in TV that I am sure as soon as I move there all of this will be a distant memory. :pepper2:
Hope to meet you, plannng on being down there late summer. :beer3:
Jeanne

Good Luck!!!!
 

Cool Beans Sschuler...another showing!!! :coolsmiley:. I will cross my fingers, toes, eyes etc. etc. for you, and say lots of prayers :bowdown:. Please let us know how it goes. Hopefully someday we will all be celebrating in TV!! :pepper2:

Showing number 46 tomorrow morning at 10:45 am. A friend of mine let me borrow a cross with St. Joseph on it (and it was blessed, by whom I don't know!), and I am going to walk around the house with it and say a prayer. The one in the ground hasn't done the trick so far....

Good Luck on #46!!
 

Good luck Sschuler on your showing this morning!! You sure deserve it after 45 showings! :faint:. It really can wear on a person, with all this waxing and washing :cryin2:. I have a showing at 1:30 today, going to do my best inside, but if I dont get outside to the weeds...I will never sell lol!! :1rotfl:
Will be thinking of you at 10:45...good luck!!! :highfive:

Thanks Jeanne! I'll say a prayer for you around 1:30 pm!!! Wouldn't it be great if we could both find a buyer today? :coolsmiley:

I'm sorry Sschuler, I just saw your good wishes. Thank you very much. How did you make out on Saturday with your showing? Mine was a dud lol, well they said they loved it but I didnt get the feeling they were serious buyers :shrug:. We will both sell soon and be dancing in TV this winter! :pepper2:
Jeanne

Still haven't heard anything from the realtor about the showing on Saturday. Don't know if that is good news or not. We usually hear right away if they don't like it, so maybe? We can only hope....

A watched pot never boils
 

We know all too well the feeling of "this may be the one". I doubt that anyone was as obsessive about the sales process as we were. Every day (and sometimes multiple times per day) we checked the multiple listing site to see what our competitors were doing from a price perspective and to track new competitors. This obsession reached a crescendo in January when we actually stooped to effectively "stalking" potential buyers as well as our competitors' open houses.

We finally had enough of this and decided to get away to TV for a couple months. While we were gone, we continued to have showings and multiple open houses but it was somewhat out of our mind at that point. After two glorious months of being away from the home-selling rat race, we needed to get back to start spring clean-up of the yard and gardens. Miraculously, within 5 days of getting back we had two offers on our house! Perhaps that is the secret to home selling - just put it out of your mind and let things happen.

I,m jealous
 

Congrats on the offers. You are so right about the frustration and feeling obsessed. We have reduced the price of our home below market and still we have very few showings. I know our house will sell but I want to get to TV now. Everyone on this sight is so great, I can't wait to call you neighbors. I hope the home inspection and all else goes well in NJ and all us wanabees will be joining you soon. Good luck NJ on the rest of the process.

Wishing you Luck
 

Have been reading posts of several of you having houses for sale. Good luck to all of you. We have had ours on the market only 10 days so far. I think it's great if you get people looking, even though it's hard keeping it "sparkling" all the time. We have told ourselves we will come up with a "plan B" that will somehow get us to TV one way or another if the house doesn't sell this summer. It's on a lake, that's why we think this is the most opportune time to sell it.

Showing #47 tomorrow at 12:30 pm. We have seen a few lookers in our driveway in the last few days taking a flier out of the box. The one that looked today sat staring at the house for a good ten minutes. Hopefully we will get a few more showings coming up too! I stained the decking in the backyard today, but don't have time to powerwash and stain the deck in the front. They should understand that it is the beginning of spring and that we will finish that as well. We had too many rainy days this week to get it all done. Oh, well....you can only do what you can do!!

Well, I guess tomorrow's showing will be number 48 now instead. We had a couple come up to our house this evening and wanted to see the yard. They really liked the property and asked if it would be an imposition to see the inside of the house. So we took them around! They really liked the house, and it is significantly closer to work for both of them. It sounded very promising!

How did it go?
 

I hope you had a good showing yesterday and today! :bowdown:
I had the same thing happen to me today, a realtor showed up cause he couldnt reach my realtor and just wanted to see the property. Long story short, they were very nice and they didnt live close so we showed them everything. I had been cookin up a storm all day...thank goodness I just finished cleaning up my mess lol. It seemed to go great, they were here 1 1/2 hours :coolsmiley:. But as we all know too well....we will have to see what happens :shrug:.
Good luck to you and all that are trying to sell!! :pepper2::pepper2:

Showing number 49 tonight at 6 pm!:pepper2: Say a prayer for us!

Best of luck SS.:pepper2::beer3:

I hope this goes thru....
 

Good luck!!!! Saying lots of prayers for you at 6 p.m. :bowdown:
:bowdown: I hope all goes well with your showing!!! Good luck!! :pepper2:
Jeanne :beer3:

SS, Sending prayers your way that this is the one!!!!!!!!!!!

I can sympathize with you. These showings are getting old fast but still havant had near as many as you!

What I cant understand is the ones that come and love the place, spend hours talking to you about it, practically tell you its sold and then you never hear a word from them again!!!! Thats what we are going thru now, it sure is a big let down when you think"This is it" only to find out it isnt!

Did you bury St. Joseph???

Another Showing....
 

Best of luck, ss! Will be praying for you and will have a chat with St. Joe. Sure hope you sell and get to move to TV ASAP!! :pepper2::pepper2:

OMG sell that thing. My prayers are with you. I even satd one to St. Joseph for you.

We are at about 8 or 10.

Yoda

SS,

We cant stand the suspense any longer! Did last nights showing look promising?

Your way ahead of us, we havant had a showing in quite a while!:sigh:

Haven't heard anything yet about last night's showing. Still waiting to hear back from the realtor. Maybe that's a good thing? Maybe they are writing up the offer right now? That's just wishful thinking! I try not to get my hopes up anymore, because I'm getting tired of all the let downs. :undecided: Yes, Nonie. We buried St. Joseph last year, and he is still in the flower garden. We have had three or four lookers that said we were in their top two, but then an offer never arrives. So yes, Nonie, I know what you are going through, and no, I don't understand it either. :shrug:

A spy in the drawers
 

I heard of a person from a real estate agent friend, who was very creative.
After seeing that make it sell or what ever it is called show on hgtv channel, she whanted to know what people where really thinking when they toured her house. As she was of course never there (they say that if you are around they get uncomfortable and don't really look). So she borrowed every tape recorder she could find from all her friends and left them all in drawers behind books etc. running just before the time for the showing. After doing this a few times she discovered that the people where distracted by her collections etc. and thought the house was small . She rented a pod put all but the bear essentials packed up including half of the stuff in her closets so they looked bigger, rearanged rooms and put a solor tube in one people thought was dark. Bingo it sold. I think this was in part a hint from my friend that I am a pack rat, and that my husbands 10,000 comics will not help sell the house when the time comes.

Trudy,

That is an excellent idea. When I was a Realtor in Florida we tried so hard to convince people to put their personal items out of sight and get rid of the clutter. Unfortunately some of our clients would not except our advice, they would say, "We our selling our home not our house keeping or decorating skills." In today's market with all the competition you really need to do everything possible to make your home as neutral as possible. It is a Buyers Market as we all know and you need to know what the Buyer wants. Most are looking for a home that is ready to move in with very little if any work required. Many HGTV programs offer excellent advice on getting your home ready to sell. It is a tough market but houses are still selling.

Good Luck to all of you trying to sell your homes.

Ok, Halle - since you are the expert and an impartial third party, how about you look at my listing just like you are a buyer and tell me what your objections would be? Here is the link to my listing: http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...170_1109716504

This link has the virtual tour on it: http://www.moveinmichigan.com/Search...2230FTCA0TM7VA

I really would appreciate your input. Thanks

SS and all, I sure hope things work out for you soon with you home sales and moves to TV.

Sometimes I have to wonder if the owner leaving is necessary when the house is being shown. Being home and out of the way would make you available to answer any questions.

When we sold our last house, we ended up being on site and answering questions for the people who turned out to be the buyers. It just worked out that way. Although the market was good then, I still think maybe our being there at the right time for the answers helped. We did not follow them around. We were just available. I know agents do not like this usually. Ours did not mind. She knew I would be OK.

If you think it could help, you could just say that you are available for any questions and then excuse yourself and simply go out of sight and out of ear-shot. In nice weather you could just go outside. I have always wondered if not being home really helps in a deal. A live buyer will have lots of questions and may want answers right away.

Another thing is that if you have exceptionally good utilities costs, you might want to make that known. We had geothermal in our last house and that was a selling point. Some homes have great insulation. Having lower utilities costs than the competition could help you.

Boomer