DebSP - nice to see you posting, so very sorry about your grandchild. I think you're right about misery, sometimes it's just nice to know that the people we share common ground with, also experience similar issues from time to time.
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DebSP - nice to see you posting, so very sorry about your grandchild. I think you're right about misery, sometimes it's just nice to know that the people we share common ground with, also experience similar issues from time to time.
Hello Deb, im so sorry about your grandchild. I'm glad things are turning around for and I hope you continue to feel better. Please do check in when you can,
DebS, thanks for checking in, it is good to hear from you. I'm very sorry to read about your grandchild and I totally agree on being able to share with people who have common ground/experiences. It's important.
On a completely unrelated topic, we've broken 2,000,000 views on this thread :cool:
My condolences on the loss of your grandchild. I know nothing anyone "says" can make it all go away, but just posting here helps sometimes. Sounds like you are doing all of the right things to get your body back to where you want it. Physical activity, any kind, is really one of the best things you can do for yourself when faced with emotional things.
So, the people "loved" our house. We went to the grocery store during the showing, and DH was driving me nuts watching the feed from our security camera... it just shows if there's any movement in our driveway. So we knew how long they were there (half hour) and we saw them having a lengthy conversation with their agent. We have an audio feed, but we could only get snippets. We saw kids running around, while the parents were talking. Oak, one of the little boys was trying to touch the creepy owl!
Later on, we had feedback from our agent. They loved the house, they are coming back today during the open house, and, they are a somewhat different family than the typical group around here. Five kids (:eek:), all home schooled. They said the house would be tight for them, but doable. I have always believed that whoever buys this house will be slightly different (what does that say about me?). Hopefully, we'll have an offer soon.
Hope they're the magic buyers, Crankin, having a house on the market is just zero fun.
I finally did it yesterday, I got to go into the ocean!!!! My wife is not a water person and the waves scare her, but I still need help with stability so the most I've been able to do is go ankle deep. We had a friend visiting for the weekend and she loves to water so she helped me go out chest deep and we had a ball in the waves, it was so freeing!
Crankin, good luck, it sounds hopeful!
Yayy Pax, that sounds like fun! I can certainly understand your wife's perspective (I am not really a water person myself), but glad you found someone to help you with that :D
Ocean sounds good, Pax!
Meh, the people did not come back today, but I haven't written them off yet. I must say, it does seem like the world has changed in the past 10 years... I think people are watching too much HGTV! We've realized that our decision making process is quite different than others. Once it's made, we don't dally.
Had a nice, albeit cold, ride over to the condo today. Hard to believe that last Sunday, i was riding in short sleeves. Thinking about toughing it out and commuting tomorrow. I don't have to be there until 10:00, so even if it's 35 or so at 9, I'm good. I especially like riding home in the dark, when it's cold. We'll see. I am *finally* feeling better. Eyes still itchy, but less, but my head is not hurting and sinuses have really calmed down. We went out and had a nice dinner with our friends last night, and i was able to enjoy it.
To echo what Catrin said, that's very encouraging about your possible buyers, Crankin. We thought the same when we had our NC house on the market (that the buyers would be a bit "different") and sure enough, we were right. They had three kids (but one was going off to college in the fall), were vegan, and the father of the husband was actually quite well known. If anyone has heard of the China Study, well, the author's son and his family are the ones who bought our house. They were all very attractive, fit, healthy, but just a bit different from anyone we've ever met. And we did actually meet them, oddly. They wanted to ask us some questions about the house and specifically asked our realtor if they could meet us after we had a signed contract. We felt a bit strange about it, but it went fine.
Pax, so glad you got to experience and enjoy the ocean! I love it too so I understand the joy it brought you!
Crankin - I've been saying for years that HGTV is wrecking the home market, everyone thinks they need an open concept floorplan and quartz or granite counters, even first timers who have little money. It's certainly skewing the idea of what a home is supposed to be, not a place to live, but a showplace for entertaining.
Emily - that's cool about your house, I've read the China Study, cool that you've met them.
That's us too. I am sorry they didn't come back, darn it. Hope something just came up, or else they decided they didn't need to go back through since they were ready to make an offer!Quote:
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Glad you're feeling better!
I totally agree. I am amazed by the shows where people with small budgets and buying their first home expect granite, hardwoods, etc. Our first house had carpet, vinyl floors in kitchens and baths, and laminate countertops, and I was THRILLED. I was just so excited to be getting into a house with a yard and garage. Times have changed so much.Quote:
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OTOH, I do appreciate HGTV, as it's really helped me hone in on what I like and don't like, and introduce me to so many places I knew nothing about, especially the international shows. I eat that stuff up, and it's funny, too, since we aren't even homeowners any more and don't really have a home base other than for short-term.
DebSP - I'm so very sorry for the loss of your grandchild. Take good care.
Pax - ocean, yay!
Crankin - I wouldn't read too much into their not coming back, hope you do hear back from them. Fingers crossed.
Fall is here. Brought in my remaining green tomatoes and peppers two days ago ahead of our first frost. It's a beautiful day for running though, even if it's the first time I'd run in sub-freezing temperatures for almost a year.
Well, when I bought my first house, there were no granite counters, stainless, and most hardwood was covered! Even my second house in Tempe, in a very nice neighborhood, had dark wood cabinets, sheet vinyl, and all wall to wall carpets. The home I grew up in, had beautiful hardwood underneath all of the carpets.
My house has all of the bells and whistles. It's not that. It's more like if there is one thing people don't like, they can't see past that, no matter how small. People can't imagine how they might change things. As I carried on about, the house is staged, in that, it's all my own furniture, but a lot less of it than was there. It's pretty easy now to see the bones of the house.
Our agent said it's super slow everywhere, even at good price points. Our house is at the lower end of the mid price range in my town. The average price here is about 1.2 million and we're nicely below that! The fact that people come and look, who are downsizing is crazy. It's all on line, so when they say it's too big, or too many stairs, they could have seen that and not wasted anyone's time.
Yep, I'm sure it's just the market. From what you've said about your house in this post and others, I am sure it's gorgeous. But you can't please everyone, and when there is a limited pool of buyers, it's even more difficult. Still crossing fingers for you!Quote:
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You nailed it, people seem to know so little about how things are done they cannot understand changes are completely doable. When we toured our place down here both Mary and the realtor were just not sure about it, but I could see (contractors daughter with hundreds of hours working jobsites with dad) all the little things that were wrong were easy fixes. Since the 50 other people who toured the place over the previous six months couldn't see that, we got a screaming deal on the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin