Oh, we've never had a problem selling a house either (even our NC house we sold in 2008 as the market was slumping) but that's partly because we know how to price, prep and stage a house. Doing so on a working farm with 4 animals tracking mud in on an hourly basis was going to be nearly impossible, so this was our only choice.

Luckily, we bought a new house WELL below our comfort level in terms of cost so that we could afford two mortgages for awhile should it come to that. Our original plan was not to take 4 months to prep the place for sale but we kind of over-estimated how much we could get done on it considering we only have weekends in which to do it. I anticipate a quick sale once we do list it though.