holy chickens, batman
Sep. 4th, 2003 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxWell, things are a little different from my last post... we may not be selling to that first couple after all, even though they're the ones we like. We've had something like SEVEN OR EIGHT showings today (yeah, I spent the afternoon at Coffee Place) and as soon as I got home, more people started showing up! Right now the latest group is sitting outside trying to come up with a contract. Some people are even making offers over the asking price, I believe, and probably about 80% of people who have seen the place in the last three days have made offers. So basically, in the land of Selling Verbminx's (Late)Childhood Home, things are kind of up in the air right now. I think after the people outside come up with a contract, my mom and I are going to choose which offer to accept for real - and then, thank Bob, no more showings. (I hope.) It's not that it isn't going to sell, it's just that we're not sure who it's going to sell to, or for how much. (I guess it's all up in the air until you've signed a contract.)
Meanwhile, I am EXHAUSTED and in need of QUIET ALONE TIME. I woke up at 7AM and immediately wanted to go back to sleep (didn't happen). I finished reading Abhorsen, took a shower, generally got ready to go out, went out. Sat at Coffee Place working on poor neglected![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
intensefragilty, then went to the new knitting store in town, which actually has some respectable stock in. If I had more money I'd have bought a nice hank of Great Aidirondack's FLUFF yarn; as it was, I walked around petting everything, and talked to the elderly lady who was clerking. Then I went to Staples and bought a bag of packing peanuts, which I desperately need for progress in packing, but which I didn't expect to be so damn expensive ($8? per bag? I thought it was like $3-5!) Then I came home, went to the bathroom, and was surprised by MORE showings - three old ladies, who I showed around the house pretty much myself (having convinced them that the room I'm in right now, which was originally intended as either a dining room or a casual family room, makes a bang-up extension of the somewhat stunted master bedroom suite and, really, is pretty keen to sleep in. and it is. make it into a bedroom and it's the largest bedroom in the house, with the inconvenience of being a pathway to and from FOUR OTHER ROOMS.)
Then my mother couldn't get the dog to get out of the car, so I got the dog out of the car. Then MORE people showed up, the ones who are currently sitting in the driveway haggling their acceptable terms with their realtor. I put the dog back in the car, and the dog and I ran far away... well, no, we took a drive. Now we're back and you can go back to the beginning to find what I'm thinking. AUGH. NEED QUIET AND PRIVACY! NEED TO WIND DOWN!
I will probably never want to be involved in selling another house ever again! it's just nervewracking!
Meanwhile, I am EXHAUSTED and in need of QUIET ALONE TIME. I woke up at 7AM and immediately wanted to go back to sleep (didn't happen). I finished reading Abhorsen, took a shower, generally got ready to go out, went out. Sat at Coffee Place working on poor neglected
intensefragilty, then went to the new knitting store in town, which actually has some respectable stock in. If I had more money I'd have bought a nice hank of Great Aidirondack's FLUFF yarn; as it was, I walked around petting everything, and talked to the elderly lady who was clerking. Then I went to Staples and bought a bag of packing peanuts, which I desperately need for progress in packing, but which I didn't expect to be so damn expensive ($8? per bag? I thought it was like $3-5!) Then I came home, went to the bathroom, and was surprised by MORE showings - three old ladies, who I showed around the house pretty much myself (having convinced them that the room I'm in right now, which was originally intended as either a dining room or a casual family room, makes a bang-up extension of the somewhat stunted master bedroom suite and, really, is pretty keen to sleep in. and it is. make it into a bedroom and it's the largest bedroom in the house, with the inconvenience of being a pathway to and from FOUR OTHER ROOMS.) Then my mother couldn't get the dog to get out of the car, so I got the dog out of the car. Then MORE people showed up, the ones who are currently sitting in the driveway haggling their acceptable terms with their realtor. I put the dog back in the car, and the dog and I ran far away... well, no, we took a drive. Now we're back and you can go back to the beginning to find what I'm thinking. AUGH. NEED QUIET AND PRIVACY! NEED TO WIND DOWN!
I will probably never want to be involved in selling another house ever again! it's just nervewracking!
