I haven’t posted for awhile, mostly because I couldn’t get the password to reset on my blog account. Finally fixed that. Now for an update.
House is still on the market. No nibbles. There is a family of 10 (parents, 8 kids) who are very interested, but haven’t been able to sell their house either. I hate that domino effect: we’ll buy your house when ours gets sold… the market is as bad for them as for us. Our realtor’s contract is up on Thursday, and we won’t be re-signing with him. I don’t feel like he has made us a priority. He’s only brought through about 4 clients of his own, all the others have been with other realtors. He doesn’t always call to let me know someone is coming to look at the house, so I have a chance to tidy up. I also don’t think he has been at this real estate business that long, so he doesn’t really know what to do in the market as it is now. We are hoping for things to look up after the first of the year.
As for the construction on the new house, the framing is finished and the roof is on. Ray has contracted for the windows and they will be going in later this month. We are looking for a front door. It looks great. I will try to post some pix if I can remember to take the camera down with me the next time I go down. Ray has been in the process of wrapping the house in Tyvek paper to protect the exposed wood from the elements, especially through the winter.
We have finally sold our 5.25 acre parcel, so that money will be a big help to move things along a bit.
Ray told me the other day that if we had had the money up front, our house could have been sheetrocked by now. DANG! He knows this because there is another house under construction across the street from us who started at the same time, but now is sheetrocked. I don’t want to hear about it…!
Ah well, there is a reason we are still supposed to be here. Wish I knew what it was so I would know how much longer we have. Just have to sit tight and be patient.
