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Misadventures in Real Estate: Part 6-In Spite Of Misadventures, We Have Much To Be Thankful For

Realtors tend to impart their wisdom with a cache of axioms that, when selling your house, you wish weren’t true.

Misadventures in Real Estate: Part 5 – Deal or No Deal

We spend a sleepless night wondering what went wrong. Can they call off the sale after the contract is signed? Why don’t they want the house suddenly? Can our realtor save the deal?

Misadventures in Real Estate: Part 4 – The Realtor Cam, Oh Yes I Did!

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that potential buyers want to look in your pantry and kitchen cabinets. Maybe I was a little curious as to why they looked in the refrigerator. Open houses are the best for observing what happens when the cage door springs open, and little creatures are set loose upon your home.

Misadventures in Real Estate: Part 3 – Selling Your House Is Emotional

When our realtor told us that selling your home is ’emotional’ I wasn’t quite sure what she meant. Did she think we would feel sad and sentimental about leaving the place we called home for 17 years? I came to realize that the emotions to which she was referring weren’t at all related to nostalgia.

Misadventures in Real Estate: Part 2-Don’t Bet On The Weather

Although our FSBO on Zillow didn’t unearth any interested buyers, it did yield a bevy of realtors from which to choose. By January we were worn down by their relentless affability and picked one to list our house.

Misadventures in Real Estate: Part 1 – Nature Abhors A Vacuum

The fog that clouded my ability to see the funny in any given situation is beginning to lift. In the throes of my real estate debacle, I wasn’t able to laugh at the absurd. Weeks after the closing, I was still suffering from post-traumatic stress; but with the passage of time, my perception of the ridiculousness of events morphs from nightmarish to dark comedy as I feel my old self returning.

From the Age of Innocence to the Age of Invisibility

Youth doesn’t disappear overnight, but in increments so small that you don’t even notice it’s leaving until someone else points it out.

Evacuation

While all-day news coverage of Irma is creating panic over the intensity of the storm and destruction in the Caribbean, the station’s weather reporter stands in a street in Puerto Rico with torrents of rain soaking his waterproof suit and bracing against the wind to keep from being blown away.

Our House Has Abandonment Issues

At about the turn of the millennium, we had job opportunities in a different state and began talking about the possibility of moving. In making our house a home, we put a lot of love and care into it and it made me sad to think about leaving it. But the more we talked aboutContinueContinue reading “Our House Has Abandonment Issues”