Showing posts with label home sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home sale. Show all posts

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Dear God.... Please upate our life plan!

I only wish that His idea of our life plan matched mine!
Mine would have had our house sold three years ago when we first tried selling it, and we'd be out away from neighbors with lots of land, a big yard and an awesome house for parties and entertaining.
Present day: our house is STILL for sale and has been for the better part of three years, give or take a few months here and there. I hate it! It's really not that bad of a house, only it has train tracks in the backyard and no basement. Otherwise, nothing needs replacing and it's certainly not sucking any of our money for fixes.
The reason this is forward in my mind-- well, more than usually, is that we have a showing tomorrow. We haven't had one for 3 months. So, there's a slight glimmer of hope that the right person will be walking through our front door tomorrow and will make us an offer that we can financially accept.
I want God to change the plan He has mapped for us and have a buyer walk through tomorrow and make us an offer! But, I'm not holding my breath.
I really have nothing to complain about because our house payments are good and we've been able to put aside money for other things, but my drive to and from work is pretty much wearing me down. I HATE driving by Friday and when I get home, all I want to do is hibernate and get things done around the house. I hate the thought of driving to the cities or anywhere far over the weekend, and I'm sure my car also hates the thought. I do trade my car for the Malibu once in a while, but both cars are racking up the miles pretty  fast. My car is close to 70,000 miles!!!! I bought it 18 months ago with 30,000 miles. And, that's not even driving it every day!
I also feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes, seriously. I feel like I'm never home, and when I'm home I'm scrambling to help others with projects or working on my own things that need to get done, all housework aside. I forget to pay bills, and that's what make me the most mad. They're reoccurring monthly, have the same due date, but I fail to remember that, and I get reminders in the mail or late fees. UGH! It's happened a few times in the last few months. Granted, summer is extremely busy, but that's no excuse. I blame it on not wanting to sit down at the computer once I get home for the night. I blame it on me having Alzheimer's. I also blame it on the mail carrier for not delivering my mail to me. Sad, I know. I'm kidding about the Alzheimer's thing-- maybe. I'm getting a HORRIBLE memory. It's strange. I used to be able to remember the littlest, insignificant things, and now I forget almost anything I need to remember. I've gotten so far off track, it's hard to recover, or maybe I should say I've forgotten why I started writing! haha! I need a personal assistant.
Anyway, I just wanted to jot down a reminder to God that my and Mike's life plan needs a little tweaking. I'm not getting any younger, after all.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

So close-- yet so far

WE GOT AN OFFER ON OUR HOUSE YESTERDAY!!! I've been waiting over three years for this to happen! I took the day off of work yesterday, and Miike also happened to have the day off, so we went shopping and got my car serviced and took care of other random things that we both don't have time to do otherwise.
Back to the offer-- our realtor called me and said that we had an offer, only the number wasn't what we were expecting. A full $24,000 below our asking price or about 18% below. Pretty insulting. So we countered, and heard back late lastnight that the man countered our counter offer and we just put in another counter offer this morning. So, most of yesterday afternoon I was fidgeting and biting my nails and pacing-- just waiting to hear that I could start packing my boxes. Now, we'll have to wait another couple hours or day or two just to hear back again. Ugh. I'm sure he won't like out counter-counter-counter offer (does that exist?!), but it is the absolute lowest we can possibly go. At this price we have to bring in about $15,000 of our own money just to get out of this house! AWWW! Scary. Then we'd have to build up savings for a down payment and then tackle buying a new house. It's such a depressing situation to lose sooooo much money on a house. The only thing that makes us feel good about doing that is how much we'd make up on the other end. Buying so much more house for not so much $$$$.
We're soooooo close-- yet so far away because there's a number that this guy is looking for and we have no idea what it is, and if/when he walks away all my hopes of selling our house vanish-- just like that. We've never gotten an offer on our house, and to be so close to selling it gives me anxiety because I want out!!!!! I want to buy a new house away from neighbors and streets and lights (can you tell I'm a country girl??!) and closer to work.
Everything happens for a reason, right? So, this will work out as God intended. I'm just hoping I agree with His way.
Crossing my fingers and toes and whatever else brings us tons of luck!