Perhaps you can sense a bit of sarcasm in the the title of my blog. We've had our house on the market for about 10 months now and have had very little interest, only a handful of showings. We've been praying and praying and trying to remain patient. Then, yesterday, we had a showing. We had another one today. There is one scheduled for tomorrow. So, whoever it was that started praying for us...keep it up!
This is our third house that we've lived in, so we have experience selling homes and know that it can be a lengthy and painful process. However, the last time we sold, we only had 4 children (with one on the way) and the market was much better. The most trying thing is getting and keeping the house clean right before a showing. The 15 month old pretty much has to be either sleeping or in her high chair, otherwise she's running around the house in destruction mode and undoing everything we just did.
Maybe the most difficult pill to swallow is reading the feedback left by the potential buyers. The couple that came through yesterday didn't like the house because "the home is very personalized and was intimidating to the buyers". What does that even mean? Leave it to my Haley to cut through the crap when she said, "Don't they know we're going to take all of our stuff with us?" Man, that nine year old can really make me chuckle!
So, we keep praying, cleaning and persevering. We truly feel that God is calling us to make this move and know that if it is His will, He can make it happen. It's that whole patience thing all over again! Any prayers would be greatly appreciated.
God Bless!
Heather :-)
Praying for you all! How exciting & challenging. Hang in there...p.s. I think we need a get-together.:) How's everyone feeling?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your prayers - we can definately use them! It's families like yours that we're trying to get closer to, you know! :-)
ReplyDeleteWe're all feeling much better, thanks. I'll get a hold of you next weekend and we'll get something on the calendar.
God Bless!
WE will pray for you. It is a very tough market and being winter and all. When we put our house up, we pre-packed a lot of personal things. I did not like it for whatever reason the broker explained, but I did it if it would help with the sale. My hubs had to take and "hide" his gorgeous buck mounts as to not offend people. When it came to religious items, I refused. They stayed put.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the prayers. I think that the "personal items" are all of our religious things throughout the house. But, my thoughts are, we have to live in the house while it's on the market...so we still need to have it be OUR house during that time. We'll be meeting with our realtor again soon, maybe we'll have to walk through the house again and get some input from her.
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