It has been 21 days since we signed the papers putting the house on the market. Yesterday we had two realtors call and set appoinments to view our home. We left and ran errands during that time. We returned to find out neither realtor had stopped by or called to cancel. Grrrrrr.........
The past couple of days has not been our best. Tuesday we drove to the coast, to Bandon, to sign the papers selling our property over there. We bought it thirty years ago partially with an inheritance I received from my Aunt Hildur. The idea was to build a family beach house on it someday when funds became available. Well, the funds never came and the family vacation home was never built, so with us moving north, it seemed the time to give someone else the opportunity to own it. It probably was the right thing to do but it wasn't easy to say goodbye. We were both bummed about it.
Not having any offers on the Eugene house did not help matters. Our realtor was suggesting that perhaps removing all the furniture out of the house would help it sell, because our furniture is "not modern and follks have trouble seeing their furniture in such a dated environment". Maybe she is right, but it was not a tune I was happy to listen to at the time. More bummer feelings.
Then, to make matters worse, both of our realtors had a discussion and their analysis of the situation was that unless we has an offer on the table for our place, we would not have a strong enough buying position to have an offer accepted in the hot market in Canby/ Oregon City. I emailed our realtor cancelling our trip to view a house up there until something changed.
Yesterday, our realtor called and there is an offer on our house. We are going to find out about it at 11am today, Friday. The buyer's realtor wants to present it to us in person. It is the way it used to be done. I am hoping that it doesn't mean that she is going to try to spring a low ball price on us. If so we are back to square one.
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