Weekend update...

It was a busy weekend.  We had no choice but to regroup after the "no" on our house Thursday night, and regroup we did.  Jim is heavy into the door making business again - these are the closet doors for his office.



Door factory

Then Friday night I got a call that a realtor wanted to bring someone through on Sunday morning from 9:30-10:30.  After inwardly groaning at that time frame, I said sure.  I like to have everything spiffy before people come and Sunday morning is our down time - pecan pancakes, classical music, reading the paper, Jim works on his computer.  But this is business!  So I made sure that the house was clean Saturday and we kept with our routines as much as possible...spaghetti on Saturday night and pancakes in the morning.  Just maybe a little earlier and then scurrying to get everything cleaned up! 

The potential buyer was a gentleman who was relocating from Florida.  After our last interest, I told Jim that I thought the perfect buyer would have one high school student.  And that's what he has!  Well...he has an older one on his own and a daughter in college, but then a 16 year old.  Perfect!  The realtor told us ahead of time that they were kind of on a tight time schedule - in fact, she canceled one appointment while she was here.  But they still spent over a half hour here and both seemed to love it.  Said very nice things all the way through the tour.  The guy works on cars so was especially interested in the pole barn. 

We felt encouraged after he left.  I told Jim to savor all the wonderful comments people say about his craftsmanship, attention to detail, and what a gorgeous home this is.

About an hour later, I got a phone call from this guy that he was done with the realtor and wanted to know if he could come back and spend a little more time going through the house - sure!  This time, he looked at everything and Jim went over lots of details.  He opened every closet, went up in all the attics, asked lots of questions.  He told us that his wife had been up before and they hadn't found anything they like, so she wasn't coming until he found something good.  He said his wife was a quilter and told him she wanted a sewing room.  He also said that she didn't have as many books as I did but not too far off.  (Hmm...check and check!)  He stayed about an hour and a half.

Then it was back to work - Jim was back working on doors and getting the wood ready to start making the bi fold closet doors in my room.  I spent a little time in the afternoon power washing more of the driveway.  We're about 100' short of hose to finish the rest so we may have to hit up a neighbor to get the rest done.  This weekend felt more like fall...temps were in the high 60s.  Strange for late July but okay by me!  Maybe we can recoup some of the air conditioning bills back in June when it was 90 for days on end!

This morning, I got another call from the guy who came through the house yesterday.  He said his wife was coming up this weekend and he wanted to know if we would be available for them to see the house again.  Yes!  So that's exciting news.  We feel like he must be serious about the house in order to bring her up so we are cautiously optimistic.

While I was running errands today, I got a call from a guy who picked up a brochure.  He asked the price and then wanted to know if we would work with a realtor.  I told him yes and he said his realtor would call to make an appointment.  No one has called yet but still, that's encouraging also.

We have another realtor bringing someone through tomorrow evening, so tomorrow I'll spend more time cleaning and getting things ready.  Fingers crossed!