For Sale

Make AT&T Your First Home Improvement. Maybe they heard our realtor say, “I’ll sell this house in a week,” and figured the new home owners would be moved in by now. Sorry folks, I think the arrival timing of this piece of junk mail was JUST OK.

This is not the first bit of junk mail that has graced our mailbox since the house was listed for sale either. Within three days of the sign being planted in the front lawn, and for about the following week, we were inundated with postcards and short letters for other local realtors (even some from the same agency as ours was from) asking if we needed help selling our home. The only reason I can think of for this is that they were planting a seed in case the place didn’t sell during the duration of our current contract.

A person we had met at the Spring Steeplechase wanted to see it the weekend before it went on the market. She was looking for a place in this neighborhood and wanted to get in it because every time she noticed a house for sale around here it sold before she could get in it.

Our realtor said that it would sell in a week.

Our across the street neighbor said, “You’ll have no trouble selling it.

A random neighbor we really don’t know well, saw us outside a couple weeks ago and said, “I’m surprised. I expected a Under Contract sign by now.”

As of last Thursday the house has been for sale for a month. In that month we have had less than 10 people come through to look at it. Our realtor held a Realtor Only open house and maybe 10 folks showed up (all from her company…) and no one has of yet stepped forward big sacks of cash.

While having dinner with some friends, who coincidentally have their house for sale too, they mentioned that they had ordered a statue of Saint Joseph from Amazon to help them sell their house. Donna and my response was, “Huh?” Turns out this is a whole thing.

St. Joseph and Home Sales

Of course their house has been for sale for 3 months and they have reduced the price a couple of times, so they might be getting a more anxious than we are. I’ll let you know in late October if we buy our own statue of Saint Joe.