Fall has come to Portland....and we're still here!! I've lowered the price on the house and we continue to have showings. It's crazy, people are so afraid of making an offer!! I don't ever remember it being like this when I have bought houses in the past so it's very hard for me to understand what's going on! I am currently off work and today was supposed to be Forrest's last day - but unfortunatly or fortunatly (depending on how you look at it) he had to push out his last day because our last buyer didn't pan out. We would have been moving next week.

 I try to be patient but it's hard!!

Even though I am pouting and having a hard time with this stupid market I have taken time to look around and enjoy the beautiful fall colors in our neighborhood. I will need to get out pretty soon and start raking leaves... for the last year - I hope!

It's Been a Bit of a Rollercoaster!!

It's been awhile since I wrote but things have been a little crazy around here!!  I think we're all ready to move now!  


It started with us taking advice from my parents,,, "you need to bury a St. Joseph's statue in front of your house!" and because I always listen to my parent's sage advice we buried the statue in the front yard.  One week later we had two offers!! 

The first offer was for 24k lower than our asking price to which I said a very firm "NO" to!   The 2nd offer was for 10k less but we countered and the final price was a mere 4k from our asking price and we were happy.  

Chicago here we come!!  Right?  WRONG!

They had an inspection of our property and nothing glaring was wrong. Then we had a tank sweep and a radon test (our levels turned out to be low - which is good!).  

While this was all happening my project ended and therefore my job ended. Typical for the jobs I've been getting in the past couple years - you just never know when the project is going to end abruptly.  This is one reason that we are moving to a bigger city.  Better job opportunities - hopefully!

Because I now had the time, I started packing things up for our move.  I was in the garage at this time when a guy stopped by and asked if we were having an open house.  I explained the situation - that we had a buyer and I was packing.  He was very disappointed because our house reminded him so much of the house he just sold in Denver.  He gave me his number and said he'd like to make a "backup" offer. I told him to call my Realtor and get an offer down on paper. Which he actually ended up doing....

Meanwhile - we weren't getting the final report for the inspection that the buyers had done and we were wondering what the hold up was.  Well, they ended up backing out. But lucky for us the backup offer was a full price cash offer!

So... we keep moving ahead with Nik - the new buyer.  I think he's a better fit for our neighbors.  He's a sculptor and he loves the rain!  Go figure!! :-)

Yay Chicago!!  Dang we gotta get there before the snow hits!!

So, hopefully we'll be moving on 10/27. We have a lot of friends to say good-bye too and  a short amount of time to do so.  Let's hope we have smooth sailing from this point forward!!!