[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

[Molly Wolf]

It's hard enough to sell a house, and harder still to do a massive downsize WITH renovations, and then with all the emotional load... May you come through these murky turbulent waters into a  pool of clarity and peace.

Hugs,
Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On May 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Suzie.  You're quite right about the deeper griefs.  Boy oh boy.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
>> On 5/5/2015 9:27 PM, Suzie Buchanan wrote:
>> Marion -
>> You have been much in my prayers.  I grieve the loss of a house.  You carry
>> so much more, and deeper, griefs through all of this craziness you face.
>> 
>> love and blessings
>> Susan
>> 
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Nightmare central up here.  The house is turned inside out and upside down
>>> with the painter plastering and painting and moving about in a handyman
>>> way, but with still much to do.  We extended the process by a week, but I'm
>>> not confident.  This Friday is 'Coming soon' sign and next Friday 'For
>>> Sale'.  Jim is coming tomorrow to help for a couple of days, especially
>>> with moving some big furniture into the pod to satisfy the agent (!) but is
>>> unavailable next week.
>>> 
>>> People keep viewing the pod, now holding lots of book cases and lots of
>>> stuff from the garage as a very temporary storage, whereas I know it will
>>> vanish for many months or who knows how long.  So where do I keep the boxes
>>> I need to keep close at hand?  And what of the mountain of boxes and
>>> pictures that Jim has taken to a locked shed at his place?
>>> 
>>> I took 11 x 1.3cu ft boxes down to the Trinity Book Sale, being mainly
>>> much of my theology, not all, but much.  Dangerously close to tears as they
>>> offloaded them -- complaining all the way that they weren't in 1 cu ft
>>> boxes.  The main fellow did remember to thank me almost as an afterthought.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, good luck to us all!
>>> 
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 5/5/2015 8:20 PM, Judy Fleener wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> waiting fir that to happen here....Judy
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Suzie Buchanan <buchanan.suzie at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  I'm one of the in-good-company here at the Pub who are either selling or
>>>>> buying or trying to do one of those things.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We moved from New Hampshire to Virginia late last August, and finally
>>>>> today
>>>>> I was able to accept an offer on the house I've been trying to sell up
>>>>> there.  It really seems to help to have some snow melted away!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a very definite grief about this - - I have loved my "tree house"
>>>>> in
>>>>> New Hampshire so much.  But I am in no financial position to be able to
>>>>> afford to keep a home up there while making a home here in Virginia.  So
>>>>> I
>>>>> am very happy about selling this house, even while I'm very sad about it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So please pray - that the home inspection and buyer financing both go ok,
>>>>> so we can be cleared to move to closing on July 10.
>>>>> 
>>>>> blessings
>>>>> suzie
>