[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

[Molly Wolfmama]

I'll take prayers for a house sale too, although compared to Marion's, my lot is easy.

Molly

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

> On May 6, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Molly.  That is my fervent prayer!  Meanwhile, it is a great relief to off-load here periodically and have a swing in the golden hammock.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
>> On 5/5/2015 11:28 PM, Molly Wolf wrote:
>> 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
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