[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

[Jay Weigel]

In houses just a little newer (the one I grew up in was built in 1928) you
might find laundry tubs and a place to hang the wash in winter, too!

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> Indeed good luck to them. Our Victorian basement has been modernized -
> part of it it has a cement floor! The rest is the more normal dirt, and the
> older part is just a crawl space. Basements are for the furnace and storing
> your canned goods. Nothing else.    :-)
>
> Chad Wohlers
> East Bridgewater, MA USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Molly Wolfmama
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 10:50 AM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] trying to sell my house
>
> A couple went through here this morning.  They want a Victorian house, but
> one that requires no work.  They don't like my basement, which has low
> (that is, Victorian) head space.  Victorians were shorter than we are.
>
> Good luck to them, I sez.
>
> Molly
> P.S. We have someone from Toronto coming through tomorrow.
>
> 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 10:34 AM, Molly Wolfmama <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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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