[Magdalen] Suggestions, please

[Marion Thompson]

Whitevale is an atypical selling situation and it won't be like the 
white-hot Toronto scene.  There won't be line-ups and it could take 
quite a long time to sell (please God, no!).  This is the sort of place 
that the right person must find.  No wifi, no cable, no natural gas for 
a start.  Some would recoil in horror at the sight of the 'mature 
perennial garden', others the various Lake Marions. Plenty out there 
have no soul and would be calculating how much it would cost to bulldoze 
and sod the garden.  And already the spectre of the building of the new 
town of Seaton all around us is casting a shadow.  The husband yesterday 
morning was concerned about that. Smart man.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/25/2015 3:16 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Libraries and bookstores are good options--can you go to a friend's house?  In this area agents don't want the seller in the house while they're showing it.
> Will the agent be having an "open house" for you? That lets a number of folks come through in an afternoon for an initial viewing and might cut down on the number of times you'd have to be out. Here they're typically held on weekend afternoons.
>
>> On May 25, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So, after the overwhelming chaos and emotional and physical demands of the last two months, the For Sale sign is up and that is just fine.  I am in an almost empty house that echoes and has absolutely no personal stuff like books or pictures and minimal furnishings.  A monastic cell.   In the kitchen are four boxes whose contents would have been on the counter and so forth and for which there is no room otherwise but which need to be at hand, things like the coffee maker, my jars of cereal, cannisters of sugar, flour, etc.  I guess if I leave the taping machine out it'll look like I'm still packing up!
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>> The agent showed some people yesterday while I was off at church. Great!  She popped by this morning to say some people are coming at 7 p.m., this evening   What on earth does one do at such times???  I am delighted that anyone is interested, but what does one do, especially if banished from one's home beyond once or twice?  this is the week I must cobble together a sermon on Trinity, not something I can easily do at McDonald's.
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>> Marion, a pilgrim