Hey y'all - TGIF.
How are ya!
We're good - very, VERY GOOD! (I'll get into that in a minute.)
Our brick masons got done Thursday morning! Hurray!!! They actually got done with the front wall Wednesday and then Thur morning finished up all the window sills.
So Thur and Fri morning I've been leaving 2 hours early and getting to the house just as it gets bright enough outside to see and I've been picking up broken, cut, and partial bricks and hauling them in the wheelbarrow over to a 'brick pile.' (Gotta get them cleaned up out of the 'yard' before final grading so if we ever do landscaping - we won't have to dig up bricks to put stuff in! *GRIN*) The catch is for the last two days it's been raining, raining and and RAINING. So I've been doing what I can - completely soaked - then change in the house and hop in the car and head to work on time. Haven't gotten it all done yet - but Sunday, hopefully, we'll get it finished up.
Last Monday and Tuesday our carpet was supposed to be put in, but thankfully when it showed up at Lowes - it had 3 huge holes in it - so they had to send it back! Hopefully it'll get done by Wed this week! I'm thankful it didn't get put in because of ALL the rain, the contractors finalizing stuff inside have tracked mud, red mud, everywhere. It would have gotten EVERYWHERE and been a pain to clean up. So I know I may have 'complained' at the time - but now I'm thankful!
By the way - The plumbing is DONE, just waiting for the inspection, the electrical is DONE, just waiting for the inspection, the building is DONE, just waiting for the inspection (And carpet! He, he, he), and the mechanical (Heating & A/C) is all but done. Just waiting for the 'rain' to let up to place the 'compressor' in the back. :) Then we're just waiting for our excavator to do the final grading of the dirt and prep the ground for sidewalks and bring in the gravel for the driveway. The One final thing we've gotta get done is the deck on the back. That's ALL! We've come a LONG way baby!
So we're hoping - weather permitting - to get most of that stuff wrapped up this week and we're really, REALLY hoping to be able to move Sunday April 10. Actually we NEED to move on April 10. It really is a MUST to move on April 10... because today our house sold. PRAISE THE LORD.
That's right - last night Doreen got a call from our Realtor that our home was going to be shown about 1 today. (It was the first time it's been shown since we listed it March 1) So among everything else we had going on - Doreen got the house lookin very, VERY good. So I went to work and then met Doreen and the girls at the church in the afternoon to clean it. On the way home, 3 minutes from it in fact - the realtor calls and says the people who saw our house want to make a 'CASH' offer $9,000 under what we were asking. So we talk numbers for a few minutes then we turn on our road and I pull over and Doreen pulls up next to me - and I pop out of the pick-up and run to her window and while I'm on phone we discuss numbers and we then make a counter offer. We run home - drop off the pick up and back into the van (Where our girls are thankfully spending a few moments in 'la-la-la, sandman land') and head to Vonore for haircuts for Joelle and me.
The realtor calls again for some more negotiation and really the only change is she forgot to tell me the 'buyers' would like to have our corner curio cabinet in the kitchen. We agree as long as they accept our counter offer and 3 minutes later we're in her office - sign the paperwork to begin the process, (The buyers signed and were satisfied so we close April 18) we talk for a few minutes - then off to get the haircut I've been trying to get for about 3 weeks. (I look like the shaggy-DA, he, he, he!)
Can you believe how that came together? Me either! :) Can you believe our house is sold? Me either!! :) Can you believe how good God's timing is? Now that I look at it, I can. I just need to learn to have that 'faith' as I look ahead and not see how things are going to come together.
We'll be about $1,250 short of what we owe on our home. We'll have about $250 in closing costs - so we're going to have to rob a bank for about $1,500 to make this all happen - but, Lord willing - we'll get 'er done!!! (BTW - That's a JOKE FOLKS - we're not gonna rob a bank. He, he, he)
Oh by the way, one reason we MUST move on the 10th - is because we have some other friends, he works the same place I do - and this morning, about 4 hours before we did, sold their house under just about exactly the same circumstances. Their house had been listed 40 days before it was ever shown, they got a cash offer yesterday, countered yesterday evening and this morning the offer was accepted and so they sold also!!! Can you believe it? So they're moving April 17. (They close the 18th as well!)
Pray for us - we have MUCH, MUCH, MUCH to accomplish in the next week!
By the way - this is NO April's Fools. I would not 'Fool' about this. This is just a HUGE blessing!!!
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I am so happy for you all. Iknow how much of a drag it can be to have to move adn be stuck with a house that is'nt sold. We had one in Battle Creek for six years after we moved. The Lord is good.
Pop
Man, you guys said it. I had 'visions' of Battle Creek passing through my head! Also the situation with our Illinois home. (We're holding the note on that one!) :)
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