First, the Good News
Friday, October 26th, 2007Melvin called me this afternoon to inform me that we received an offer for our apartment - THE FIRST DAY THAT IT WAS LISTED! That’s wonderful news considering the current real estate and mortgage mess. I was so sure it would stay on the market for at least 3 months.
We bought Rockglen (we affectionately call her that after the street it’s located) in December 2001 for, at the time, to us, a lot of money. Today, the buyer is willing to pay it’s list price, which is almost double what we paid.
I’m stunned, really. Not because someone wants to buy our property at the price we want or that it looks like it’s going to go at record time (the previous owner had Rockglen on the market for almost 6 months), but because it looks like this is really going to happen.
This is all so abrupt. We only made the decision to sell 2 weeks ago, and now, we’re talking inspection already.
All in all, this is good news. It’s good news because Avery is here now and he needs all of our time.
We tried managing our marriage, our careers, our finances and Rockglen for a couple of years and the result was nothing short of a disaster. All of those areas took a hit because we were running ourselves ragged trying to manage it all. It simply didn’t work. When Avery came, we knew the madness had to stop. Something had to give.
It looks like it’s going to be Rockglen.