Thanks for joining Laura, and thanks for the info, Cindy. I will pass that along.

Still no word from the potential home buyers. They would have flown home last night. I am choosing to think that he was waiting to get home to be able to determine the exact when where and how to fund this purchase. He has been super chatty and communicative over the past month and we left it that if he didn't choose our house we looked forward to being neighbors. It has been all super friendly. My gut tells me if he decided to get the other house he was looking at he would have told me that right away.

Bottom line, we are in a super Zen place about it. Sell now to this dude, finish some more projects and list it for sale, finish some more projects and stay here for years to come. All good choices.

And I heard from them. They are putting an offer in to buy a larger plot of land and building from scratch. I think the proximity of my back door neighbor bugged them. In prior years you couldn't see the house, but the new owners ripped out the line of palms and now the house is staring down at us. Oh well, on to options B or C.

Well, poop, Laura. I'm sorry it worked out that way.

Yeah, we have decided now we are going to finish a couple projects and list it. A neighbor just did that and put it up on the MLS in a cheap listing deal and sold in 5 days. Inventory is very low right now, and my neighborhood super hot. This current market won't last so we are just going to do it. It would have been nice to have it done, but concrete pouring is in my near future.

Don't you just love it when you and the other person who understand a thing make a proposal to upgrade it, go through all the arguments with the people who don't understand it about why it needs to be done This Way and That Way is simply not an option, then spend all the time doing the upgrade This Way (including using subcontractors), go to implement it and have all the same people asking about doing it That Way so you get to spend your time explaining it all over again? Isn't that The Best?

oh, yes ... I once worked for a woman - we were doing our monthly magazine - and EVERY MONTH I had to explain to her why the number of pages had to be divisible by four

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Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster I've never had to deal with anyone who couldn't grasp THAT in publishing!

oh, yes ... I once worked for a woman - we were doing our monthly magazine - and EVERY MONTH I had to explain to her why the number of pages had to be divisible by four

I remember this.