Buh-bye...

That is me saying good bye to another potential buyer!!  Hahahahha, the last guy that kept stopping by without calling the realtor called tonight to tell us that he is renting another house.  Ryan thought it was courteous of the guy to let us know.  Me???  I said uhmmmmmm thanks for the news flash captain obvious.....

 

 Like I really thought that cat was going to come back with a pre-approval letter.  Once I got in touch with our realtor and let him know the scoop he said there was probably WAY more to that guy's story than we would EVER care to know!  So....onto bigger and better buyers :D

Remember that whole blue light special thing??????

 

Yep we just re-signed with our realtor and dropped the price to $154,900.  I hope somebody is prepared to make a full price offer cuz that is as low as we can go!!! Ugghhhhhh, oh well I have a good feeling about this.  Oh and Doug (our realtor) came out and took some new summer pictures of the outside of the house.  Hopefully it will drum up some business.  Wait....maybe THIS will drum up some business!!

Just sayin'.......

Well there ya have it.  These are the days of my life :P   My mamacita thinks we should rearrange the living room to make it look bigger.  Looks like me and Grandma Peg are gonna bust out the sliders on Monday and move some furniture!!!!

Do we attract bizarre situations or what???

Hahaha yeah I think we are some sort of odd situation magnets!!!  Before I get to the deets I just have to confirm for Katie that I did indeed get some Costco flowers for tonight...

Ok, ok so I spent lots of time this weekend getting the house ready and when he showed up tonight he didn't even bring his wife.  As a matter of fact he didn't even go any further than the breezeway!!  Hey, if nothing else my house is super sparkling and ready for the week.  Onto the situation.  He said he really wants the house but is just starting this new job and is worried he won't get financing.  He wants to do a lease for 6 months paying the full house payment and then get the mortgage in 6 months because he think he is more likely to get approved then!!  Uhhhhmmmm does he really think 6 months is going to make a difference?  He said he was at his last job for 11 years (that job was a conractor for Columbia Gas) and now he is working directly for Columbia Gas.  Ryan and I were both very honest and said that we didn't think 6 months would be that much different from now.  At least that is my theory.  He hasn't even tried to get pre-approved.  Uhhmmm hello dude do you not know that you can do all this stuff over the phone and in no time at all???  Why would he not even attempt to get approved now?  The makes me kind of leary but maybe he is just cluelss...not sure which!!  We told him we would talk about the lease thing but really WANT to do the mortgage .  Hopefully he gets his shizz together and calls his bank.  We'll see what happens......
I gotta say I really don't think we would even THINK about the lease so hopefully he miraculously calls us and says that he has been pre-approved.  He said he didn't want to bring his wife and get her hopes up if we couldn't work something out!  So there it stands.  Why can't we just get somebody with no weird baggage to show up with a full price offer???  Ahhhhhhh a girl can dream!!

 Well whatevs....I think we are going to drop the price to $154,900 and that is AS LOW AS WE CAN GO!!  This is our last attempt.  I sure hope this works.  Blue light special in aisle 3.....

Finally I have to give a special shout out to my baby girl who is celebrating her 11th birthday today!!!  Wow, where does the time go???  It really freaks me out that I have an 11 year old!!  She is my little princess.  Here she is rockin' the iPod that Ryan, Jake and I got her!!  Man she sure is cute....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA JEAN!!!!!

Is that all???

Ok, so I don't really have anything earth shattering tonight!!  I do but I really can't say too much!!  So, that being said, I really do feel like the stars are aligning!!  I do believe that things happen for a reason...and things are going to start happening :)



So check back and I will let you in on the scoop as I can!!  Keep doing those house selling dances for us!!!!

Could St. Joseph work his magic THAT quick????

Things that make ya go hmmmmmmmmmm!!!  Yeah you read that title right!!!  What an interesting night.  Ryan was outside tonight after dinner and a guy pulled in the driveway in a mini-van....I just figured he was asking directions.  Next thing you know Ryan comes blowing in the house asking for his barn keys and tells me that the guy outside REALLY wants to see the house and NOW!!!  All I was thinking was, whew good thing I did some work on the house this evening!!
Don't get me wrong, the house wasn't anywhere near perfect like it would be if I had staged it but it was good enough ( I guess).
Anywho, the guy said he really liked it and the barn sold it for him.  However, as any husband would say, he needs the wife's approval.  They live in Frankenmuth (to my bff's:  I hope he didn't see that sign in Frankenmuth with all our pictures on it about the fact that we aren't allowed back there :P) and they
need to relocate closer to Toledo soon!!  Needless to say I think my new bff St. Joseph is sending the vibes our way!!!  He said he is sold but doesn't want to commit to anything until he talks with his wife.  Soooooooo, *fingers crossed* that she likes the house as much.  He is going to bring her and their kids down this weekend!!
Hey, at least that will give me time to stage the house perfectly for his wife to inspect. 

In the mean time I will keep my fingers crossed and I will be having dreams of this tonight:



I expect each and everyone of you reading this to stand up and do a "sell Ryan and Mindy's house dance".  Oh and I also dare you to post pictures of you doing that exact dance in my comments!!!!  Come on......live a little!!!

I can't believe I forgot!!

We went out to the property on Sunday and I totally forgot to share the pictures of Jake's tree we planted.  As I told you before, Jake got a teeny, tiny sprig of a pine tree from his agricultural field trip day in May.  We took it out to the property and much to our surprise that thing has been growing like crazy!!  Check it out.....

Can you see it right there in the center???  Isn't it so stinkin' cute???  Ryan wanted to go out there and put some fertilizer on it and a metal steak so the farmer wouldn't run it over.  Jake was pretty proud of it too!!

I think my little precious Emma was even proud of it.  Here is Ryan in action....driving the stake and putting the fertilizer on the tree!!

He is such a good helper!!  So the field is planted and the St. Joseph statue is buried so I hope Pam and Doug are ready for the phone to ring off the hook!!!