If you have read our earlier post about getting our house ready to sell, you might have picked up on the fact that we had just a little bit of anxiety about how hard it might be to find a buyer. Real estate here in northwest Florida has been in a slump and some properties have been on the market for six months or more with little interest.
We had been working hard to get things looking good for prospective buyers and finally signed the paperwork Wednesday to list the house with Audrie Palmer, a realtor who is also a member of the Leonard Street church. Thursday was a day not fit for man or beast around here. It was rainy and stormy. Everyone with any sense kept one eye on the skies for possible tornadoes and stayed in as much as possible. I doubt anything was done in real estate that day. Early Friday morning, however, someone put up a "FOR SALE" sign in our yard. Audrie showed up with more papers for us to sign and a lock box for our door so other agents could show the house. We prayed that we might have a buyer within 60 days so there would be a possibility of closing with the new owner before we left for Washington.
God is surely taking care of us! If we needed any more evidence of that, we found it Friday afternoon. Trish came home to find Audrie showing the house to a nice older couple. They have a daughter living in our neighborhood and had been looking for a house near her. They had seen the multiple listing service listing shortly after it went up and called Audrie for an appointment ASAP. They loved the house and neighborhood (we do live on a nice cul-de-sac) and sat down with Audrie at our dining room table to make an offer on the spot. The nice thing is that they are willing to give us til May 25 to close -- that is one day after Jared's graduation. The price is exactly what we had hoped for . . . and the timing could not be more perfect. A final bonus is that it turns out the buyers are members of the church of Christ . . . so they might even be attending with us at Leonard Street. Rejoice with us!
UPDATE: See the March 17 entry to learn about why the sale of our house didn't turn out as well as we expected when this entry was written.
John
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Needless to say, John and Jared and I are VERY excited and happy with the way things are moving along. I feel we are just that much closer to "coming home". We thank God and know that all things are working together for good!
Trish
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