This is my quandry.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I agree with Anna, Richard. Take time for yourself for a change. Rest well!!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

For sure!!! If you are sitting on your own head, a little R&R is in order!!!

[RICHARD]

LOl,

I meant that I put them on my head, they fall off when I go to sit down and THEN I sit on them.

IF if I do sit on my head, I see life the way Wom see it.

[wombat2u2004]

IF if I do sit on my head, I see life the way Wom see it.

It's got it's advantages mate.
All of our women wear skirts.
So being upside down is a mans paradise here.

[jennielynn1970]

Keeping you in my thoughts, Richard. I was very close to foreclosing about a year back, so I know how it feels to lose/almost lose your house. I thankfully got help from my parents, so I am still in my house, but I know that disaster can be around the corner for me and my lack of budgeting.

I know your issue is not like mine, but I know the feeling of losing my house.

[RICHARD]

Thanks everyone.

I have been kinda busy, Most of the hard work is done.

I just need time to do it.
Otherwise? Everything is pretty much quiet on the Western Front?

[RICHARD]

A little update?

The house still has not been sold.

Another buyer put a bid in...Good, but now?

There are people that come to the gate and look at the house.

At first? I went out to tell them that the house was to have been sold at the auction.....But, I do that at the risk of not getting more people to make a post auction bid.

So, I decided to ignore them after this incident.

I heard someone at the gate and looked out the window to see a man trying to get into the yard.

This was on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. I was getting ready to jump into the shower because a friend was going to take me out for my B-day.


I tell the guy that the house may be sold and he stops me to tell me that he is a real estate agent and wants to show the house for a potential buyer.

I told him I could not do it at this moment, but I could let him in on the following Satuday......Name the time.

THe said he was meeting the clients at 4 p.m. and wanted to do it today. I sair, 'no' and he persisted.

He handed me his card and mentioned that he knew my dad. He thought that maybe that would sway me. He also told me that selling the house this way would make me more money thru the court.

I told him, "nope" again and he went away a little ticked.

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I was ticked off.

First of all, I do not remember this guy and IF he knew my dad, He hadn't spoke to him in YEARS.


So, all of a sudden he shows up with the hope of a little money to be made?

I was very irritated about the pushy-ness that this guy and the attitude-he wanted to show the house NOW.

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Two days ago a woman and a small child were at the fence and I heard the little girl yell, "I don't like this house..." \


I was tempted to yell, THE HOUSE DON'T LIKE YOU!!!!
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[smokey the elder]

I would have said, "I didn't buy it for YOU!"

[momoffuzzyfaces]

You should have told that agent that only the courts have the authority to sell the house and who to, because of the litigation over the property rights.

[cassiesmom]

I heard someone at the gate and looked out the window to see a man trying to get into the yard.

This was on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. I was getting ready to jump into the shower because a friend was going to take me out for my B-day.

I tell the guy that the house may be sold and he stops me to tell me that he is a real estate agent and wants to show the house for a potential buyer.

I told him I could not do it at this moment, but I could let him in on the following Satuday......Name the time.

THe said he was meeting the clients at 4 p.m. and wanted to do it today. I sair, 'no' and he persisted.

Isn't there a protocol for agents to follow when they wish to show a seller's house? (i.e., making an appointment with the seller by telephone before stopping by )

[RICHARD]

An update?


I got paperwork in the mail saying that the house was sold.


Sadly, the price at the auction is the price that was taken, but, on the day of court they will see if there is another bid on the house.

As it was explained to me, there will be a second 'auction' on the 17th (the next court date) to allow bidders to make an 'overbid' on the property, so if there is a 'bid war' that will mean the price will go up.


In the days since the auction, I have seen about 7 different people coming to the front gate to see the property, so that may bode well for us.

As of now? I would like to see someone make the over bid. that will give me a few more weeks in the house and more time to clean things out.

I start out with a heavy heart and become distracted at the task at hand.

I marvel at the 'treasures' and things that I have discovered about my parents, family, history and items inside and around the property.

There are times that I look at different places and see things that make me laugh and cringe.


There is the baseball diamond we painted on the asphalt in the back yard.

There is the concrete step with the chip knocked out of it on the back porch and the baseball dent on the siding of the house. There are spots in the yard where some really fun and dumb things have happened...

I think about who will come to live in 'my' house and wonder if they will ever know about all the smiles and heartbreaks this home has seen.


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I would like to see someone make a higher bid on the house.

Not for the money, it's not about making money, somehow I feel a small pang of guilt-I don't think my parents worked so hard to let their investments go for way under the value of the blood, sweat and tears they put into them. I just want a few more days in the house I grew up in.

Half of the sibs wanted to keep the house as an investment. They other half have looked at it as just an opportunity to benefit from the sale.

They say blood is thicker than water?

Not when there is money involved?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I totally understand, Richard. That's why I live in the house I do. It's in the neighborhood I mostly grew up in. My grandmothers former house is right across the alley. I can sit on my back porch and almost see her waving at me from her back door. The house my aunt and uncle and 4 of my cousins lived in is just a block over. I may not be able to go home again, but I got as close as I could.

[lizbud]

I would like to see someone make a higher bid on the house.

Not for the money, it's not about making money, somehow I feel a small pang of guilt-I don't think my parents worked so hard to let their investments go for way under the value of the blood, sweat and tears they put into them. I just want a few more days in the house I grew up in.

Richard, Your parents are long past caring about the house now. They
must have wanted you & your siblings to be happy & cared for while you
were all living there and it sounds like you did have happy times there.

Do you have a new place lined up yet? Moving is hard, I know, but don't
wait until you are forced to do it on somebody else's timetable.You won't
lose the good memories, just pack them up with your stuff before you go.