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Our home has been on the market since August, 2009. We have had a lot of traffic through here since then. Our realtor is waiting with baited breath for an offer. We have reduced the price twice coming down $23,000 from the original listing price. Every time someone wants to look at our house we have to get it “show ready” and vacate the premises. This week, a realtor brought a client in to look. The client was interested enough to want to see the attic. He pulled down the overhead attic door and the ladder came flying out, hitting him in the head. Geez. Hopefully, no serious damage was done. If we had been here, we would have opened the attic door. In any event, if he was at all interested, that more than likely, put the kibosh on everything. We have lived with it all these years knowing how it operates but now we have to adjust it so that it is safe for anyone to open. Our realtor tells us if one thing is wrong, buyers are going to wonder what else is wrong. Oh my God! Then go find a perfect house.
That client’s feedback was, “Nice home, but attic door needs to be fixed.”
With all the snow we’ve been having, I was more concerned that someone would slip and fall. There is not one patch of ice or snow anywhere on the driveway or stairs. Then this happens. What else can go wrong? You just can’t anticipate everything.
No, you can't anticipate everything. But in this horrible situation, it is so easy to think, "If only..." recalling every mistake, everything we've done in our lives that we didn't do perfectly, every little thing that we might have overlooked.
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So true. "If only" is so fruitless. I agree. We should not be so hard on ourselves in such an imperfect world.
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