The lead story on CNN is about the tornado that touched down yesterday evening in Stoughton, just outside Madison.
Oh, how well I know that storm! It was one of the rare times where I could not seek shelter during a warning. Between the house showing and the need to get down to the loft a.s.a.p., I just could not do it. And so I rode it out, plowing my van through the torrential rains.
Nothing happened here on the west side of Madison. Or, nothing bad happened. In the course of the tornado, a family with two little children purchased our house.
I was sitting in the van, watching the children of the prospective buyers run around the front yard just minutes before the storm struck. I thought -- how perfect! My neighbors had been arguing over the gender of the next kids on the block: there was a strong lobby for more girls. But the boys wanted playmates too. In the end, each will get one.
Me -- I just want to say that selling this house has been one huge nightmare. The sale isn't final yet, but it's a solid offer. The storm chased off a period of high uncertainty. How fitting that it should have cleared the air so violently, so completely.
4 hours ago
Holy crap, an offer! That's just great. Hope it all works out.
ReplyDeleteI hope all goes smoothly with the sale of the house from here on out. Having a house on the market is not just "a" stress, it's so many different stresses -- keeping up the house, working your schedule around showings, worrying about how you've priced it, etc etc. It will be so wonderful for you to let go of all that and just be!
ReplyDeleteAs for the tornado, we get small twisters up in Scottsdale (north of me) that touch down from time to time, but I've never heard of any damage. I would not willingly live in an area that gets tornados. I'm freaked out enough by the dust storms that blow through here. I hope that recovery up in Wisconsin comes quickly.
Thanks, all. It's what they call a clean offer -- just subject to inspection (oh please, inspector, do NOT find anything; the palce is fine, just let it go!) -- so it should sail through. And the new owners want it pretty quickly. Yay new owners with little kids. My daughters are imagining already the life they will build here. This house is meant for a family. It's not a one-person place, for God's sake!
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