Ever notice that when you say some things out loud, you are immediately “put to the test”?

That’s how I feel about yesterday’s blog post. Today, we’re being “put to the test”.

Last week we had a very promising house showing. The ‘buyer’ was VERY interested. Just LOVED the property. Thought about all the things she could do to not just live here, but use the property to it’s fullest potential to bring in income to help with the mortgage as well.

Our property is not just our home, we also have the studio which is actually a ‘suite’ above a separate workshop.

Then we also have a building lot, with septic, electricity, etc. right here as well.

Plus we’re zoned for two homes, two ‘accessory’ buildings.

It all adds up to lots of potential for income. Bed and Breakfast, rental suite, put a rental home onto the building site, etc. etc. etc..

The list goes on with the possibilities.

However, yesterday we received a text from the realtor letting us know this single, newly divorced, prospective ‘buyer’ LOVES the property still, however she finds the home too small.

This isn’t the first time we’ve had this feedback.

From single people.

It’s not difficult to do the math. We are a family of seven.

We live here. We’ve been living here for almost 6 years.

Yes, it’s been tight, and we’ve had to be creative, but we’ve done it because we always wanted land and this was the only land we could afford. A small house on five acres.

Someone said to me a while back that they couldn’t understand why we hadn’t put an addition on the house instead of putting our money into fixing up the studio/workshop.

Well that’s simple. The previous buyer left the property with an open permit which needed to be completed. So that meant any and all excess funds HAD to go to fixing up the cabin and closing that permit.

It’s not like we “enjoy” living in 1200 square feet and putting our money into a studio rather then an addition.

An addition would have been grand.

But, we couldn’t, we still can’t. So we’ve worked with what we have and made the best of it.

It seems though, that we are fairly alone in being willing to make the best of it.

We’ve priced our property as the lowest in our market, because we know the house is small.

Yet a property with just a house, and land, sold for almost 200,000.00 more the other week.

I don’t understand why people can’t do the math? Add an addition for under 100,000.00 to THIS property and you have 5 acres with a larger home AND the building site AND the studio/workshop?

To me, the math is simple.

I must be simple minded.

I guess we need a simple minded buyer.

The best though, is when it’s a single person, or just a couple, who say they are looking for the ‘simple life’. They say they want to ‘downsize’ because they are tired of cleaning a big house. Then they come here, LOVE the property, LOVE all the land, LOVE the money making potential…

and then say the house is too small.

What was that about downsizing??

So once again, we are put to the test. Our most potential buyer thinks the house is too small.
It’s very frustrating, to say the least.

I said yesterday that we won’t give up.

I wasn’t kidding.

As peeved off as I’d like to be right now, as much as I’d love to just throw my hands up in the air and say “FINE!!” and give up…

I AM NOT GOING TO! 

And once again, my family prooves to me that they are not going to either!

We can be the type of people who retreat to themselves when we’re upset. Go our own way. However, this time, we didn’t.

Today, my husband took ELSA to work with him! I’m so proud. 🙂 She’s not the easiest child to take to spend the day with, to WORK with, especially if you’re already feeling frustrated, yet he brought her along today.

SO PROUD.

We’re going to make it. I know we are.

Shaylah and Julia are waiting for me in the sewing studio, cutting out more mitts and cotton balls. As much as THEY would love to just throw THEIR hands up in frustration and say “Enough of this!”, instead, they decided they would spend their time working with their mama today. Such good girls.

So as I said yesterday, we may be frustrated, we may be tired of waiting, and waiting, and waiting, but we’re NOT giving up.

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*As a side note, some have asked if I could put the mls number up for our property, for extra advertising.
Sorry, but I can’t do that. I am very open here on the blog, probably too much so at times, but I can’t put our address out there for anyone and everyone to see. I have to draw the line on doing that. If we didn’t live here while trying to sell, that’d be different. 🙂