We had another call for a “promising” showing today. We got the call late morning, for a showing at 3:30.
Not the way I like to prepare for showings. It’s not like we just have a house to clean up. There’s so much more.
I had my day all planned already, my work day that is, and as it was, there wasn’t enough time in the day to finish everything. Finish packaging, ship, finish a stack of nursing pads, cotton balls, facial mitts, snap photos of itall, edit photos, list the products in the shop and call it a day.
That wasn’t to be, but I didn’t mind. I want to sell this place!
Three of the girls and I got the house/property ready to show in three hours. That’s almost a record.
For whatever reasons, it’s a no. Again.
No sale today.
Julia said, “I guess strong people have harder tests to go through.”
I told Julia if that’s true, I don’t want to be strong anymore. I’m tired of it.
I think everyone who has sold a house has gone through these small tests. We have sold two houses and had many, many, many showings before they finally sold. I learned to keep the house as if it was always on show (declutter, declutter, declutter!) and I kept all our homeschool books, toys, and sewing in baskets so when we got the call all we did was shove everything into the baskets and take them with us into the van. The nine of us were usually out the door within 5-10 minutes! The hardest was keeping on top of the dirty dishes. I kept one basket ready for dumping dishes in, and taking them with us! 🙂