Lessons of the week

This week has been a week of lessons for us.

Lesson One - Offers

First it started with the house.  I'm not sure that we should have accepted our first offer.  The buyers may have become more of a problem than a solution.  This week, they called the contractor working on the house and asked if he was going to be there so they could just, "stop by".   I needed to do some stuff at the house and was there when they arrived.  One car, two cars, then one of their cars, then another car and finally their second car.  If you are playing along, that is 5 yes 5 carloads of people that they brought to "look" at the house.  I actually told the buyer that they weren't allowed to be there without their realtor.  

She said, "OK, can I call my realtor now?".  

Me - "I prefer not, since I am working on the house".  

She - "What time do you think you'll be done, 5?"

Me - "I'm not really sure"

She - "Tomorrow?"

Me - "Not really sure".  But if you do come, you really need your realtor."

The balls people have.  I called my realtor, who called hers, and explained the correct etiquette for viewing homes.

The house we are selling:

Lesson 2 -  Middle school girls

One of the girls friends posted something to the effect of, "I hate people to hate cheerleaders.  I also can't believe she wears clothes from Justice and calls herself a middle schooler.  I can't believe that I have to breathe the same air as her". 

This prompted a day's worth of conversations with the girls about how we treat people and not really knowing other people's circumstances.  Which led to me saying this to them: "If I ever hear that you make fun of someone else's clothing, you will never have anything brand name again".  

Lesson 3 - Middle school girls part 2

#2 took it upon herself to try to defend another girl from the person who said the quote in "lesson 2".    This backfired greatly - leading to #2 calling the girl a liar and straining the relationship between my #1 and the "friend".    When I told #2 to apologize, which she did - and did very well, it was followed up by the girl texting back, "NOT ACCEPTED".  

I texted the girl back and apologized for #2 getting involved in her business.  I think that when she found out I was involved, she did not say another word and told #1 that she forgave her sister.

Lesson 4 - Badgering your husband

If it is something that you think needs to be fixed, start fixing it.  You don't have to finish it … because the husband will know you are serious and finally finish it!  Advise I will follow again in the future

Lesson 5 - Moving

Moving sucks when your husband is in another state and in meetings all day.  Even harder when you have to make appointments on his behalf.

Monday 6-11

I have had a few encounters this week that makes me wonder about people.

The first one happened on my lawn. I had a neighbor ask me why I didn't use her to sell our house. I have few reasons: 1. The relo company said that it really wasn't wise in a relocation to use a person within your neighborhood because they may not be completely loyal to you. 2. I didn't know that she was certified to do all the stuff that the relo company needs 3. She really isn't our "style" of realtor. Her questions were really was a straight forward attack - that I really didn't much appreciate. When I told her that someone else from her office got picked (from the relo company) she really gave me crap and wanted me to change to her. As we kept talking, not only did she want the listing, but if I didn't go with her, she was then trying to get some commissions taken away too.

After the encounter, I forgot about and didn't even mention it to J. But then, J got a call on his way to AR and was asked if we wanted to switch from A to B. The answer was no … we really liked A. After J told me about the phone call, and I told him the story behind it, he called the office back and told them that it was completely unprofessional. He also told them that if we couldn't go with A, we would be dropping the whole company. The company called and apologized after hearing the story.

The second one happened today. After arriving at the house to meet with some people, one of the service guys asked me if I was suppose to show the house today. I said, "No, just meet with the movers.". He proceeds to tell me that a "friend" had come over with her friend and she showed her the house. What the cuss!!!

He told her that the house wasn't ready to be shown yet. She said that it was alright and then proceeded to show the house and take pictures. REALLY? WHAT THE F? No call to me, no email to me, no text to me. That was pretty ballsy. I sent an email to her and will probably call her tomorrow to tell her how disappointed I am in that situation.

What the hell is wrong with people? Respect my right to choose a realtor - or at least respect the process that I need to go through based on what my family needs. Respect my right to have my house. It is not on the market yet … wait your turn!

On the move again

We have made it to Atlanta. The trip of non-eventful, which is how you like your long flights to be.

We made a decision early on to surprise my Mom when we came home. We told her that we were flying home on June 1. Gabby told her a small little lie as to why they couldn't talk on the 31 … and she took it - hook line and sinker! We rang the doorbell, and didn't get an answer. The girls rang it again, then knocked on he door. We waited and waited, and finally, she looked out the window, saw us and was shocked! We pulled it off - She was completely shocked!

The other big news is that Jonathan is starting a new job at Walmart in Bentonville, AR. Jonathan traveled with his job - close to 95% travel in the 10 yrs he worked with the company. After spending the 2 years with his family in HK, we made a decision that this is really what was best for our family. There was going to be NO guarantee from the company that he was going to travel less. Now, it looks like he will only travel 1-2 times a year rather than every week. Awesome!

We will put the house on the market in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully it sells quickly due to the fact that it has a basement!