Entries from June 2008

June 24, 2008

What Housing Slump?

After 12 days on the market, we got an offer. After an accepted counter-offer and 3 weeks of waiting, our house finally closed yesterday! We feel pretty lucky, but truthfully, we took good care of the house and Mary did a fantastic job staging it. Considering the market, we hit it pretty close to our [...]

June 2, 2008

Returning to the Crime Scene

On Friday, I returned to the house where my grandmother was murdered.

Obviously, it wasn’t a comfortable visit. There are so many memories of that house for me and my family. She’d lived there for many decades. The house itself was built by my grandfather, who passed away in 1987 after having a stroke.
As [...]