Thanks, everyone! We've received the offer paperwork this morning, and it looks good so far. Crossing fingers we can make this work!
Windchime, we went through that exhausting process eight years ago, after mom passed away (dad passed in 1991). Forty years in that house, and many, many things accumulated that needed to be sorted through. It was physically, emotionally, and mentally draining, and it was just my sister and me. And then once the house was emptied, we sold that one.
The house we're currently selling is the house we lived in before the house my mom lived in to her final days. My parents had a very smart practice of keeping their last home and renting it out whenever they moved to a new house, so rental income supplemented my parents' income (and later my sister's and mine). We moved out of this house when I was about 7, so we do have memories there, but neither one of us is attached to this house as we were to mom's. It's been a rental property for over 40 years. However, it's the same neighborhood where we grew up, and the memories abound in that area. I stopped at the same little farm truck yesterday to buy tomatoes and peaches where my mom used to buy produce a decade ago, and it was an oddly emotional moment.
I appreciate all the support and good wishes!
