Oh where to begin...

Well.

It's been a very weird two months. You see, Mom decided we needed to live in a bigger place closer to her work (this way she can come home at lunchtime to play with me!) so she talked to her friend/Real Estate Agent and put our house up for sale. What Mom hadn't counted on was all hell breaking loose at work coupled with the sudden rush of folks wanting to look at our house!

Mom kinda-sorta had a melt down and ran away from home while I went to Vegas, but I digress...

So Mom put an offer on a new place and it was accepted. Then the people got a better offer (same price, no subjects though) so they bumped Mom's and we lost the new place. THEN Mom said "enough of this crap!" and started to take our house off the market (12 viewings, no offers).

Then after Mom came back from her mini-vacation (she ran away for a weekend to meltdown in peace) she scrubbed the house inside and out, hauled out most of our stuff to a storage place, and decided not to even look at another place to live until this place sold.

Well.

Almost worked.

Mom saw another townhouse she just loved and has now put an offer on it. She said they counter-offered but is now verbally negotiating as opposed to writing a counter-counter-offer right away.

Our house is still up for sale and Mom dropped the price twice. Started at $269, then dropped to $267, now it's at $263. Mom said she can't go any lower 'cause otherwise we can't buy the new place.

Auntie Jo says Mom should just buy a house and not a townhouse. Mom said she'd like to but she feels safer living in a townhouse complex and if the roof leaks she only has to make a call and it doesn't cost her thousands of dollars.

*I* just want a fenced yard!!

So between Mom trying to keep the house tidy, keep up with her work, and hoping that someone buys our house so we can buy someone elses house, well...no wonder she briefly went bat-poo crazy!

Mom is home for a whole week now. We were supposed to be moving this week, but we lost the house we were going to buy but Mom kept her leave time and we're going to scrub up the house again and "go hard" selling it.

I like having Mom home all the time! We go for walks and visit with the neighbours and I got to have Ice Cream on Sunday!

Yup. Liking having the Mom home!

I didn't count on there being as soft crash in the market. This time last year my house would have been on the market 5-10 days; no sooner did the sign go up then the sold sign was slapped on. THIS year houses are staying on the market 3-4 MONTHS. Even the place I first offered on was on the market for 57 days and it was under-priced by about $10k so even an under-priced place is staying on the market for quite a while.

I told my Agent if my place doesn't sell by the end of the month, it's coming off the market for sure. I almost took it off in June, but just 'took a break' from accepting viewings. NOW there are stories in the news that BC has the highest % of people not willing to make major purchases because of fears of recession due to high gas prices. Gee. I couldn't tell...