Blue Ivy - Thank you so much for your help! I will wait and see what happens. Trader #1 is reluctant to tell me if she received my end of the trade or not. That has me confused???? Why wouldn't she just say "yes", or "no"? I have been very polite in all of my e-mails. Even joking about the mailman being on vacation between her and I. Hopefully, she is just behind (because I REALLY! wanted those seeds, LoL) I really wanted the seeds form trader #3 as well. Trader #2, I really only just wanted one of the seeds she was sending, because I didn't know how to turn down a trade I wasn't interested in at the time, LoL. Oh well, there are plenty more seeds in the garden, (...fish in the sea....):-) I will just try and trade for them again. I have met some wonderful people here, who definitely out-weigh the non-senders. :-) On the search for more seeds...... Carrie

John75 - Thanks. Our final price is around 95% of listing price. Laura "I guess I was and I did but do you remember that *most of the other posters who responded to your thread about your lowball offer also (1) thought you made a lowball offer and (2) were baffled that you were baffled that the seller didn't counter your lowball offer?? " I guess we see it differently. I think a lot of people understood why I didn't want to make an offer that was out of line with comps. Let me put it this way? What should a buyer do who wants to buy a particular house but thinks it is listed too high compared to comps? It seems to me that there are 3 choices: Offer to pay a price that won't be supported by appraisal and pay more than the house is objectively worth (and if someone loves a house enough to do that and can afford it not appraising that is fine with me), move on to another house without making an offer (what most buyers do, but then everyone loses out) or make an offer closer to comps (probably won't work but maybe it will). "You don't really know why the seller pulled his home off the market. Maybe he intends to sell it FSBO or privately, to family. Or maybe he just got tired of dealing with lowball offers! He may indeed be "serious" about selling, but at HIS PRICE." No, I don't have a pipeline to his thought process. However, I do know that his agent thought he should have countered and I do know that the seller has had the house off and on the market for a couple of years. So maybe he is serious about selling at HIS PRICE as you put it. And, that is fine if he can get it. I don't see why though I should feel like I have to offer HIS PRICE if I don't think the house is worth it. "And it sounds like you have found another home that you are very happy with so all of this is really moot at this point. " For me, yes. But I don't think you are being objective enough to realize that there really are honest to God sellers out there who are asking for unreasonable prices and not every seller is reasonable. I am willing to believe that you have your house priced perfectly appropriately. I am willing to believe that you are not being unreasonable in the amount you are listing your house for. I am willing to believe that you are not an unreasonable seller. You seem to be unwilling to believe that any buyer who gives a "lowball" offer could possibly be the reasonable one. I am just suggesting that you should acknowledge that it is indeed possible that a seller is the unreasonable one and the buyer is the reasonable one. In my particular situation given what has occurred since I made the lowball offer (the fact my agent - a certified appraiser - felt my offer was reasonable, the fact the seller pulled the house off the market, and the fact that I quickly entered into a contract for 95% of listing price) supports the idea that I was not the one being unreasonable. "

cc...I also have The Brutal Telling on my TBR shelves. I am saving it because, as long as its there, I know I have a book in my possession I will unquestionably love. So I feel free to work my way through all the other seventy three books on the shelves knowing I don't have to like any of them! If I reject three books in a row I become convinced I'll never find another good book.Having that sure-thing there helps me sleep at night! LOL

benjesbride, we don't know if we're on the schedule. When DH spoke with him he never said we expected free service. He explained the problem and told him that he (DH) had replaced both the switch & the transformer with no luck fixing it and asked if the electrician could schedule us in to give a look. Electrician said he'd get back to DH who gave him all our contact numbers. All of the bulbs in the light strips were working when the intermittent blinking began, so I don't think it's the lights, but a bad connection. Below is a portion of the electrician's cost breakdown that shows a $975 charge for lighting 3 upper cabinets. If someone had paid me to do this and it failed in a little over a year of light use, I think I would want to follow up with my customer. It just seems like the right thing to do.