Hi all - for those of you who provided your email address in the body of your response, you've got mail. If you didn't provide your email, please provide it in the body of your response to the post. With so many people asking for this, it's a lot of extra work for me to go into each person's profile to look up their email address. If you just put it here, I can quickly copy and paste and send everyone one email. Thanks!

I am like OldFixer - I have recipes on index cards, printed off from my printer, in folders, binders, etc.! I am so thankful for Pinterest now and have recipes saved on that board in categories. But many years ago before Pinterest I decided that it was too time consuming to type out all my recipes to do an on-line cookbook, so I just sorted the newspaper clipping, written recipes, etc. by category and put them in a large 10 x 13-inch and just wrote the category on the envelope - they are stored in a file cabinet. So if I want a particular "zucchini" recipe, I only have to search that envelope. Appetizers, salads, crock pot, meat dishes, rhubarb recipes, vegetables, etc. But if I am having a holiday dinner such as Thanksgiving, I started a 3-ring binder and put all the recipes I have ever used for that holiday dinner whether it be appetizers, the turkey, side dishes and desserts, and then add a page with the year and menu we had. I use page protectors in that binder and refer to it every year.

Can you explain what steps are giving you problems?

If your comps are new construction, and that is what people are actually buying, then that is where your pricing needs to be. It's a rough market, but as someone who has staged hundreds of homes for my BIL the real estate agent, if you are having lots of showings and zero offers, then you are seriously over priced--20%. If you are having lots of showings and what you consider "low ball" offers, then you are moderately over priced--15%. If you are having lots of showings and some "low" offers, then you may only be overpriced by 10%. In this market, I have not seen a single home be "priced right" from the beginning. Yes, it's depressing, but as another poster mentioned, count your lucky stars that you have a relocation package! There are so many people in your shoes who have no choice but to take the 100K hit and/or declare bankruptcy because of a job relocation/loss and a bad RE market. Now that you have your bottom line number, you might want to have your agent do another open house for brokers with a "Recently Reduced" flag on the listing. And I hate to say it, but it will probably be the same type of market where you are moving. And this is why you've gotten some strong cautions about building custom right now. Your dollar can buy so much more in a down market by buying existing! Just look at what some lucky person is going to get when they buy your house!