Ya'll are making me blush! lol!! Seriously, I really do appreciate all your kind words. It makes me smile. Cotehele, my sunroom is not heated either. I did isulate it well though, so I can keep it comfortable with baseboard heaters in the winter and ceiling fans in the summer. The window is a standard exterior window with insulated glass. It is 4' wide and 3' high, a slider. It can be used as a pass-thru to the sunroom. The window has built-in J-channel trim on the outside (like you'd use for vinyl siding and we installed the drywall into that channel. The whole sunroom is drywalled. I can take a picture of how the window looks from the sunroom side this evening, if you'd like more details. If I had it to do again, I'd get a taller window that went all the way down to the granite countertops. I LOVE the way that looks and it would have been easier to pass things through there at a lower height. Cindy

Sorry to hear of your tough situation. I remember when you wrote about the businesses behind you. I guess my response would be the same as the others - you will probably have to lower the price, especially with that much competition around you. And it is a competition - you are competing with the other sellers so you have to do something extra to win. In November in SoCal we sold our house at well below what others were listing theirs, but in line with the few sold comps we could find. I'm sure our sale price ticked off all the other sellers in the area but we were moving out of state and had to sell. So we bit the bullet, dropped the price and got out of there. Made a good profit but it still stung. As far as your realtor ... I think I drove ours nuts. I expected a call at least twice a week, more if we had showings. I couldn't afford to wait longer than that. We had to leave, so if we needed to make adjustments to the house I had to know quickly. Our realtor (who had sold us the house 4 yrs earlier) said he would call us once a week with an update and I said that wasn't enough. He was going to make a good commission off this and I expected more feedback, even if he didn't have much to offer. How long does it take to write an email saying, "I had a couple of nibbles, just hang tight" or "Nothing going on right now, I'll keep in touch." Being a seller in a rough market is nerve-wracking and I was also ill and alone (DH had moved ahead of me) and needed the hand-holding. When he understood that then he became much more communicative. I think you should be very upfront with your realtor as to what you expect from him. And call him if he won't call you! Every time I came home and found a realtor's card on the counter I sent an email to my realtor with the card's info on it, so he could follow up. Good luck ... have some more Drambuie ...

Congratulations! Treat yourself to a wonderful dinner at your favorite restaurant. You deserve it. These are not easy times to be a seller. Wishing you fair winds & safe harbor! Tricia

Kaismom asks a good question.....where do you put all that messy media stuff if not in the living room? Thankfully, the TV has given up the throne as the most important electronic device in our homes. I grew up with it firmly ensconced on its living room throne. That meant no real visitation could go on in that space. Then there came the stereo, cassette player, 8-track player, CD and VHS and now DVD and TiVo and BluRay, and thumb drives and the biggest thing of all, which I think has finally knocked the electronics and all those WIRES out of the living room, THE COMPUTER, THE TABLET, THE E-READER, and we have a new need. At our house, we do not have a home office. Instead, we have a STUDY. I mean, we are both retired. We do not work, except on personal projects. And we read. Holy cow, do we ever READ! And since we have no need for a second bed, unless it is a daybed, we turned our #2 bedroom into a STUDY. PERFECT place to put all our electronics. And that included the flat panel TV. The charging cords for the cell phones, the tablet, the GPS even, the DVDs, the CDs, and I figured out how to play my DVDs on the computer screen, which now doubles as a TV. They are even building the monitors these days to moonlight as a TV when the old tower or separate OS is junked. So I'd say, move all that STUFF out of the living room. If it is possible, make the LR into your guest room. We shall do that, if it looks like we might need to have guests stay over, by mounting french doors to close it off. Usually a LR is the most spacious room in the house. And it is frequently not on the traffic pattern one uses in the mornings to get ready for work. I give myself a pat on the back for thinking about it. Talk about UNDER-UTILIZED SPACE, that is the living room if set up as a separate space. Keep it looking pretty. I mean, you could move that "entertainment center" into the former bedroom/guest room, and move a hidden Murphy bed into the living room, yet keep the space sensational for every occasion. I'm married to an Irishman, and heaven knows, they LOVE TO TALK, so having a sitting room area which is quiet enough for meaningful conversation is a big plus. Up in MA, I furnished the real living room, which was fairly small, had a fireplace, with a simple love seat facing the fireplace, and two armed dining chairs on either side of the fireplace. Just enough table surface for us to set down a wine blass or a beer can or a Diet Coke--because this is the place which set the mood for good adult conversation.No TV, no radio. Well, that's my take on where to put it. And that's all I've got to say about that. :)