Karen, Karen, Karen, I'm speechless! WOW! Guess I had better not be looking for bunnies for you at yard sales this summer! Well, they do say rabbits multiply at a fast rate & you are here to prove that now, aren't you? LOL LOL I may be slowed down a bit, one of our female Shih Tzus is ready to deliver a batch of puppies anyday, tried to talk my 14 yr old grandson into staying home & delivering them while I go to sales, but he didn't like that idea! He said he'd go to the sales for me & I could stay home with the puppies, but he's too young to drive yet! LOL

Almost 3 months later... We ended up reducing the price to $565k about 2 months ago. When I last posted we were at the top of one buyer's list. It turned out when they made the 3rd visit that it was the wife's 1st visit and she didn't like the layout of the house. Another buyer who had seen the house before the price was reduced came back for another visit since the price reduction and reportedly is highly interested but has to sell their house first. We've had a total of 15 showings (not counting 2nd showings) and had 2 others who wanted to come when we had the house off showing for a few days. Real estate agent says that is a lot of showings for a house in this price range. A nearby house that started out being listed over $800k a couple of years ago has now dropped its price to $600k. It is not all that comparable (more land, much smaller, no guest house and in other ways) and is still priced way more a square foot than we are. I don't want to be the one on the market for 2 years though. We have high carrying costs on this house and need to sell as soon as possible. I realize you can't sell if there are no buyers but the number of showings implies to me that there are buyers (although not so many now that it is the end of the summer). We are going to reduce the price again, probably to $550k (in our area search breaks points are at $50k so this picks up the ones searching 500-550 and those from 550-600). We are at the point there where if we sold for that we would break even at closing. If we sell for less then we bring money to closing (which I understand has nothing to do with market value). We can afford to bring money to closing *if* we sell in the next several months. If this drags on a couple of years then it becomes difficult. I am thinking at this point to list at $550k and if it doesn't get an offer within a month lower it $25k. Thoughts?

Wow, I feel almost normal reading this thread... our bedroom is 8 and a half by 11 feet, and to constrain things further, has two doorways... one a normal door, the other a set of double doors. The house is Victorian (a skinny one, on another of those 25 foot lots), and I suppose the room was originally the front parlour, connected by double doors to the dining room. Since there is a back addition that is now the living room, the purpose of all the rooms is a bit amorphous - none has a closet, so any room can be, and pretty much has been while the kids have been growing up, a bedroom. The double bed is centred on the long wall, and you can't get around the foot end because there is a bookshelf there (need some storage, and I have a thing for furniture too) so no space, so to go from one side of the bed to the other, we have to actually leave the room by whatever door we're near and go down the hall to come in the other door! The room has about as much furniture in it as it can hold, and as much of it as I can manage is tall, with stuff stored on top (the light stuff, as we're in earthquake country). Thank heavens for high ceilings! KarinL

Here is the bedspread she has been using. I usually have it multi color up, but for 2 days had it solid blue with muave border up. Last evening she told me she didn't like it the way this photo shows and wants the solid color side up because she like purple. Based on more research I was thinking of going with a pale straw yellow for the walls and paint her re-purposed furniture in bright colors. A solid color for the curtain on the only window and maybe she'll have fewer nightmares. I'm not sure how it would look with this bedspread.