Mike~ I will be at the sale on Friday and have been attending the last 4 yrs and I will say that there will be alot to choose from with several different vendors you will not leave empty handed. grinchis40~ As for going to the sale on Sunday there is still alot to choose from as I have been to the sale on all 3 days. Hope to see you all there...... Rigo

This is fabulous. Three of the wonderful things I have learned since I was fortunate enough to discover gardening: 1. Nothing grows on the mountaintop. We must have valleys to grow. 2. Momma birds have to kick baby birds out of the nest, or they will never fly. Momma squirrels are smart to destroy the nest so no one can come back to it. 3. You have to have darkness to grow. Never pray away your bad times. Learn from them. The people across the street do everything I do to my yard. They mow, water, feed correctly. Their yard is full of weeds and weak...mine is beautiful. The difference? They shine a 100 watt bulb in their street light every nite, all nite. I have 60 watts and it goes off at 2am every morning. It has to have darkness to grow.

How about a third choice?... a Lease Purchase? A LP forces the renters to have some skin in the game. A Lease Option only gives them the first right of refusal if they do decide to buy. A LP is nothing more than a signed RE contract that has a delayed closing, usually 12 months. Both parties sign a rental contract and the RE contract. If they close on the agreed upon date, then the deposit is credited towards the down payment and / or closing costs. If they do not close, they lose the deposit to you. A sales price is negotiated up front, an inspection is done up front, just like a normal sale. One possible glitch is that the home does not appraise to the agreed upon sales price after the rental term. Both parties need to agree that if this is the case, then both parties agree on the lender's appraised price. The rental term should be for market rate with nothing going towards the buyers down payment. Banks do not allow sellers to put anything towards a buyer's DP. The initial deposit should be in line with what the lender will charge them in 12 months... FHA is currently 3.5%. Make sure to hold this in an attorney's escrow account!!! That way both parties are made sure that it will be around when it comes time to either using it towards the DP, or to pocket it for the buyers not going to close. The BEST part of this scenario is that once explained to the potential buyers, you will know right away how serious they are towards cleaning up thier credit, and purchasing the home. Good luck.

Hi, Nan! I keep thinking, "It's too hot, time for me to go into summer dormancy; *no more plants*! but they keep following me home... & every year I say, "I'm not going to water these pots of plants through the summer. Anybody left in a flowerpot after May 30 gets composted." Pots of plants have homesteaded 3 plastic wading pools here.