There happens to sit a For Sale in my yard that is now covered by a Sold sign. Five short days (and by short, I mean long) after the offer was presented, the negotiations were over and the paper work signed. (Please note, it’s apparently more work to redo the paperwork than trying to cross out and make all the changes on every page from an offer you never planned to except…so what happens when there is two different prices listed on your paperwork?) People keep congratulating me but I’m not really sure why. I think I’m supposed to feel like I accomplished something but when you look at it, I didn’t really accomplish anything. After 4 years obviously there is money to be made and I accomplished paying someone at least half of that money to sell the house. I’m pretty sure because of that, I accomplished not getting back the same amount of money put into the house over the last 4 years. I accomplished being pressured for instant answers for 5 days. I accomplished having to go well beyond meeting someone halfway. The one thing I did accomplish is that the term Dual Agent is a joke and I will never go through that again. Pretty much imagine having the same lawyer represent the rapist and “rapee”…he gets paid the same either way…what a joke. Overall, I pretty much accomplished an overwhelming feeling of…disappointment and total loss of one’s self respect. On a brighter note, there are a lot of people that are excited the house sold, so at least I made a lot of other people happy. Since the looking for a new home thing has been anything but successful, while everyone is celebrating the house selling I’ll be working on reinforcing and waterproofing the boxes so the spring rains don’t destroy my new home.