Tea Bags& Hot Water: Getting Real

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It's time to get real. I'm really stressed, worried, and have been grinding my teeth a lot (as a result of the aforementioned emotions). I'm about to pull back the curtain and reveal some big insecurities here on the old blog. Mr. SE and I accepted an offer to move to Denver, and within 4 weeks we were packed up and driving across the country. Sure, we owned a home in Nashville and had a solid network of friends. Surely, we'd be able to sell the house within a couple months and make new friendships. Well, the friendship part has come easily. People in Denver are SO nice; and not the sometimes nice of the south (I believe they call it polite) where they're nice to your face and not behind your back. Genuinely nice. While I miss my friends in TN dearly, I'm comforted by the relationships I've been able to create in the past 3 months. And things have been going great with my business, 3 brides on the books already for 2012 and we weren't expecting anything until spring 2013! But there's this one thing that's holding us back...our house.

Y'all. If our house doesn't sell in Nashville we can't close on this new house in Denver. It's like this big fat bully that's riding us piggyback. Our first realtor wasn't really pushing the house, and took a really passive approach to getting it sold. Look, we're not "thinking" about moving-- we packed up and moved across the country, so please bust your buns to sell my house! So after 60 days on the market, we withdrew our listing with that realtor and used a referral from our new realtor here in Denver. The new realtor had back-to-back visits in the first two weeks, but now it's slowed down a bit. Mr. SE thinks it's because of tax time, and that tours will pick up again when folks start getting their refunds.

And me? I'm frustrated, grumpy, and this is a completely sour topic. I'm worried that if anybody else asks me if we "at least have any offers" I'm going to bite their head off. Hello? If I had an offer we would've sold the house! Clearly you have no experience listing a home from 2008-2012. Kthanksbye. I'm trying to stay positive, I really am. But every day I'm dying to get a "showing" email or some sort of head's up that a sweet family is putting an offer on our home.

Here's where you come in. Please send us whatever form of encouragement suits your soul-- prayers, burying a St. Joseph statue (my mom suggested this), house selling dances, positive vibes, or any other ritual you prefer. Please just send it our way.

Thanks for allowing me to get real on here. It's not normally something that I do, since I try and keep the blog more upbeat. Promise I'll try and be back to fun posts tomorrow.

*Update** 

I added a link to our listing in case you know someone in the market in Nashville

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4272-Rachel-Donelson-Pass_Hermitage_TN_37076_M85816-05125