The Stress of Moving!!!

My husband and I recently bought and sold a home after 24 years at the same residence in Macon, GA. We bought our first home in Macon over 33 years ago which happened to be a foreclosure. It is quite ironic that the last home purchased was also a foreclosure. Twenty-four years in our previous home has many memories!

The past 24 years as a successful REALTOR did not prepare me for the level of stress in moving a residence. Education has been important in my career--but certainly did not prepare me for the level of stress experienced by a SELLER and BUYER! Would it not be expected of a full-time, career-oriented real estate agent to remain calm during negotiations, inspections, the lending process, attorneys, surveys, home-owner's associations (just to mention a few) process???

Thank goodness for TWO wonderful business partners to guide me through the process since my years of experience and knowledge disappeared when it came to handling my own deals!! Of course, making an offer, negotiating, and purchasing a home prior to even putting your current home on the market was not exactly the chain of events we had envisioned. It all just seemed to happen and closed the purchase on Christmas eve!!

THEN---after telling a fellow REALTOR we would be putting our home on the market--he called and ask to show our home to a potential buyer!! AAAGH!! My two business partners (which happens to include my son who was raised in the home) rushed to the house in-between appointments to---STAGE---my house!!

To end this tale of stress--buyer liked--low offer--negotiations--second guessing--emotions--questions--final result--PENDING!! Twenty-four years of packing to do, movers, repairs, crying, memories, leaving neighbors, remembering that now 28 year old son riding his big wheel in the basement, busting his lip playing ball in the front yard, disappearing one evening with the next-door little girl at age 5 selling scuppernongs door-to-door, family gatherings, pets buried in the back yard of the home we were leaving behind for a new family to build memories and moving to a new home to hopefully live out the rest of our years and form new memories, new neighbors, new sounds, new smells!

WOW!! This is the best education, better understanding of "BUYER'S REMORSE"--"SELLER's REGRETS". Oh, almost forgot--the purchaser of our home wanted to close and take possession in "TWO WEEKS??"

Yes--new respect, empathy, patience for all the PAST , PRESENT AND FUTURE home sellers and buyers!! I do love this business!! Check out those business partners that were there for me when I really needed them!! "The Perfect Partners for You" and "ME".

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