Our realtor called us at about 10 to 8 this morning to let us know we have an offer!!!
We have an offer!!!
Offer we have!!!!

Just a refresher course: We started at $180,000 with another realtor. Got a new realtor and started at $164,900. About a week ago jumped down to $154,900.
The offer we got is for $144,900. An obvious low-ball and he most likely wants it for $150,000. Which is fine with us since this is the lowest we can go to pay off the mortgage and realtor. So this afternoon will go to the realtor's (Jeff) office and do a counter-offer. I don't know if we'll do $150,000 or something like $152,900??

Jeff also said that he contacted another realtor whose party was really interested. Now that we have an offer this may prompt them to make one?....

If all goes well we could be closing mid-March. Yippeeee!!!!

In other news, I have a sinus headache, so I'm sleepy and groggy from the medicine. DH must have known this because he did the dinner/breakfast dishes. (I had already been feeling yucky last night, so I didn't do the dishes then.) That was very nice of him.

I'm doing laundry right now, and as soon as I get off the computer I may lie down again....

I'm really not thinking straight, and I'm too excited about the potential sale, so....

Frugal/Simple Thought of the Day: When dissatisfied with something, make sure to let it be known. We rented a dry-system rug cleaner yesterday to do 2 rooms, the upstairs hallway and stairs. The one room didn't look like it made a difference at all, and in our bedroom it just fluffed up the carpet.
We were not pleased, so when DH returned it, the same day, he let the guy know, very politely of course. The guy tried to get DH to rent a wet RugDoctor, but DH said he didn't want to waste anymore time and just wanted money back for the rental. (We had no problem paying for the crystals though since we did use them, and we had some left over and they did seem to lighten some of the stains.)

Another thought, we have really never had luck with trying to clean our own carpets, so there may be times when hiring a professional should be your first and only decision....