Friday, September 24, 2010

It's all down to a refrigerator

UPDATE 12/1/10: We have a buyer!!! Closing scheduled for 12/22, only four days before we depart the US.

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The refrigerator?!
The house has been on the market 3 days. We had three viewings in the first two days, which was really exciting and (as our real estate agent puts it) outstanding. Now, we get to review what people think of our house. We're hearing really great things, and we're priced right.

But...

Two of three are not interested because the placement of the refrigerator is weird. That's okay, really, if they don't like the refrigerator placement, then maybe they shouldn't buy our house when there are lots of other choices out there. But the galling thing was that the comment from the last group was that it would require another renovation of the kitchen to correct the poor placement of the refrigerator.

Okay, we spent seven years contemplating where that refrigerator should go before we finally decided on an acceptable plan of the kitchen renovation. If you're not blowing out the back of the house (and they loved the porch) or getting rid of an eat-in-kitchen, there's no better place  to put that refrigerator!

Urg. We thought the renovated kitchen would be one of the things that would help our house sell fast. But, people don't like things that are odd. Let's hope there are a few buyers out there (or at least one) who can appreciate the way we used the space that we had. And, much like us, I'm sure they'll come to actually like having the refrigerator there (bonus feature #1, no bending over to get to your crisper!).