Deal or No Deal?

No Deal.

The buyers of our lovely Michigan home (going cheap, call me!) have pulled out.

The house is back on the market, and we are back to where we started. Hoping for showings, praying that the Michigan housing market pulls out of the biggest slump since they started keeping records during the depression (true story), and trying to find a way to keep the lawn green and mowed throughout the summer.

The good news? We get our stuff back. We've been living college-chic while we've been in Oregon so far: borrowing mis-matched furniture and kitchen gear from family, supplementing with what we can find at the dollar store. Now we'll be living the high life. Our own mis-matched furniture and dollar store kitchen gear will be arriving here next week. WOOOO!

Our House

Some of you may have read the email plea we sent out earlier today. If you missed it or I missed your email address, here it is:

Well after nearly a year on the market we've gotten an offer on our home. We're happy about it but we're also so nervous we want to poo our pants. Our inspection is this Friday (March 7th) at 9 am EST and we are hereby requesting all of our friends and family to send us any prayers, hopes, ritualistic sacrifices, rain dances, email scams for luck (just the luck--keep the email :-P), crossed fingers and first-star-wishes that the inspection will go well and they'll still want our house...without a bunch of conditions.

If you wanted to see what our house looked like when we put it on the market, here is our listing with a virtual tour and everything.

Thanks for all the congratulations and well wishes we've received so far!

By the way, for all those of you who offered to record your ritualistic dances and send them to me, I'll make sure to post them on the blog for everyone to see! I'll be sure to put a XXX rating on them to warn everyone if they're too authentic (ie. nude).