Happy May!
I love May it signals summer for me.  Growing up we had lots of family birthdays in May, including my great grandmother, my great aunt and uncle, my favorite aunt, another uncle and myself.  With Mothers Day and Memorial Day, it was just one celebration after the next. It was also the time of year that I got most of my summer wardrobe as birthday gifts. Now there are only 2 of us left to celebrate birthdays during the month along with the holidays, and I no longer get a new summer wardrobe in honor of turning another year older.  Dang, so not fair. 

So a little sun, gets us outside trying to get the yard in shape, and cleaning out the garage. I've made several trips to the donation Vans in the area.  I need to weed out some more of the excess belongings but having a hard time.  It can be done though and will be (she says with a grimace).

We've been talking to realtors again in hopes of putting our home on the market.  It seems like things are picking up and that people have been able to turn their homes around in approximately 2 months or less.  What I don't like is when the realtors try to brow beat you into a price that will get them paid, but you will make less or nothing than the realtor.  They use the excuse of this is the only way you can sell.  Oh yes, I should willingly sell my home 40 thousand less than the purchase price. So that all that I've paid on it, will go to someone as comission.  Oh yes please let me make you happy realtor.  We actually talked to a knowledgeable appraiser who suggested a higher price, after looking at the comps.  The realtor tried to write off the appraiser as trying to apraise it for re-fi not resale, as if he wouldn't know the difference. I mean they have used the excuse of short sales, and glut of forclosures the last few years for driving prices down, but I really feel the realtors play a part in this as well. Encouraging people to short sale and take less for their homes.  UGH I dislike realtors and the tricks they play. I have yet to find one that I truly like and the one who I probably trust the most is no longer in our area.  Sometimes I would rather rent than go through the buy and sell process of a house.
Oh Well, hope this saga will end soon.  I find a little property here and there, and they sell so fast its almost not worth looking yet. I think I get off on the torment though.  Haha such a sick thought.