It's been a while...Let's catch up!
I spent December with family in Illinois. In early January, Oldest Daughter and I went down to Mississippi to get the house Wild Bill and I bought last August ready to sell.
Our house was located in the town of Southaven (northern Mississippi) just south of Memphis Tennessee.
On the night of January 11, 2020, there was a bad storm in the Memphis area. In Germantown TN (west side of Memphis) 20 to 30 houses were demolished by the storm.
The next day, Sunday the 12th, a couple standing in the middle of the lot that was her home the day before, made a call to a realtor friend. The couple had been planning to marry in the spring, then buy a new house together in the summer...
"We're going to need a house a lot sooner than we thought!" they told their realtor friend as they picked through the rubble of her home.
"I have the perfect house for you." Realtor Friend replied.
I was packing boxes that Sunday (getting ready to have our realtor put the house on the market) when he called me asking if I would be willing to let a friend of his see the house right away. How could I refuse when I heard their situation?
The next day, Monday Jan 13th, the couple came to see our house... packing boxes and all!
All the home-selling advice you will ever get advises you against showing a house before it's cleaned up and ready -- but what the heck -- I had a feeling.
They came, they saw, they liked. But...they wanted to look at the competition, just in case. I knew they were "The One's" and didn't even bother to put the house on the market.
A few weeks later, the couple returned with her 3 daughters to look one more time.
On our back patio that day (with an engagement ring in his pocket) he got down on his knee and proposed to her and her girls.
They got married a few weeks later and, as a brand new family, they moved into the house at the end of February.
I left them most of the new furniture we had just bought and moved on. The house was never really our home, it's just a place we once lived.
Wild Bill, 1996, I Would Love To Do It All Over Again
Thanks for dropping by!
