They are listening
As most of you know, I host a live weekly radio show called All About Real Estate.
After a recent Sunday show, I received an email from a listener who had heard about the couple who changed their minds about selling their home. I love it when one of my topics helps others.
"Good Afternoon Margaret,
I listen to and sometimes call your Sunday Real Estate Show weekly, and I wanted to tell you how much I really enjoyed hearing your story of a couple who changed their minds about listing their home and fell in love with it again once it was fixed up and cleaned up."
Here is that story: They changed their mind.
“I have been going through a lot of emotional turmoil about selling my Maryland home and have found myself making a complete break from MD to my house in FL full time. I have had multiple emotions: happy and sad. Worry etc.
Originally from New York, we moved when I was 5, and I have spent most of my life in Maryland. My current home is only a few blocks from where I was raised. I have had my current home for 22 years this month. Remembering how thrilled I was with it when I first got it, being within walking distance to my parents (now sister's home) meant so much.
I never thought leaving MD permanently would be so difficult for me, so at this point, I decided just to fix it up, keep it, be a 'snowbird' for a couple more years, and play it year to year.
Once it's fixed up, I'll fall in love with it again. It does need a lot of work, and now it's worth more. It's surrounded by nearly a million-dollar big colonial homes, like my parents' home, which I grew up in. So, if I did sell it, chances are, I would never be able to live in this neighborhood again if I wanted to move back.
I like the change going back and forth, as I admit I start getting bored after a month or so in Florida. Another factor was that Florida summers are brutally hot, so I'd summer up here and make sure I spent my 183 days in Florida broken up through the year.
Also, I am hurricane skittish, and I hear Fla is gonna have a record-breaking hurricane season this year with La Niña. And I don't want to stay in a hotel for a year or two if my home is destroyed and needs rebuilding. I'll feel better knowing I still have my home here. I sent my realtor the link to your story about the couple changing their minds and my feelings, and she loved it and fully agreed I made the right decision for now. She said she enjoyed speaking with you when I talked to her.
I thought of the phrase, 'Sometimes you really can go home again.'
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Helping people make well-informed decisions brings me joy.
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