money pit

when we put our house on the market back in august of last year i would have laughed in your face if you would have told me it would still be on the market today. it's been five months. and counting. my husband said we didn't have to put it on the market. his new position was only 1 1/2 hours away. he could drive it every day. well, if you know my husband it was more like 2 hours. with no traffic. at midnight. only on sundays. so, that lasted all of about two weeks. we bought our new house ten miles south of common sense and moved in last october. although we have had a ton of traffic in our old house we have not had an offer. not a single one. another reason we decided to move, other than the short commute, was showing the house. and although we were grateful for all of the traffic it was a nightmare. usually, it was during the weekend so my husband was home to help load the kids up and take them to drive around aimlessly for what seemed like weeks at a time. but when i was home alone and had to clean the house, load up the kids and entertain them in the middle of the afternoon for a couple that couldn't even afford the house, well, it was wearing thin. it seems that the people that really like the house and appreciate what it has to offer just can't afford it. and the ones that can afford it have things to say about it that make me scratch my head. we have had one couple say they loved everything about it but it was just too small. understood. another couple came through and the wife loved it but the husband couldn't stand the basement. i will note that this couple was looking for new construction and had a budget of 300K. why are you making me clean my house, load my kids up in my car and drive them around aimlessly to look at a house that is forty years old and half your budget? and then make a comment that the husband couldn't stand the basement and it would cost too much to remodel. if you can't remodel a basement for 150K you are stupid. my mom says i don't want stupid people to buy our nice house anyway. another couple came through and the wife loved everything but the husband said there wasn't enough storage in the basement. it's 1200 square feet of basement. what are you storing a 747? which reminds me. my favorite one to date is pilot guy. he loved the house too. except for the basement. he was too tall. never in a million years would i have come up with that excuse. i think we have had about 20 different realtors come through with clients and they can't believe how much house there is for the money. except one and i can't get into that one. too bad their clients don't see it. our realtor is the bomb. she is beside herself as well. we have reduced the price twice from our already ridiculously low aggressive price tag. i am not sure if that was the right thing to do. we hadn't even gotten an offer at the price it was set at originally. at this point, we'll take stupid.