And It’s Gone Again

Selling a house can feel like shooting a rapids. It takes patience, stamina, and skill to get to the smooth waters at the end.

This post originally appeared on the Hermit Haus Redevelopment website on 2016-04-17.

The Blue Ridge house falling out of escrow is one of the forms of turbulence Carol writes about in her free handout “88 Forms of Turbulence.” Turbulence is anything that can make a deal go sour. It’s one of the things we protect sellers against when we buy a house. When we put a house under purchase contract, it stays sold. Unfortunately, we can’t protect ourselves against turbulence on the part of our buyers.

Within a couple of days after officially putting the Blue Ridge house back on the market, we again had multiple offers, and once again we accepted a full-price offer. Hopefully, it will stay sold this time. But when I was a kid, my mom used to tell me you had to sell a house three times to get it to close. So, who knows?