BS: Bobert's Great News!!! Thank you Lord!!

Subject: BS: Bobert's Great News!!! Thank you Lord!!
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:25 PM

Well, well, well...

This thing has been goin' on for a couple months now and I was a farid if I talked about it that would jinx it but...

...the spec house that I have built over the last 3 years has gone to closing today!!!

(That's great, Boberdz... How much did ya' make???)

Ahhhhh, I didn't exactly make any money... Might of fact, I gave away 7 acres and around $40K, to boot but...

...my $250K construction loan was comin' due in 60 days, this is a crappy market, the guy who has bought the house is a psychiatrist from Washington, D.C. who will be usin' it as weekender so...

...considering everything??? I'll take the lose and be happy... At least I'll get some of the $$$ back that I put into the house...

BTW, if I don't say so myself, seein' as after this I probably have built my last house, this house is a masterpiece... Lotta good, hard work in it and it shows...

Whew!!! It has been touch and go for the last month...

Thank you, Lord!!!

Bobert

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From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:26 PM

Cut and run iffin ya have ta! Good on ya fer bein able ta do so.

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From: Bobert
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:33 PM

Thanks, gn-zer... Reminds me of an old joke... Maybe later... Right now, I am so rlieved... It's only been 15 minutes since I learned that the buyer had closed up in NoVa... We still have to close on Monday but that's no big deal... Havin' him close was...

Whew!!!

The P-Vine and I are so happy to have this chapter behind us... So very happy...

B~

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From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:45 PM

"Thank you, Lord!!!"

He does real estate? I KNEW times were tough, but...


..anyway, congratulations, Bobert.

Build & sell a couple more, and you can declare bankruptcy!

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From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:00 PM

Congratulations! How did you get through the snow?

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From: Bobert
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:14 PM

That's the wierdest thing, leeneia... The buyer cam up in Decemeber right after our first 20 inch snow and I had just plowed out the driveway and the driveway to the spec house... But as luck would have it it was being shown to two people (different agents) at the same time.... That's a good thing... The buyer has not been back since... His agent came down for the "home inspection", which lasted 4 hours, during which I developed a purdy good relationship with him... That was as good thing 'cause seems that the agent is a part-time agent but also works for the psychiatrist in the office part-time... Hey, don't ask me??? Seems that the buyer and the agent might be coming up (down) this weekend??? That means I gotta plow them out, too... No biggie after all I've been thru...

B~

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From: rumanci
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 06:29 PM

great news - I hope everything works out to pay back all the hard graft you've put in.   I'll keep everything crossed without falling over !!
rum

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From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:01 PM

Good news!! You might save that hotle yet, buddie!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's Great News!!! Thank you Lord!!
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 07:22 PM

Well, I am on a roll, Amos... We'll see... I have a meetin' this weekend on it...

B~

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From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:31 PM

Good things come in threes, bobert. You got rid of your crazy neighbor, then sold the house, now...maybe a Baby Bobert in the wings? That would be nice.

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From: Bobert
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:58 PM

YIKES!!!

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From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:59 PM

I thank yuuu scarred the lad.

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From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:31 PM

I didn't know you COULD jump that high!

Dani

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From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 09:33 PM

LOL!!!!


A

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From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:18 AM

Good news, darlin'!

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From: KT
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:52 AM

a baby bobert....what a great image!

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From: maeve
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 12:55 AM

I'm happy for you, Bobert!

maeve

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From: ClaireBear
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 01:46 AM

Celebrating for you! (Where's that bottle got to?)

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From: Genie
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:50 AM

I got it right here, CB. Cheers!

And a toast to ol' Bobert (an' maybe baby Bobert too?).

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From: ragdall
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:56 AM

Congratulations, Bobert!

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:13 AM

you landed yet, Bobert?

congratulations on selling the house

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's Great News!!! Thank you Lord!!
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:31 AM

24 hours later and I'm still in the pinch-me stage... Spoke with my broker last night and he said that "The Doc" might be comin' up this weekend... If so, he's gonna be real surprised at just how crappy the driveway can be 'cause with the snow there's just enough room to get a car up it with maybe 3 inches to spare on both sides... So, if "The Doc" ownes a Hum-V he's gonna find it too wide to make it up...

Anyway, we're still very happy about the sale and happy that their ain't no BabyBoberts on the way...

B~

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:39 AM

YAY Bobert!!!!!!

   We have a log cabin in the woods we're fixin' to sell soon...how about sending me some of your sellin' mojo?

Michelle

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From: Bobert
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 07:46 AM

Wish I had some left to spare, Michelle... I used all my mojo up gettin' this one sold...

But I'll be drivin' thru Mississippi next month and maybe pick up a little mojo down there... If so, I jump right on that cabin!!!

B~

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From: My guru always said
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 09:19 AM

Very glad to hear your news Honey, I'd have kept my fingers crossed for you if I'd have known the situation!!

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From: Bobert
Date: 13 Feb 10 - 09:29 AM

Couldn't much talk about it...

B~

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From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 07:44 AM

Well, well, well...

Tomorrow is the big day fir us... We sign the deed at 10 in the mornin' and then if I have it correctly it will be recorded on Tuesday am and moenies dispersed...

So yesterday I took my tractor down and spent 3 hours diggin' out the driveway at the spec house just in case the buyer decides to get outta DC today and drive down and see his new house...

I'm really curious about the buyer and itching to meet him... All I know is that his is a shrink, has 3 boxer dogs and that his agent also works part tome in his office doin' somethin'... I have met the agent, however, and I was askin' him if he tought that "The Doc" is the kinda guy who has this dream of riding a tractor with a straw hat and a wheat straw stickin' outta his mouth??? His agent thought that was absolutely funny and said, "Nah, he isn't that kinda guy. He's Quiet and likes to read alot."

Okee Dockee, we'll see about that... I'm sure "The Doc" will need a lot of stuff done when he settles in and I can't wait to see how "The Doc" reacts to some of my hillbilly friends who I'll refer to do that work... This is gonna be culture shock for "The Doc" but I ain't gonna say a word until the ink is dry on the deed and the money is back in my bank... Then the fun will begin...

B~

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From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 08:43 AM

Might be wise to go silent on Mudcat until the deed is done (a pun!)

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From: LilyFestre
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:00 AM

Bobert,

I have a book that tells a story very similar to yours, it's called "How to Walk a Pig." It's about a city person who moves to the country and all the characters who help him *fix* his house. Lots of fun to read if you're a country bumpkin like me!

Michelle

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From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:03 AM

Oh, about the culture shock aspect??? Hey, these folks ain't "Deliverence" kinda hillbillies... Just peacefull hillbillies... "The Doc" will be fine here... May get in tome side work, to boot... Maybe some barterin'... I told this one hillbilly, "Donnie I'm-a-drunk", that he might be getting some work and first thing he asked is if "The Doc" might wanta do a littl horse tradin'... lol...

Nah, I ain't to worried now that "The Doc' has offically closed and the HUD statement is at my attorney's... That means that the lenders have allredy signed off on everything and transfered money and all that...

But then there is the jinx factor so maybe yer right, Sins...

B~

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From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:37 AM

Cool. Very happy things are most excellently progressing.

Susette and I have two houses to sell here in MD before we pack up the instruments and move down to the mountain this summer (cross your fingers.) So I understand the 'cliff-hanger' you've been on.

all the best,
chance

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From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:38 AM

Got any pictures of the house? I'd like to see if you can drop a plumb line and if you're on the square.

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From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:41 AM

I think it's on Realtor.com, Chance... Ya' just kinda have to check out houses from $350,000 to $400,000 in Stanlet, Va... Might work...

B~

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From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 09:55 AM

I don't remember Bobert discussing the widow's sons any time.

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:49 AM

Where mah post?

Yer welcome, Bob.

~The Lord

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From: Alice
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 11:59 AM

Stanlet, VA ?????


Did you mean Stanley?

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From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:03 PM

I have a story about selling a house and property...

Some years back, before I met him, a friend and his wife divorced. She got the house in town (which he'd built) and he got the undeveloped ocean front property out the road.

My friend is a college professor/architect/house builder/musician and the first thing he did was to build a 10-foot square cabin with a loft then set about doing a house.

He is a meticulous man and does beautiful, exacting work, doing everything from foundations to wiring to cabinetry to windows and doors and floors himself. His surfaces are like silk and everything gleams. By preference he works mainly with white maple and with lots of light. He works by himself, inventing all kinds of things to help him reach cathedral ceilings.

The crawl space under the house is storage, including a freezer; it is fully finished and when he had houseguests he slept down there on a futon.

He first built a 2-bedroom house with two decks. The bedrooms were on the downstairs level and one went up the silky stairs to the living quarters with fantastic views of ocean, islands and mountains. Everything is wood and he designed and built the chairs and sofa and tables himself.

He also built a woodshop that is bigger and better than many a home.

Long story: he met a woman at his father's funeral in Maine and a year later they got married. They needed more room so he added a bedroom and another deck.

Eventually they decided to move to Haines a coastal town about 60 miles from Juneau and listed their home for sale.

First he sold the original cabin- and the buyer hired a helicopter to strap it up and fly it to an island work site. My friend said it was like watching The Wizard of Oz as it flew away.

The realtor listed the property at $700,000 and the ad went out far and wide. Six months later a man in Baltimore, Maryland, wrote a check for $643,000- because his "son needs a place to live while he's going to university in Juneau."

He then hired my friend to add on to the workshop to make it an art studio for his wife were she to visit.

My friend and his wife have now been married just over 10 years and are in the midst of building a house in Haines.

So cast your nets wide, folks.

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From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 12:08 PM

Good on yer, Bobert.

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From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 02:10 PM

Honeyville Rd?

I knew it well once upon a time when my cousins and I roamed those hills hunting squirrels and picking chinquapins.

Hot summer days we were swimming and dipping for minnows in the deep holes in Honey Run, and carrying water from the spring at the foot of the limestone cliff.

cheers,
chance

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From: kendall
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 04:43 PM

Dont feel bad, many are victims of this economy. I was talking to the owner of the hardware store here and he said, "It's so bad even the people who don't pay their bill have stopped buying."

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From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 04:52 PM

Now that's rough right there.

I was gonna send in my monthlies but the girl at tha post offce wouldn't take a cheque fer ta buy the stamps.

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From: Maryrrf
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 05:59 PM

Glad to hear it worked out for you, Bobert. That has to be a relief!

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From: open mike
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 07:01 PM

o.k.---now how about news on the hotel...and the cave nearby...

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From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 10 - 07:02 PM

No, Chance... Pine Grove Rd.... Yes, it is Stanley... Lisyed for $399,900...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's Great News!!! Thank you Lord!!
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:33 PM

The deed (pun intended) is done... Yes, the buyer has now closed, we have closed and the deed will be recorded first thing tomorrow morning when the court house opens...

Whew...

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From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:41 PM

YEEHAAAWWWW!!!

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From: Bobert
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:42 PM

Thanks, gn-zer... My exact sentiments...

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From: Janie
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:55 PM

That's great news, Bobert!

A house sold, and a neighbor who is not only quiet, he is also part time!

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From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 03:55 PM

Ahhh... if it was a $250k loan.... and it was listed at $400k, how did it sell fer $210 with 7a on top?

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From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 06:49 AM

Bobert,

Glad it worked out for you guys.

best to P-Vine.

chance