we had an offer on our home, finally a decent offer. They want most of the furniture included, which works out well because we would have to sell or give away anyway..
The only thing we would be concerned about would be our shingle roof, the inspector may say it needs a new one..
we countered for 5,000 more.. lets see what happens. wish us luck..

Congratulations!!! Hope you can seal the deal! With the housing market like is is in most parts of the country, it's really great news that you received a decent offer.

Good luck,

Jim

Good luck! Hope all goes well without a glitch.

We too have our house up for sale now. I hope you have good luck with yours. We will be pulling for you. Joe and Sherri

thanks everyone and Charles I remember you. Are you still in jax?
Anyway a little nervous if  all goes well. we should close on the 28th of feb. that is, IF they accept our counter.
Now.. Here goes, i am nervous. we have no place to stay no truck no rv yet.
we thought of renting an rv from the Naval Station and staying at the rv park until we find what we want. stay here in fl. until we can get our feet wet with the new lifestyle. I will continue to work for awhile before going on the road..
We have narrowed it down to a fiver which kind? not sure yet, so many to choose from..oh well , tomorrow is another day and our counter may come through...
anyway will keep you all updated..

Wonderful news!  Hope it works out!  Keeping our fingers crossed for you!

Jan and GC 

Oh I am so happy for you!

Congratulations on the offer - hope all goes well. With the new interest rates I hope a lot of others start getting some offers as well.

Hanna Park has cabins for rent for $33.90 per day - Hanna Park Campground . We stay at Hanna Park when in Jax.

YAY!!! Great news!!! I really do know the feeling. I'm so happy for you guys.

Yes, we have started looking @ Hannah Park. As a matter of fact we live about 3 miles from Hannah.. Checked there website and cabins are 20.00.. I called for info. but they are closed for the day.. i wondered first if they will accept dogs and if cabins were available.. Especially winter time with all the snowbirds..

Now here is the problem.. the realtor came with the new contract for our counter offer.. They agreed to the new contract BUT, ( why is there always a BUT) loll now says that the bank will only loan them the amount of the appraisal and they do not have any extra cash on hand.  Now remember we are throwing in almost all the furniture..
Soo they wanted to make it clear to us that if the appraisal goes below our counter would we agree to sell.. We agreed  but if it goes anywhere between the bottom figure and top figure we will have to negotiate the contract. 
Darn, why does it have to be soo difficult..they have ordered the inspection for tomorrow afternoon, the appraisal next week..

Ohhhhhh we will all think positive here and all will go well.

termite inspection and house inspection today at 1:30 crossfingers..

We had 3 different appraisals. The first one the guy added the price of the furniture because we said we were leaving some of it, the second one was because of the first guy adding the price of the furniture and the 3rd one was because the buyer had to change over to a FHA loan. Even though we were selling the house as is we still had to have (and pay for) an inspection. The termite inspection found some dry rot on 2 of the boards on the eaves (nothing to do with termites) and the inspector said he could repair it for $2,000. Hmmmm, how convenient.    We asked if we could include the cost at closing and he said we could.  Funny thing is that it didn't show up in the closing costs.   Needless to say we didn't ask.  We had 3 months of riding the rollercoaster.  I don't wish what we went through on anybody.  We wondered why we didn't kill each other during this and we figured out that we had a common bond.  It was US against THEM.  Keep that in mind as you go through this process.  Afterall, you DO live in Florida and you know what I mean by that...........