Relocate to Wisconsin : Short Sale Tales...Coming to Grips with the Important Things

   We went on a listing appointment for a short sale at house that had been listed for over a million dollars...it has custom everything. Soaring ceilings with triple trays and cherry crown molding, double sided fireplaces with marble surrounds and cherry mantles with custom applied carving...a dining room with built in cabinets and a warming drawer...2 whirlpool tubs, a spa shower...an indoor basketball court and exercise room, multiple patios and decks overlooking a pond framed in woods....skylights...you name it and if this house doesn't have it...it probably hasn't been invented to date.

   Mr. Seller made apologies as he needed to tidy some areas....and confessed to having some depression...his divorce and salary reduction of almost 75% had put him in the position of considering a short sale. "You know," he said his voice starting to quiver after he explained his "upside down" condition, "I have a 3 year old daughter,....and she is my world...none of this trimmings and trappings are really important.  If there has been any benefit to all that has happened...it has been that I have re-ordered my priorities.  When my credit is fixed, this sale is complete and I can buy a house again...I am choosing a simpler life...to enjoy my daughter...that's what's REALLY important." 

   If there is a silver lining to a short sale...that would surely be it....Avoiding foreclosure is a womderful thing and we are proud to be able to help people do just that. There own realization of newly ordered priorities is a gift they have given themselves...and it is truly priceless.