Negotiations

We're in the midst of a tennis-like volley of offers and counter offers with our would-be buyers. As you recall, their first offer was in insult to us and our intelligence. So we countered much closer to what we were asking. They countered back with a lower price, much better though, and dropped all their crazy concessional demands. This would be their final offer, they said.

But we met this couple as they were coming out of our house for the second showing, and we were just arriving at home. The woman told Heather in no uncertain terms how much she liked the house.

Big mistake. Now we know that they will do just about anything to get into this place and it helps us in negotiations. It's like war, really...any gleaned information can be used to our advantage.

With that in mind, we re-analyzed the economics of this and it still required too much sacrifice on our part, so last night we made OUR final offer, which is within about $5k of our asking price.

We're waiting for an answer...

If they do accept this offer, it is still a very risky venture. We're bringing a big bulging bag of cash to closing in the hopes that we will get to take revenge for this pain on the seller we buy from. The big picture. That's what were thinking about. In the long run it will be worth it. But in the short term, it will be difficult.

Does anyone have any millet recipes?