RE: /gardening/the elderly and home sales...

or chocolate chip cookies- even the pillsbuty packaged/refridgerator kind
smell great when cooking- and all you have to do it plop them on a cookie
sheet- no mixing required!

Theresa

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:58 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] /gardening/the elderly and home sales...


If the bread doesn't work, Mardi, try a little vanilla in the tea
kettle.

On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 10:21 AM,
<mlrasmus@rockwellcollins.com> wrote:

>> Mardi, what has you mom done to try to get the property to move?  I
>> take
> it
> the realtor wasn't the problem?
>
> Bonnie, she lowered the price about 10% and is putting in new tile in
> kitchen/bathroom and new carpet in the rest of the house.  Probably
> around
> $4,000 worth.  Carpet and radiant floor heating is just DUMB but that's
> what the folks going through wanted to see.  She had everything
> repainted
> when she moved out the first time.  I do think her realtor is part of
> the
> problem.
>
> I hate to say it, but one of the best things she did was move back.
> Now
> when someone comes to tour the house she puts a loaf of bread in the
> oven,
> and has the rest of the house set up like a model home.  The dining
> table
> is set for a holiday feast with nice dishes and stemware, and one of my
> quilts for a tablecloth.  The second bedroom is a working office.
> She's
> had more people going through since she moved back.  Keep your fingers
> crossed.  Even at a spry 84 years old, I want her closer.
> Mardi
> Iowa z4b
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