The Journey Toward a New House...... Or Whatever Possessed Us to Buy a 150-Year-Old Home!

We started out for Prayer Meeting that Wednesday night in February and the weather was clear.  By the time we reached our destination, the snow was steadily falling.  At the potluck dinner, one of the Elders asked me what it would take to get us to move to Poland, NY.  I promptly replied, "It would take a miracle."  And his response- "Well, that's what we pray for around here." 

So the church fellowship started praying. 

Poland is an older village filled with older homes with the dreams and hopes of being renovated.  I went to an Open House in April and knew this particular house was not for us.  But the realitor set up an appointement to view another house further down the street.  Tom went back with me a second time to look, but we were not willing to pay the price being asked.

11 years earlier we moved into a neighbor of 1900 Folk Victorian houses that were being renovated.  We loved working on our house, learning how to sheetrock, do electrical work, plumbing, etc... (oh....should I say my husband learned)  We also did a huge attic renovation to make a suite for our 3 teenage daughters.  But we soon became the only ones in the neighborhood working on improvements and the condition of the neighborhood began to decline. Friends who moved from the same neighborhood advised us to contact their realitor before we made any more improvements for the sake of resale.  This was great advice.

The realitor said not to do a thing and he would sell the house in a month.   We thought this was a bit pompous considering the stagnation of the housing market.  He also took a look at the house in Poland that we liked.  He found out the people were anxious to sell this property and we proceeded to put in a much lower bid.  They accepted.

What!!  We put our house on the market and the first people to look at it bought it- at our asking price.  It all happened in a period of 10 days.

Now, our family is not known for making quick changes.  We analyze and evaluate things "to death."  But this was God's work.  It was our little miracle.

 

So here we are enjoying our new little life and thanking God for making our change so very clear.