Well we met with Don on Thursday evening to talk about where we are going on our purchase of his parents farm............
I had seen him earlier in the week when we had a realotor go out to do a broker appraisal to determine fair market value. And we are well within the value of the farm with our offer.
The short story here is we (and that's mostly me - Cindy is enthused but tired of having the house for sale and costantly worried something could go wrong and we'd end up homeless - not as funny as it sounds, as we are pushing our economic envelope to the edge!) are manic in our desire to get the farm purchased. But with 2009 being an economic bomb for us, about the only way we can reasonably expect to purchase the farm is if Don and his sister are willing to take back the mortgage.
Which is exactly what I proposed to them on Thursday.
I offered to buy the farm at the agreed on price, with a small down payment, reasonable interest, and a twenty year payment plan.
Please God let them accept our offer!
The next big challenge will be to get our home sold, but we have dropped the price in the hopes of getting some interest generated there.
I hope we can get on the farm before spring is over, I have lots of plans in my head for fences, what we'd like to do with the house, and barns, where I might get a few cows to start a herd..........
But for now we wait.
and contemplate, and dream of furrows turned, and firewood cut, and gardens grown, and a life simpler, yet harder too............