Another life event. Good, but bittersweet

[rgG]

My mom passed away in 2023 and my daughter and I had to clear out her house and outbuildings, which took a long time. My mom was what I would call a neat and organized horder/collector.

Anyway, we have had the house listed for almost a year now, and it finally sold. miley-music039:

It is in a small town about 100 miles east of Atlanta and I knew it was probably going to take a long time to sell, and it did. It also needed mostly cosmetic updating and I wasn’t going to do that before the sale, so that didn’t help. Rising interest rates were also an issue, although it was a modest house, but we were lucky the person who finally purchased it was paying cash.

We didn’t get as much for it as I know my mom would have hoped, but she and my dad built the house and she lived in it for over 40 years, so that was its true value. If it had been in an area that I would have wanted to move to or that my daughter would have wanted to be, at some point, we might have kept it and renovated it, but unfortunately neither of us would want to live there or vacation there, not a vacation spot, so it needed to be sold.

It’s a huge relief to me to not have to worry about something happening to it and I don’t have the upkeep and maintenance and ongoing utility and insurance bills to deal with.

Just thought I would share. Yet another chapter of my life closed.

Also, my parents built the house after I had already graduated from college and moved away, so I never lived there. It had more sentimental value to my daughter, who spent so much time there with her favorite grandparents. She and my mom had a very special bond.

[Rick-o]

Congrats! I know full well about your situation. A lot of us have been in the same boat.

I always worried about my Dad's place, when it was my responsibility, that was 100 miles away. I was so glad when I didn't have to do it any longer.

[Speedy]

Congrats on the sale.

[rgG]

Rick-o wrote:
Congrats! I know full well about your situation. A lot of us have been in the same boat.

I always worried about my Dad's place, when it was my responsibility, that was 100 miles away. I was so glad when I didn't have to do it any longer.

Yep, mom’s place was a little over 100 miles away, just far enough to be very inconvenient.

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Congratulations. Sounds like there were some good memories made there.

[Numo]

rgG wrote:
Also, my parents built the house after I had already graduated from college and moved away, so I never lived there. It had more sentimental value to my daughter, who spent so much time there with her favorite grandparents. She and my mom had a very special bond.

Very sweet. I never knew how much grandparents mattered until I saw how much my daughters loved my mom and dad (and vice versa). I grew up with only one grandparent and she wasn’t very keen on kids so their bond was a big surprise to me.

[Michael]

It's great that it sold! Our daughter had a real connection with my in-laws, as well.

My in-laws moved to Thomson, GA (a bit over 100 miles east of Atlanta) from Wisconsin back in 1986 just after our kid--their first grandchild--was born. He was a shop teacher in WI and got cancer, retired and planned to die. But he lived! So, they moved to Thomson to start his teaching career again. We were there pretty regularly, driving 150 miles and through Atlanta to their place. Our daughter demanded to "Go see grandma and grandpa!" pretty regularly. They lived there for 10 years for him to get vested in Teacher's Retirement then he retired again and they moved back to WI. Where she lived for another 25 years and he another 30 years. And our trips to see them became 800 miles each way!

Thomson was a pretty sad area when they were there. They did (do?) have a lot of camelias in the town and they're pretty. There's a county museum there that's fine. But, that's about all, it seems to me. We haven't been back since they moved.

[rgG]

Michael wrote:
It's great that it sold! Our daughter had a real connection with my in-laws, as well.

My in-laws moved to Thomson, GA (a bit over 100 miles east of Atlanta) from Wisconsin back in 1986 just after our kid--their first grandchild--was born. He was a shop teacher in WI and got cancer, retired and planned to die. But he lived! So, they moved to Thomson to start his teaching career again. We were there pretty regularly, driving 150 miles and through Atlanta to their place. Our daughter demanded to "Go see grandma and grandpa!" pretty regularly. They lived there for 10 years for him to get vested in Teacher's Retirement then he retired again and they moved back to WI. Where she lived for another 25 years and he another 30 years. And our trips to see them became 800 miles each way!

Thomson was a pretty sad area when they were there. They did (do?) have a lot of camelias in the town and they're pretty. There's a county museum there that's fine. But, that's about all, it seems to me. We haven't been back since they moved.

Thomson is about 20 miles from Washington, GA, where my mom lived. I know it well. If you live in Washington, Thomson is the closest town that has real stores to shop in. Lol.
My mom and my daughter, and my dad, before he died, used to go to Thomson to the Waffle House to eat. To this day, my 33 year old daughter had to go there one last time when we were cleaning out the house. Funny what memories matter to you, as you get older. Lol

My daughter often bemoans the fact that there are no Waffle Houses in all of the greater NYC area. The closest to her is in PA. We have to go at least once each time she comes home to ATL

[wave rider]

Congrats on the sale and the opening of a new chapter…

[AllGold]

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