As most of you know I've been having to sell our family land because of daddy's death. Well the sale became final yesterday and I got the check today. I have been so torn over this. On the one hand, since we had no choice in doing this I am so glad that it's finally over and done with and I have the check and can finish everything. On the other hand, having to lose the land is killing me. I know I will always have my memories of it but to think that someone else owns what was in my family for so long just hurts so much. I know daddy always said if needs be he would sell it if something came up that we needed the money for, and he would have approved of what we did but I still feel like such a failure for not being able to keep it in the family. But at least I can take care of paying daddy's final expenses and be done with everything.
I will say I got so lucky in my real estate agent. A man I went to school with from the first day of daycare to the day we graduated high school together [I was 4th in the class and he was 5th} became a real estate agent and he has been a godsend. He took care of everything so well for me. He's located where our land is which is 2 hours away so we had to do most of it long distance. He even drove the 2 hours on Tuesday to bring the paperwork to me and my brother to sign the deed over. He's so good that after I had hired him as my agent he had the land sold within 24 hours!!! Made a couple of calls to a few people on a short list and one of them was interested, accepted my asking price with no haggling and had cash to pay for it so no worries about loan approval. Umfortunately, we all signed the agreement contract back in April and are just now getting to close because of legal c*r*a*p and some lollygagging on the part of the closing attorney and my attorney also. But it was so comforting to have someone I knew and trusted to take care of everything for me. Can't imagine having to deal with someone, especially long distance, that I didn't really know.
Even though it hurts to no longer own the property, at least now that this is over I feel like I can move forward a little bit. I've had so much on me for months now having to deal with all this that it's felt like a huge weight weighing me down. I have a few questions for my lawyer and a couple of things to take care of but at least the worst {I hope} is over. I haven't yet been able to deal with daddy's death itself because of everything but I hope I can start to feel a little normal again. I hope so anyway.
Well, thanks for listening gals. Just wanted you all to know what's been going on. Hugs to you all!
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