The Landlanders may be relocating after all! We are now under contract to sell our house. A huge relief for me and Tom, and an unknown relief for the cats and dog -- this means they likely will not have to vacate the premises for showings anymore!

The Landlanders are very, very busy these days. Still processing/negotiating inspection results/responses; still showing our house (crating up cats and loading them, plus the dog, into the car while the house is shown); still in limbo because of the aforementioned situations.

On top of the real estate issues, which occasionally leave us sleepless, I have started back to teaching, on top of working in the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society archive, PLUS I am in training to start teaching online for Kaplan. My head is spinning such that even when physically exhausted, I can't relax enough to nap in the occasional spare minutes I can find. *sigh*

Hopefully we will see some house action on one or both fronts before long!

We've been through the home inspection process yet again. This time we used a different inspector, as our first inspector is currently recovering from surgery. We followed his recommendation to get the second inspector, and he gave us a dry and somewhat dark overview of the house. Lots of little nagging maintenance issues that have to be addressed.

So we've submitted our requests to the sellers and are hoping to find common ground; this is where the seller of our first contracted house became unreasonable and the deal fell through. We are hopeful this time will go much more smoothly.