売りに出して1年、いまだオファーがひとつもなく売れないで残っていた我が家に買いオファーが入った。かなり低いオファーだったので最初はあまり真剣にとらなかったけれど、交渉が少しずつ進みなんとか売れそう！昨日不動産屋から電話があり、とにかく自分たちの希望額を入れて好きなように契約書の内容も変えてサインして送ってくれとのこと。買い手はローンの利率がここ１，２日で上がりそうなので契約を急いでいるらしい。我が家は夫婦ふたりの名義なので、ふたりのサインが必要なのだけど、この電話の時点では主人は東海岸への飛行機の中。バージニアの不動産屋からカリフォルニアの私に送られてきた契約書を手直ししサインしたものをスキャンしてメールで主人に送り、ニュージャージーのホテルに着いた主人がプリントしてサインしてFAXでバージニアの不動産屋に戻したのが昨夜。今朝、それを買い手に提示することに。神様、みこころでしたら、うまく行きますように！
Our house has been on the market for a little less than a year. We hadn't received a single offer yet. A few days ago, we did receive the very first offer. It was a very low offer, so we did not take it seriously at first, but somehow things developed from one thing to another. Yesterday I received a call from our real estate agent in Virginia, saying that we should go ahead and change whatever necessary on the contract, sign it and return it to them. The offeror is worrying that the mortgage interest is going up pretty soon. Our house is in both of our names, so the contract requires two signatures. My husband, however, was in the midst of cross-continent flight to Princeton, NJ on that day. So I made the modification on the contract that our agent sent us in California, sign it, scan it and e-mailed it to my husband, who print it out as soon as he arrived in a hotel in NJ and faxed it back to our agent in Virginia. This morning, she is going to deliver it to the offeror. May God's plan done!
