I forgot to mention this rather important news: we finally received our official possession date letter! We take possession on January 31st. One week later than estimated, but we're ok with that. We're still not quite ready anyway. :-)

Selling our condo has been quite a challenge - we've had nineteen showings, and no offers. It's been a really busy month so far, four showings in nine days, but we don't get any feedback about why there are no offers. The entire "realtor thing" is a mystery to me. Excuse me while I rant...

When I'm selling something, I SELL it. I'll work hard to communicate with the buyer, find out what their needs are, and highlight the features of the product that will meet their needs. Ads that I write up for ebay typically get a good response because I know why someone would be interested in that product.

Now when it comes to the condo, here's how it goes: I tell my realtor the features, and "sell" him on it. He writes it all down and creates a nice summary sheet that tries to "sell" it to the person reading. But then that's it - as far as I know, the realtor doesn't do anything more. My realtor doesn't show the condo to the prospective buyer - it's just the other realtor with their client. It's like me trying to sell the condo via a double proxy. The worst part is that we never get any feedback about the showing - what they liked, what they didn't like, etc. That makes is hard to improve the condo for the next prospective buyer - if there's something simple we can alter inside the condo to make it more attractive to a buyer, we would certainly try. This condo has some great features and upgrades that we've done to it, but I never know if those things get mentioned when the condo is shown. Frustrating!