Our house will officially be on the market beginning Friday evening. The realtor is coming over to take pictures, install a lock box, and have us complete some paperwork. Jim and I have been working our tails off in an attempt to make the place look halfway presentable. I still have some major de-cluttering and dusting to do before the agent arrives, but all in all the house looks ok.
An automotive transport company is also swinging by today to pick up Jim's car. His company is paying to ship the Civic to Texas. And really, they must send it by ship or some other very slow method of transportation, because it will not arrive in Houston until December 30. We are not allowed to keep any personal items in the car, but we are going to be rebellious and put a few things in the trunk. We'll see if they notice.
As far as our saline/chlorine pool issue goes at the Texas house, our realtor has apologized profusely and taken complete responsibility for the error. He alleges that the owners at some point told him that the pool was saltwater, but the sellers claim that they never said any such thing. We found it a bit strange that the homeowners did not question and/or correct our realtor's sales flyer, which clearly stated "SALINE Pool" - yes, in caps like that - but we are not going to worry about it now. (Although we probably could insist that the sellers switch the pool over to saline because it is written in our sales contract as such.) When I questioned our pool guy last week about the likelihood of our exposed pool pipes actually bursting in the event of freezing temps, he admitted that it would take about 5 or 6 hours of below 32 degree weather to damage them. The big problem is apparently not with the pool pump & filter, but rather with the heater, which has smaller copper pipes that are more vulnerable to low temperatures than the larger plastic ones. Fortunately, Houston has had seasonal conditions lately, with lows in the 40s and 50s.
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