Do you believe in being in the right place at the right time? Have you ever felt that you were guided to a certain place in time because something was supposed to happen just then?
Well, that's how we felt last weekend. We originally had plans for our Labor Day weekend, which included going to the Red Sox game on Sunday afternoon. We thought, however that our house was about to sell, so we decided to be responsible and stay home, pack and do other moving related things. So we gave away our baseball tickets.
The deal on the house all of a sudden looked like it was going to fall through, and we didn't dare start packing if we didn't need to. We were left with not much to do over the holiday weekend, and decided to head up to the land and try again to find some of the boundary markers.
As we pulled in, we met the only neighbors that we had not yet met. We spent quite a bit of time talking to them, and they helped us determine where some of the boundary markers were. We thought it was great luck to have run into them. Their information and our hard work allowed us to find all the front markers. We were thrilled.
We then moved into the lot and planned on spending whatever time it took to find one particular marker further back. We had scoured the land on the previous visit and had no luck. A recent conversation with the owner assured is the iron pin was indeed there. As we walked close to area we thought it would be, I immediately saw it. I was so excited that we found what we had looked so hard for previously.
After spending some time at the land, we both indicated that we really do love it there and decided that this was the place we want to build a house and spend the rest of our lives. Happy with our decision, we spent some time just sitting and enjoying the view.
On our way out, we met up with the nearest neighbors. The remembered us from our previous visit, and told us that they knew the owner of the land had just accepted an offer on one of the two lots and would be signing the P&S the following day. We felt incredibly lucky to have run into them and that they were willing to share the information they had. Because of our good fortune, we were able to immediately contact the seller and make an offer on both the lots that we wanted. And lucky too that the owner was willing to accept our offer.
So we have signed a P&S on the land and we are thrilled. We feel that we were in the right place at the right time. We were meant to be there and we were meant to get that information.
It's unfortunate that the deal on our house is still in limbo and we aren't entirely sure if we will sell in time to close on the land. It's not the way we wanted the transactions to go, but it will all be fine. Things don't always go according to plan, and I can always use a lesson in patients.
