A lesson in
perseverance? A haunting? A house that just doesn’t want to let go? Who knows?
After putting our house on the market last year and not getting any bites, we buried a statue of St Joseph in the yard and listed it again this past spring. We dropped the price dramatically, spruced it up and waited for a bite. A buyer came along and we were given 45 days to close. Just before that buyer and right after the offer, things just started to “happen”.
1. A tree limb fell taking a wire with it and causing a power surge. The food in the refrigerator and freezers was lost. The surge took the microwave, the tv cable boxes, radios, lamps and the router.
2.
The
motor in the spa stopped working.
3.
A tree
limb fell in the front yard taking the wires to the new router that was ruined
the week before.
4.
A
fox fell into our basement window well and died. No one knew that until it
started to smell and the friendly neighborhood maggots moved into the basement.
5.
The
infant maggots quickly grew into full grown flies. There were hundreds, maybe
thousands of them.
6.
Three
inches of rain one day caused the gutters to overflow. The excess water went
into a basement window and onto the finished basement.
7.
A
bat flew into the kitchen one evening as we were cleaning up after one of our
yard sales.
8.
The
garbage disposal stopped running and the kitchen sink wouldn’t drain.
Eventually it did but…
9.
The
clothes washer filled up with dirty water. It turns out that the water was from
the kitchen sink that wouldn’t drain.
10. While cleaning out the basement and
reaching for a picture on a higher shelf, two dead mice fell to the floor.
We sold the
snake to clean the drain at our yard sale for fifty cents and the wrench to
open the pipe for a quarter. It’s off to Home Depot again. I can’t seem to find
the St. Joseph statue that I planted and will leave it for the new buyers and
hope that they don’t have any of this nonsense. We have one more week before
the closing. I’m hoping that the hurricane out in the Atlantic doesn’t make a
left at New Jersey and decide to throw us a going away party.
