Just sent the agent the paperwork to drop the price on the house in Florida again. We’ve been dropping the price once a month ($10K at a shot) and this is the third drop. We were below the average price per square foot in the area with our FIRST price, but things are just so slow there at the moment. Very few buyers, but lots on the market. (The last “very interested” person ended up going for a house about the same size, but MORE expensive and about 20 years newer.)

We’re really hoping that at this new price it will move. We have more room before we get to the level that we’d have to write a check at closing instead of getting one… that isn’t the pinch point. The pinch point is how long we can run on a month to month cash flow deficit before we have no more cash to flow. I think we’ve got a couple more months, but not much longer than that, I don’t have much left in reserve at this point.

And yes, we could drop the price all the way to our break even point in one fell swoop and hopefully sell right away and at least be done with the mortgage payments and utilities and such, but we do not want to be leaving money on the table either. We’ve still got SOME time left… just not a huge amount.

And yeah, we’re also aware of the problem with dropping the price too much and getting the “there must be something wrong with it if they keep dropping it” effect, but hey, we’re what you call “motivated sellers” and all that. :-)

I missed noting when it passed 10%, cause while I had heard there was a place you could find out, I hadn’t bothered to find it yet. But now I have and of course that means I will keep track. And perhaps note it here when I pass certain milestones.

In any case, I started at my current company on 11 Jan 2006. It is now 31 Jul 2006. Just about six and a half months later.

At this point 12.09% of the employees of my company were hired after I was.

Interesting.

This is the time lapse of my webcam from Saturday when the movers were doing their unloading thing. The first frame with movers is at 15:01:11 UTC and the last is at 20:19:57 UTC.

This is a 5.2 MB file, so it will take a while to load. And of course it needs Quicktime.

The rest of the day we can be seen moving around and unloading some of the boxes. And of course we are still doing so now if you look live. This will assuredly continue for several days yet, if not longer.

At 15:00 UTC today (Saturday), about 10 hours and 15 minutes from the time I am making this post… the movers will be arriving in Bellevue to deposit that portion of our stuff which will be coming to our apartment. The camera will be pointed in the general direction of the living room of the apartment. So those interested will be able to watch as stuff arrives. I know that will be thrilling and exciting for everyone. The time lapse view after the day is over might be fun too. Or not.