When wanting to start a New Year off on the right foot, a breakdown isn’t exactly what you’d call the right foot!
Breakdown, meltdown, whatever you’d like to call it, doesn’t really matter.
The end result is, I needed 48 hours of “mental health break” to come to grips with our reality at the moment.
We received some bad news the other day about our property assessments (which we are fighting) that just about knocked my husband and I flat on our a$$e$.
TOTALLY unexpected, and we were TOTALLY unprepared for it. We expected our assessments to go up, not down, and certainly not DRASTICALLY down by tens of thousands of dollars.
If you’re not trying to sell your home so that your family, which has been split apart for six months now, can be together again under one roof, you might LIKE the idea of your tax assessment going down by tens of thousands of dollars! It means lower tax payments!
However, when you’re about at your wits end with trying to sell your place, when you’ve already hit rock bottom in lowering your house price to try and get it sold AS SOON AS POSSIBLE before you loose that teeny tiny thread of sanity you still have left between all the gray hairs you’ve now acquired…
Well, when your property assessment drops by tens of thousands of dollars in THAT situation, that teeny tiny thread of sanity begins to stretch REAL thin.
And that’s what happened here this week. I’d say that thread of sanity pretty much snapped.
However, after a 48 hour break, some words with the tax assessment office explaining why they had better get their butts over here to take a look at ALL THE FARKING IMPROVEMENTS WE’VE SPENT THOUSANDS ON (thousands that broke us, I might add, silly people we can be, daring to think it would help SELL our home…) before deciding our property has decreased in value by tens of thousands…
and after spending some time with my children, getting our minds, our home, and lives back on track, I feel a little better.
Not quite to the point I feel I can carry on with all this much longer, but at least to the point that I can carry on today.
And today is good enough for now. I’ll worry about tomorrow, when I wake up in the morning.
I’m so sorry.
Is there an ad for your place I could look at posted somewhere?
I pray it will sell soooon!
Don’t give up, it will turn around!
You are such a strong person, woman, to carry on day after day without your husband by your side. I know that God has a plan for you and I know you are so ready for him to lay it all out there for you to see. Hang in there and know you are an inspiration to all of us in the group!!
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