August 2007 we put our house in Oxford on the market. It was a lovely house. We’d renovated it, worked on it, loved it…we hired a girl who was a part-time Realtor (didn’t know that at the time) and a single mom of two. I personally thought she’d be a go getter.

She overpriced our home and didn’t sell it. Once a house has been marked as overpriced, it’s really hard to get people to look at it, even when you reprice it to right number. Another Realtor and a year later, we finally took it off the market and rented it for 6 months.

This time around, we made a much better choice. Our house sold in 3 months and even though we didn’t come out ahead (how could we after 2 years?) we now no longer own a home in Oxford, Miss.

I will miss that house (especially my awesome kitchen) but I said goodbye to it a long time ago. Now it’s someone else’s home. I hope they love it as much as we did.