house selling update

i wish i had better news since jeremy has already moved up to beantown and the pups and i are still here, but... still nothing back from the couple who was scoping out houses for their daughter. our realtor has emailed them a couple of times but has gotten no response. we think our suspicions were correct that they were just snoopers with a cover story as not to seem like snoopers. oh well. then we got excited on sunday when we got a call from our realtor (at 11 a.m.) saying that one of the other realtors in his firm wanted to show the house to some of his clients at noon. as much as it sucks to scramble to get the house cleaned, vacuumed, dusted etc., get dressed, load all the pets in the car, and get out in under an hour - it's the only way this place is going to sell. we were out by 11:30, grabbed some limeade, and camped out in the parking lot across the street to wait. the couple and their realtor came right around noon and were in the house for a decent amount of time. good sign, right? wrong. this couple was yet another who is looking for an older home with older home charm and quirks. it kills me. our house is only 6 years old - you know that. you know that's not what you want. why look??? glad we scrambled so they could see it (rolling eyes) oh well, shot down again. we asked our realtor to provide us with a list of all the houses for sale in the neighborhood, the prices, and how long they've been on the market. there's 9 active houses in our tiny neighborhood now and most have been on the market about as long as we have. there are 4 houses with contracts pending and about 4 more that have sold recently. so stuff is selling. but then you look at what is selling. the 8 houses that have sold are either the really small/cheap houses (closer to 200K with ~1000 square feet) or the really, really nice houses (400K+ and 2000+ square feet). nothing in the middle range is moving. roo's arrival is getting closer and closer. and i really really really don't want to live in an apartment, at least not for long. so we decided to drop the price a bit more to see if that does it. but that's as low as we can go to leave room for negotiation. it is now priced below tax assessment. hopefully this will stir up some action. if not we'll have to just let it sit while we rent an apartment or try to rent it out and put it back on the market when the it starts to pick back up. i really dislike the sub prime people who couldn't pay their mortgages and the foolish lenders who thought they would. (and this comes from a girl who sends credit card offers to sub prime people for a living.) darn you fools.