Manifesting

15 years ago I had been the weekend key girl at Houlihan/Lawrence Real Estate in Bronxville.  I opened the agent list online and I pondered who to get in touch with: Lynn Joyce!  Always calm, always cool, always collected, I knew that she would be able to refer me to a fellow agent who worked up-county, as most of the listings within our hypothetical price-range were in northern Westchester.  Lynn was pleased that I had reached out to her and we caught up on all the life changes that had taken place since she had been the recipient of emails I sent while traipsing around New Zealand 5 years earlier.  She referred me to Diane Ryan and it seems that within days, we were looking at 4 houses in Peekskill and Ossining. 

The house with the barn converted into a 3-car garage had of course made the cut as did one with a dirt floor basement, a third with a severe water damage, and finally one short sale home that would require total gutting.  The 3-car garage home didn't have to try very hard to charm us with its original 1890s wood staircase and door frames, expansive, but overgrown backyard, and dated, but functional appliances.

As with most wonderful things in life, the way we felt about the home was powerful and unexpected.  We were falling in love with the house.