Speaker 1: All right, it's Mojo in the Morning. So Shannon, I
Speaker 1: got to get an update from you. Where we last
Speaker 1: left the Mojo in the Morning show. Is Shannon going
Speaker 1: to get a house? What's going to go on? What
Speaker 1: we put an.
Speaker 2: Offer on that house? Which we did?
Speaker 3: Did I I didn't even tell you guys this because
Speaker 3: you were here and you were not here Mojo. But
Speaker 3: last week West and I did put an offer on it,
Speaker 3: and we put an offer on it, and I wrote
Speaker 3: a letter to the homeowner and dropped it off.
Speaker 4: Which I really wanted it. Yeah, what did the letter say?
Speaker 3: Well, the offer that we made on this house and
Speaker 3: this if you missed it, like super long story Shore
Speaker 3: is just there are there are those certain houses that
Speaker 3: you see and I'm like, gosh, if that ever goes
Speaker 3: up for sale, I want a chance. I just want
Speaker 3: to walk through it, which we did. But the letter
Speaker 3: basically said that we knew our offer was I mean,
Speaker 3: it was way lower than the asking price, but the
Speaker 3: house had been on the market for a while. So
Speaker 3: in my gut, I was like maybe at this point,
Speaker 3: like we kind of actually knew this already. There she
Speaker 3: wanted to get rid of it, were like, you know,
Speaker 3: introduced who we were and just noted the fact that
Speaker 3: we know our offer was below the asking price, but
Speaker 3: like we could see our family here, you know, all
Speaker 3: the all the tugging at the heart string things.
Speaker 2: So put in an offer, wrote.
Speaker 3: The letter and kind of knew in my heart that
Speaker 3: it wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 2: And it didn't happen.
Speaker 3: We got a text saying we didn't get it, which
Speaker 3: when Wes Wes was the one that got the text
Speaker 3: from our realtor who's a friend of mine, and my
Speaker 3: heart sunk because I was I was more disappointed than
Speaker 3: I thought I would be about it, like because I
Speaker 3: knew it was such a pipe dream to even do
Speaker 3: this and move and the kids had no the kids
Speaker 3: still have no idea.
Speaker 2: Please got its listening well, but that's not.
Speaker 3: Like the end all be all, So I would have
Speaker 3: taken them through it then, and you know a lot
Speaker 3: of things happen even after an offer gets accepted that
Speaker 3: you're you know, you're not stuck. But I was really
Speaker 3: just pointed and through talking to Wes, I feel like
Speaker 3: doing this with this house kind of did a real
Speaker 3: like wonders for our relationship and not that we were
Speaker 3: in a bad place or anything.
Speaker 2: But I feel like.
Speaker 3: The whole process of doing this like brought us closer together.
Speaker 3: Just working together to get everything done with the bank
Speaker 3: that we needed to show and sitting and pouring over
Speaker 3: our finances and like writing out numbers and budgets and
Speaker 3: dreaming of what we would do with the house and
Speaker 3: like renovations. And he's very hands on and he's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I would want to do this myself, and this myself,
Speaker 3: and we could spend weekends doing this and that was
Speaker 3: really fun for us. And so as bumped as I was,
Speaker 3: he sent me a text and he was like, Hey,
Speaker 3: I just want to let you know I'm really happy
Speaker 3: we even attempted to do this, and I'm really proud
Speaker 3: of us. I'm okay with how it played out because
Speaker 3: I've never felt more aligned with you.
Speaker 2: This was all a way win, yeah.
Speaker 3: And I was like, Okay, Like I do, I do
Speaker 3: see that and feel that way, even though I'm still
Speaker 3: really bummed, But I'm like, the silver lining is I
Speaker 3: think for him it was the fact that I was
Speaker 3: I was the one that got the ball rolling. I
Speaker 3: was the one willing to step away from the house
Speaker 3: that I've lived in for ten years and do this
Speaker 3: very big thing together.
Speaker 1: That's great because the last time that you guys looked
Speaker 1: at homes there wasn't it seemed like you guys both
Speaker 1: on the same page.
Speaker 3: Correct, And we were very much on the same page
Speaker 3: with this. And to him, he didn't want to get
Speaker 3: the house the last time, rud No, I didn't.
Speaker 4: You didn't want I didn't. Oh you didn't want to?
Speaker 2: And then I kind and then I kind of switched
Speaker 2: and was like, well, wait, I actually do. So it
Speaker 2: was it's just been.
Speaker 3: A process, and he was like taking a step back.
Speaker 3: This is this was like our first big thing. I
Speaker 3: mean obviously aside from getting married, but like that we
Speaker 3: were we were going to do together when we were
Speaker 3: both on board.
Speaker 1: Do you is it so when you don't get something
Speaker 1: like if you don't you know get that like people
Speaker 1: buy you know, a car or something like that, or
Speaker 1: you you know, looking at do you now go back
Speaker 1: to your house and not like your house that you're
Speaker 1: in right now?
Speaker 3: Honestly the opposite. I feel really grateful for my house.
Speaker 3: But there are also so many projects that we've been
Speaker 3: putting off, putting off, putting off them, like okay, this
Speaker 3: is green light that we are going to you know,
Speaker 3: until I see another house that I like. We're going
Speaker 3: to be here for a while, and we should greenlight
Speaker 3: these projects and get them done.
Speaker 4: I love that y'all had that moment though. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2: It was for us, and it was needed for us.
Speaker 2: It was needed for.
Speaker 1: Us that would think that would have been wild if
Speaker 1: that letter that you wrote, though, made this person go,
Speaker 1: you know what, We're going to give them this house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're not going to pay for it at all.
Speaker 5: My house.
Speaker 2: Trust me.
Speaker 5: I wrote a letter and I way underbid everybody, and
Speaker 5: they were so moved by my letter that they accepted
Speaker 5: my offers.
Speaker 4: Are you serious so that happened?
Speaker 5: Theots you don't take?
Speaker 4: Did you? Did you embellish the letter at all?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: I was actually just genuine.
Speaker 4: What have you said that?
Speaker 5: Obviously I'm in Florida, there's things. I'm a Hispanic female,
Speaker 5: so there's like an avocado, a mango tree. These are
Speaker 5: things that I've had in my grandparents' house, in my
Speaker 5: dad's house, and just things that reminded me of being
Speaker 5: with my dad who's no longer here. And I said,
Speaker 5: he would have loved this backyard. He gardens he grew
Speaker 5: fruit and trees and things like that, and just kind
Speaker 5: of let him know about the area and like her,
Speaker 5: I can see my family in this house. We can
Speaker 5: make so many memories in it, and we understand it's
Speaker 5: not the perfect house, but we're going to make it
Speaker 5: our perfect house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it just went like that, and then the realtor
Speaker 5: came back and told us she's like they were crying.
Speaker 5: They accepted your offer. And I was like, you miss
Speaker 5: one hundred percent of the shots. You don't take.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you about to start writing.
Speaker 3: I think for this one it didn't work because these
Speaker 3: people weren't attached to the house.
Speaker 2: They've only lived there for a few years. Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Like they raised their family there and their grandkids and
Speaker 3: it was not that situation.
Speaker 2: But I still wrote it anyway.
Speaker 1: You know, if somebody told me the other day when
Speaker 1: because it's hard, the market still doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of inventory out there, somebody said, you got to look
Speaker 1: at the death notices to see who's who.
Speaker 4: Grant like Granny died.
Speaker 1: Because because they say that the because the generational people
Speaker 1: that are that have held on to homes for such
Speaker 1: a long period of time and then grandma kicks the
Speaker 1: bucket or Grandpa kicks the butt bucket, and now the
Speaker 1: grandkids are like, I don't.
Speaker 4: Want this house.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's the way to uh, to kind of
Speaker 1: do it, or or look for old people walking gingerly
Speaker 1: around homes, push them down, down, sat, squat, just jump
Speaker 1: in the house.
Speaker 4: That's what you and West you do.
Speaker 1: Just go in there and squat in that house and
Speaker 1: just see what ends up happening. That's a great that's
Speaker 1: such a great story to to hear that. This was
Speaker 1: actually a good moment because I will say this, sometimes
Speaker 1: homes break people up. Like sometimes the idea of people
Speaker 1: going into something like this, and I will say this
Speaker 1: to you, the number one cause of to vorus is
Speaker 1: financial instability.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it would have stretched us. I said that
Speaker 3: to you talking to you about it.
Speaker 1: If you if you guys go into a situation like
Speaker 1: this and then it turns out to be, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like sometimes with the biggest blessing is what doesn't happen?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: And I even said to Wes, what would have happened
Speaker 3: if you got that text from Meg who's that a realtor?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: And she she was like they accepted it, and he goes,
Speaker 3: I would have spit myself, like I would have had
Speaker 3: almost a heart attack, because yeah, to.
Speaker 4: Figure some things out.
Speaker 1: Yeah have you ever have you ever done that where
Speaker 1: you went to go buy something or you wanted to
Speaker 1: go buy something and it extended you too much to
Speaker 1: a point where you're like, I probably shouldn't be doing this,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna treat myself. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen. You're so pissed off about the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and then later you look like a medical bill comes
Speaker 1: up or something happens to you, you know, and.
Speaker 3: Now you're well even with the last one that we
Speaker 3: didn't get because this is the second house that we've
Speaker 3: looked at in like in the course of a year. Think, God,
Speaker 3: we didn't get that. Wes lost his job right after,
Speaker 3: and so we were like, okay, is like, thank you
Speaker 3: God that this is how it happened.
Speaker 2: Reason you know, Wait, I don't want to lose my job.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know, but can I But you know,
Speaker 1: you don't you don't realize, like there's there's a reason.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody you know, like for Jessica that writes
Speaker 1: the letter. There's a reason why that happens, why you
Speaker 1: don't get the house. There's also a reason too, another
Speaker 1: house pops pops up. That's even better than that. You're
Speaker 1: not You're not stuck going. I'd like to move into
Speaker 1: an apartment. To be honest with you. At this point, keep.
Speaker 2: Saying, I keep saying. I keep telling him, I'm like,
Speaker 2: do you want trades?
Speaker 4: I'd like to.
Speaker 1: We don't have anybody at home with us anymore, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, neighbor Huh.
Speaker 4: I would do that. Chelsea and I talked about that.
Speaker 1: Chelse and I talked about would we ever, you know,
Speaker 1: get up, get an apartment or something downtown and move downtown.
Speaker 2: Easy maintenance, and well, you know what, I.
Speaker 4: Like the idea.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest pain in the ass of own in
Speaker 1: the house is trying to find something. And it used
Speaker 1: to be you could call somebody and it come out
Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks or whatever. Now it's like minimum
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars to get somebody to.
Speaker 4: Get thumb tacks that it's an app and it's much
Speaker 4: more so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you basically get some handy guy that
Speaker 1: has no.
Speaker 5: Job. It's easier in Michigan than it is in Florida
Speaker 5: to get stuff done. I realize that my mom's house fixed.
Speaker 5: Here in Florida, they'll charge you for the air you breathe,
Speaker 5: so at least the maintenance is a little bit easier here.
Speaker 5: You don't have to pull a permit for every single
Speaker 5: thing you do to your house.
Speaker 4: Plus, people in Florida are kind of weird.
Speaker 1: Thing.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, it's always yeah in the news, like there's
Speaker 5: like the string guy pulls up, you know.
Speaker 1: I had one time had a guy paint my my house.
Speaker 1: Guy shows up for day number one of painting. Albanian
Speaker 1: dude in a Mercedes car like a like not a truck.
Speaker 1: Guy pulls up in a literal. I said, all right,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? And I'm like, he's coming to
Speaker 1: give me an estimate. Mercedes beautiful car and like looks
Speaker 1: like one that like you know, a rich dude in
Speaker 1: Birmingham drives. I'm thinking, this guy is not every day
Speaker 1: showed up to paint my house in that same car.
Speaker 5: Job.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, I'm paying way too much money
Speaker 1: than this guy's driving that