So we listed our house today, as I'm sure many of you know from my previous posts on the topic. (Thank you for bearing with me. )

We told our neighbors across the street last night about our plans and their response was really negative. They are an older couple - late 50's, early 60s. The wife said, "can I be honest? I think that is the dumbest thing you could do." She was really insistent that our house and neighborhood are so friendly and perfect that we should just stay at our current home. Her husband, on the other hand, was more understanding of our reasons for wanting to sell but was really sad/hurt almost. They've been our closest neighbors since we moved in. I had taken them a meal last night (the wife has been recovering from surgery) and the husband brought the dishes back today and I could tell he was still really sad by the whole situation and brought up the lock box on our door. Their response is really making me not want to leave.

Well, the neighbors behind our house (and fence) are actually a small trailer park. It's been there forever and the people there are low income but have a lot of pride for their park so it's well-kept, etc. The park manager came over this morning and asked if they could access our back yard to remove some trees that are right on the property line. Something about the situation was unsettling to me and I called DH. Turns out, half of the trees they plan to remove are on OUR property but our fence is on the other side of them. They were wanting to remove OUR trees along with theirs, claiming that it would look odd to have a line up of our tall, beautiful maples, since they are pulling out the other trees.

They also wanted to take our nice white vinyl fence down, drop all of the trees into our back yard, and back a flat bed into our yard to take the trees away. Keep in mind we listed our house TODAY and the sign just went up.

Well, DH came home and talked to them and told them that 1) they couldn't down the trees into our yard and 2) our trees absolutely had to stay and the park manager was less than understanding and even said that he thought it would look so tacky with only 2 large maples instead of the rest that a potential buyer would like the property without the trees. Well, we're holding our ground obviously.

But still - WHAT are the odds? Those trees have been up for years and they are so big that they provide additional (much-needed) privacy from the trailer park for our yard and they are taking their trees down THIS week. The week the house starts showing! It will honestly look very barren without some of the trees they plan to remove.

Such bad luck. I know it's a bit of an overreaction but coupled with our neighbor's response I'm already feeling defeated in this house selling process and almost want to pull the plug already. We won't, but seriously. What. are. the. odds?!