Palm Harbor Short Sales and The Cat Who Wouldn’t Give Up

We have to put our 16-year old cat, Moe, to sleep today.  It’s gut-wrenching. 

I feel like his murderer – and his savior.   It hit me last night that it’s not much different than helping someone through a Palm Harbor short sale when the Pinellas foreclosure date is near. 

My logical mind says I know we’re putting Moe out of his misery.  It’s something we have to do – we’ve explored all of our other options, expensive tests, psychoanalyzed every possible impending (yet imaginary) miracle to death, and yet, we realized we hit the point where the rubber just has to meet the road.

We hired the best professional available – the vets at Westlake Animal Hospital in Tarpon Springs.  We are following their guidance and we are sending Moe the Cat packing with a sardine last-meal, a scratch and a kiss, and we’ll be there at the end when he pounces up to kitty heaven.  And get a grip Julia … I tell myself, he’s just a cat.  I’m tell myself I’m not going get too emotionally involved.  But hey, we’ve been friends for 16 years and have been through a lot together.

There are lovely people all over Pinellas County struggling with their upside down houses and the loss of a job, ballooning interest payments, and medical bills who need help navigating their way out.   Thousands of options are thrown at them when they are already in a state of disarray financially and emotionally.

The lucky ones find professionals to help them navigate their way out.  Through the sea of attorneys, foreclosure notices and extensions, daily nasty phone calls and letters from the banks, upset children that are losing their home and not sure where they are going yet, and often times tears and the family fights that can ensue. 

With the help of a caring professional, this gut-wrenching drama can actually turn into a well-thought out and carefully executed short sale plan of action to avoid foreclosure.  Credit can be saved, at least in part, and in a rare instances, sometimes without even as much as a 30-day late on a FICO report.  Despair turns to hope, creates building blocks for dreams, and transforms failures into triumphs – for everyone in the family.  We’ve seen it time and time again.  And yes, I get emotionally involved, even though I’m not supposed to, but these people become our friends.

If you know of somebody that is facing a Dunedin Foreclosure, or one anywhere in Tampa Bay for that matter, talk to a professional.  Give us a call.  Let’s chat about options.  We’re teamed up with good people they can consult with for free, too.  Attorneys, Accountants, other Realtors, and people that have been through it, too.  

One need not end up alone at the end of a foreclosure with the Pinellas County Sherrif’s car parked out front waiting for you to get your belongings out.  You can exit with supreme grace, surrounded by a team of caring professionals.   Then you’ll go on to accomplish amazing things with this experience under your belt.

The house will be missed.  It was a really nice house with all of those fine family memories woven into the carpet stains and leaky faucet that never did work quite right.  Yet, it is just a house, after all. 

Moe the Cat will be missed.    Yet, he is just a cat, after all.  But he’s one heck of a fine cat, I must admit – and is still often mistaken for a meatloaf.  

I’m signing off this post with our favorite Fishel family song……

Moe, Moe, Moe Your Boat, Gently down the Stream ….

Larry, Larry, Larry, Larry, Life is but a Dream.

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