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One, two, three, four, damn I want a bidding war!

So all that decluttering and cleaning and fixing up, the account of which I just *know* that all of you have simply been *gripped* by as I’ve been all obsessive about it lo these past few weeks? It all came together today with the open house.

And apparently, it went pretty well. Response was very good, so good that the realtor ran out of information sheets. Several people took offer submission sheets. And that’s even with another 1 bedroom FSBO in the building and having an open house today as well. It was called a “one-plus” in the ad, so maybe it’s priced higher than mine.

I’m really hoping mine will go fast for a few reasons: One, it’s one of the cheapest 1-bedrooms on my realtor’s site (and they’re a big one, able to pull in buyers). If you’re going cheaper, you’re going into East Flatbush, which is great and all, but I’m only two blocks from Prospect Park and East Flatbush is not. Two, it’s priced very attractively for first-time buyers, who may very well not do better renting. Three, it’s a really damn nice apartment:

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Dammit.

So I got my bathtub refinished, and the very first time I use it, some of the paint flakes off.

Well, at least it looks better. I’ll just throw a no-slip mat over the chip and call it a day.