My husband and I have 2 daughters aged 12 & 14. In the winter, we were in a very hectic stage of our lives. My husband is a Financial Planner working through busy RRSP season, and I was going through a change of ownership for the company I work for and taken on the role of General Manager for this company. I also have taken on a very busy volunteer role which turned into another part-time job (no pay), but I love to help where needed. At this point, I must have been working 60-70 hours/week. I finally decided I was going to take the weekend off and not work & spend the time with my family.

Friday night I run into some friends that are Real Estate agents at the grocery store picking up milk (normally my husband does all the grocery shopping). They asked us to stop into an open house for a brand new model home they were showing. I figured I would come on a social visit and bring them coffee just to show them support. My family decided let’s go just to see. Well, we this was our DREAM HOME. While we were there, a family we know came through that has had their house on the market for quite some time. I asked if they had any luck selling their house, and low and behold they just sold – had to be out in a few months and that is why they were looking. We had a very strange feeling in the house, could feel ourselves living there, kids picked out their rooms. I even visioned furniture that I would buy.

As we sat at the supper table we talked about moving, but thought it couldn’t really be possible with our crazy lives right now. But my daughter was on MSN with the girl we met at the open house, gave her father’s number and asked my husband to call. My husband called her father, wondering, what could he possibly want? Maybe he would like to buy the house and hoped we weren’t interested. Well, would you believe he was calling to offer to buy our house privately. This family has been to our house a few times for pool parties, and knew what our house was like. Well, now the dinner conversation got interesting. We are not looking for a house, one hour ago we find our dream home, and now someone is offering to buy our home.

The next 2 nights I run into this couple, and they are inquiring about our house again, so I invited them to come over for a drink. One week later they were certain they wanted to buy our house, and 10 days later we were signing final papers to buy our DREAM HOME & sell our current house. We couldn’t believe this was all happening at such a busy time of our lives.

We moved in 2 months later and we did manage it all. Of course we needed new furniture for this house – so I went into one furniture store and I found all the furniture that I visioned. Within 2 hours we had purchased a few rooms worth of furniture. I so believed I had to say YES to this opportunity as it was the SECRET working for me all over.