Originally Posted By: zig
vera- i'm really interested - how did you use power packaging and what did it mean for you to use and and apply it and how did you interpret what it is about?

isn't is sooooo nice that for once you got a positive response - so something you did worked!!! do you feel that you could really pinpoint exactly what it was so you could repeat it again and again

thought it was really interesting that your perspective on what you expect from h shifted. would you say it shifted before or after you wrote that email and got the positive response?


did you say yes to the visit?


Well, I went back to the emails to see if I could parse what I "did." I would say that I validated his concern about listing the house w/in a certain timeframe and spending money on the reno, and then showed how doing the reno would increase house value and eliminate an inspection issue. I closed by saying that I was trying to work within his request to have the house ready to list w/o delay if I can't finance it. So- combination of pure logic, lack of "me" statements (just the facts) and appealing to his timing and financial interests. No accusations and I deleted the part of my old draft that started with "i really don't appreciate how you ..."