Pam -- I've struggled all day with what to post to you on this topic...sigh...maybe I'm just too blunt or I don't know...but I think it's just NOT a good idea to have G involved AT ALL in this...I wouldn't have him get involved in your interest in the house or anything. It just seems like a tangled mess that is doomed.
That being said...the list that he proposes at the end of his e-mail is exactly what I've been suggesting all along...(must be the ENGINEER in me!)...an agreed upon list of who is doing what and when. I (personally) don't think that having that go from you -> G -> J -> D and back again is at all constructive...my two cents is go directly to D with a list of things you think need to occur before the sale and your stake in the ground on who will do what...
Sage
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