Sorry it has been a while

but...nothing new has happened. This is the boring waiting game time.

I did have an interesting and not all that useful (or believable really) email conversation with our agency. Here is what happened:

I got to thinking (maybe not such a good idea :) about the whole time frame to being chosen thing. We have been told from the beginning that the average time it takes to be chosen is 6-12 months. We understood that and have been prepared to wait that time. We have also been told on numerous occasions that the time is just an average and that we could have been chosen day 1 or it could take 2 years. It all depends on the right birthmother coming along and choosing us. That when it is right it will be right and nothing will hurry that along. Fine. That works for us. But...

I got to thinking. Lets put it into a house selling analogy. You ahve a house that you need to sell. Lets say it is a tiny house on a bad street that is badly outdated and you are asking a ton of money for it and are unwilling to negotiate. Your realtor tells you that houses are taking roughly 6-12 months to sell. now, this house isn't getting much traffic. You get maybe 3 or 4 people walking through it a month. In 6 months you will have had 18-20 people see the house in that time span.

Now lets say you ahve a large, modern, beautifully kept up house on a highly desired street and you are asking very little money for it and are willing to work with the buyer in any way. You are also told it takes 6-12 months to sell these days. You are getting 10-12 people a month looking at the house. In 6 months you will have had 60-72 people see the house!

Ok...you can see where I am going with this. If house/person A only gets 20 people and house/person B gets 72..you would excpet person 2 to take a lot less time to seel the house.

I posed this to our agent wondering if instead of an average time frame if there was an average presentations that occur prior to being chosen. Her response made no sense. She said that it is so subjective and could happen at any time and is just the right person seeing the right profile that we can't use averages. then why give me an average time frame?? Wouldn't average presentations make more sense?

Am I the only one thinking that this makes NO SENSE AT ALL?