Selling Dragons Makes Me Cry

Okay, as everyone may or may have not noticed I haven’t been on the forum too much lately. Lots and lots of bad things going on on the new home front and lots of repairs need to be made by the end of September or I loose my insurance on the house. On top of that my roommate decided to up and take off in the middle of the night so no I am swinging the rent alone. I’ve been scrimping and saving as much as possible, but still come up short so here it is. I HAVE to sell some of my Windstones *cries* or I’m not going to make my deadline for the home inspector when he comes to inspect our roof! Our neighbor is being pretty uncooperative seeing his tree is what’s doing all the damage. If it wasn’t for a 70 foot oak tree completely decimating our roof I may have gotten a few more years out of it. Unfortunately, he’s putting an addition on his house and the inspector he has is the same as ours and when the inspector noticed how bad our house was when he went to approve his addition, he made it his prerogative to make a huge issue out of this all. So, joyous joy! Over the next few months I’m going to have to deal with taking down his tree myself and suing for the costs since the neighbor is being a real jerk about the issue. I mean seriously, it doesn’t take a genius to see the tree is causing moisture and shade which is in turn creating a small forest on the side of my house. ARGH!

I’m pretty desperate so I’m not looking for top dollar, but I need to get something fair. Whatever doesn’t sell I’m going to put on ebay Thursday. This is the display case in my kitchen. Basically everything here is up for grabs EXCEPT my royal hatchers , my Emerald Male ( for sentimental reasons, the very first Windstone ever) my Ruby Scratcher since he’s being saved for a repaint, and my Old Warrior. (I may consider the Old Warrior, but he was badly damaged in shipping and though I fixed him, it was like 7 years ago so it’s still pretty noticable since I wasn’t as good at it as I am now. He’s just not worth getting rid of him for the small amount he’s probably worth with the damage)

Some are going to be harder to part with then others. Here’s what I’m looking to sell right away. (no boxes)

Peacock Male (very good, flea bite or two)
Peacock Mother (very good, flea bite or two)
Peacock Young (repaired eye & repaired chips, looks great)
Peacock Mother Coiled (mint)
Peacock Scratcher (mint)
White Male (mint)
White Young (mint)
Brown Hatchling (mint)

These are the ones that will be a bit tougher for me to let go of

Brown Male (mint)
Ruby Lap (mint)
Green Mother (repaired tail and wing)

and of course the one I REALLY don’t wanna sell is the White Emperor. He was part of the lot I bought on ebay for 2 grand about 2 months ago. All I have left from that is him and the Lap which I am keeping. The Emperor had a damaged tail which I fixed, bit it’s still noticable since it was badly repaired to begin with when I got it *grrrrr* chances are good I won’t end up selling him unless the price is right, but with the damage I don’t think I will end up doing it.

I’m also selling some PYOs as well. I haven’t gone through them all yet, but I will post that info up soon.

Thanks ddvm. I’ve actually been dealing with this guy next door (Dave) for about a month about this issue now. He keeps putting it off, but time has been ticking and we have to get things done to our roof now before October hits. We are talking with lawyers right now who advised us to foot the costs for now to get the tree taken down and then just sue him for it later. We could also probably get a portion of the roof paid for too that way as well.
Originally we wanted to just trim the branches but the insurance company now says that that would pose a threat if there was a storm since the tree is so massive it could collapse on one of our houses it the weight is mis distributed or something like that. Not even our local electric company will come to trim the branches since they aren’t technically interfering with the telephone wires. Bad news all around.
I just get mad cause he’s adding on this huge 3 story princess tower or something on the back of his house that is like 10 feet from my bedroom window, and get this, building an outdoor bridge that connects it to his 2 story garage. The guy is nuts!