Almost there ....

Shepherd just rang A., reporting back on how the owner initially reacted to our offer and Shepherd's points about how we arrived at our numbers. She seemed to react to everything positively, and didn't protest anything right off the bat. She wants to review it with her lawyer, of course, but we're cautiously optimistic about the answer we'll get tomorrow.

And by cautiosuly optimistic, I mean that we're both about to jump out of our skins for joy.