Moving up in the ranks of neighborhood seniority

There are four houses on my block, on my side of the street. One was for sale at the same time as mine, and needs a lot of work. Work trucks have been there but no one has moved in. One went on the market a month or so ago and now has a Sale Pending sign. And the people next door moved out about two weeks ago. These were the stressed-looking neighbors I have mentioned before, with the bored ten-year-old and the colicky baby.

The For Sale sign went up last weekend, but it didn't hit the databases until yesterday - I was watching for it because I am nosy. :-) The pictures of the inside look fairly nice. I have a good view of their driveway and the road in front from my desk, and I swear that a half hour hasn't gone by without some car pulling into the driveway or pulling up out front. There was one car this morning that circled the block a dozen times, slowing down each time they passed, gazing at it from either direction. Right now there's a minivan sitting in the driveway.

If they don't have multiple offers by the end of the week, there is something horribly wrong in there.