Building Our House

Packing has commenced. It’s hard work, and it’s a crazy busy time anyway - I went in to work (the paying kind) both yesterday and today for several hours each. My nap quota is so far behind I will never catch up.
Our agents have been out of town for 10 days but should be back […]

Our house is under contract! A grand 72 hours after being listed. Or rather, it will be as soon as the buyers get to their hotel and fax back the signed updated contract, but we have no reason to think that they won’t (knock on wood) - it is apparently a seller’s market.
There were two offers, actually, […]

First showing was tonight, 6pm. So we went out to dinner. No idea what they thought of it, but they don’t seem to have stolen anything :)
Tomorrow we have one scheduled at 10am - I’ll be at work but Jeff will have to clear out, before we head up to see how the inspection of […]

There’s a For Sale sign in our front yard.
Eep!
The agent was coming over to take pictures to get everything ready for officially listing it later this week, we thought.  But he was impressed with how much we’ve gotten done to get the house ready, and said let’s do it tonight.  So there it is.  There […]

In my excitement over having found a house, I skipped over two others we looked at in the week preceding.
#16 was on a pretty big lot, but very skinny and long. House was small, there was a pool right behind it which would get in the way of expansion (and not sure we want to maintain […]

We got it! Signed!
Not without last minute drama, of course. First offer was declined, with no counteroffer. Our agent called back to make a new offer - about 1/3 closer to the asking price from our original offer. At that time, the listing agent said there was another offer on the table, which he hadn’t […]

 Today we went to see this house, in the same nice neighborhood as numbers 3, 11, and 15. The street is next to an elementary school - you can see the back of the school through the across-the-street houses’ back yards.
It has 9 windows on the front - 5 across the top, 4 on the […]

Saturday morning Jeff stopped in a local real estate office and got us an agent - buyer’s agent for the buying, and listing agent assuming the buying goes forward.
Saturday afternoon we looked at the house again with the agent, and he helped us put together an offer - $5k below the listing price, promise of […]

Jeff and I have an affinity for the number 13.  We were engaged in room 13 of the inn where we were staying.  We were married on a Friday the 13th.
So this morning I posted about #12 so I could get it written before we went to see one more place at lunchtime today.  Which […]

Many angles, that is, were not exactly 90 degrees.  We saw this one last weekend but I am being lazy and distracted.  Just about 20 minutes away, nice looking neighborhood, 2 acres.  Sort of 70s modern, open and a funny angled roof. 
But the house is practically on the back line so any future development back […]