Archive for July, 2006

Well that didn’t take long.

Friday, July 28th, 2006

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, […]

Visitors

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

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 […]

The Sign

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

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 […]

Correction: That was #18

Monday, July 24th, 2006

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 […]

New lucky number: 16

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

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 […]

#16 The Colonial

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006