Building Our House

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 […]

Clearly I am not cut out to be a journal keeper. Of course, one could argue that I do have rather a lot going on right now…
Last Wednesday we saw numbers 14 and 15. Hey, it’s less than a week!
#14, House on the Corner - was, well, on a corner, fairly small lot, almost across […]

Yep, it’s dead.
Apparently the owner and his wife both have cancer, so they’re in a hurry for the money, so a cash deal closing in a week is worth it to them, despite pain caused to innocent bystanders.  I don’t know if they need to pay bills or pay for their grand round-the-world cruise.  Whatever.
Jeff […]

Once again it seems, a verbal agreement is not worth the paper it’s printed on.  Some investors showed up with an all-cash, no-inspection offer, so the seller is going with them.  Do people have no sense of decency in the face of money?  Does the seller actually know of some hidden problem that the inspection […]

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 […]