http://www.jeffpender.com/house A long strange journey, and we haven't even left yet. Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:47:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry to keep you up in the air, Stephanie! It's been a wee bit crazy around here. We have no home land line phone and thus no DSL or other home internet access for at least another week, and work has actually been needing me to, you know, work, so ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/09/04/41/ The new house is ours. Not without a little bit of last minute anxiety, but it all worked out OK. Just back from visiting it after Jeff got home from teaching, and am now way too tired to post any details, but the main point is: it's done. We are now ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/08/16/40/ 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 ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/08/13/39/ 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 ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/28/38/ 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 ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/26/37/ 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.  ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/25/36/ 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 ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/24/35/ 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 ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/18/34/  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 ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/18/32/ 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, ... http://www.jeffpender.com/house/2006/07/18/31/