Category: Moving (Page 3 of 5)

Thanks for all the Birthday wishes yesterday! 🙂 It really helped make my day.

Which is a good thing since I also totally freaked out again about our whole housing situation again yesterday… I seem to swing to such extremes these days. Gah!

But today has been a good day. We went out and bought some new totes to store all the clothes that we’ll be transporting to our rental (of which we still need to find, but more on that in a second…) and I’ve started packing up more from the house. I just hate living in this limbo. Especially since I have no idea where we’re going next or how long we’re going to be there.

But onto better news: Here is the rental we are going to look at on Monday night. I’m VERY excited about it (so no one say anything bad about it, ok? ;))

http://execrealtycitiesrentals.appfolio.com/listings/listings/19112f6d-bca4-420e-9b14-ea4ad74d6697

It’s only available for a short time, but that’s alright with us, because it will work very well for our purposes right now. The hardest part for us right now is getting from a house into a rental.  We’re going to live on the bare minimum for a while in the rental, so if we have to shift to another rental from there that won’t be as stressful as getting into our first rental.  At least that’s my logic right now.  And we can get into the rental starting next week which would help moving our stuff.  Plus this would give us just a little more time to keep looking…

Like I said, I swing on major extremes these days… and right now I’m happy.

We found a house that we love… that we looked at months ago and very recently came back on the market again.  However, it’s over our price point–by a lot.  And it also needs A LOT of work.

But we thought, “why not take a chance?  You never know…”

So we did.

We submitted a low-ball offer and they countered with a miniscule lowering of the price.  So we gave them our top dollar price that we could muster and they said no.

Sigh.

It was worth a try right?

🙂

We’ve decided to start moving the rest of our things systematically to our storage unit.  This weekend we cleaned out the garage.  Next weekend is the basement.  The following weekend is the rest of the house because the final weekend of August the kids and I will be on vacation!

Here’s the before picture…

Before

And then it seemed to get worse and worse as we were trying to clean it!

During

And finally… after many trips to the storage unit and even a tip to the Baker’s garage, we have it mostly cleaned out!

After

Our house is officially sold! It was hard to believe it was actually true until we got our sign yesterday. Yippie!

We’re super excited!!!

Now we continue on with the search to figure out where to go next. 🙂 At least this first step feels more final!

Thanks to Tim and Dad working this weekend we are the proud new owners of a cute rectangular hole in our ceiling at the top of our stairs.  Nice work guys!  They did encounter a few snags along the way (which is really no surprise in any home repair project…), but were able to finish it up in one day.

We left it “unfinished” in case we needed to make the hole bigger… now Tim can trim it out and I’ll paint it white

And this afternoon the appraiser/inspector came BACK to look in our “attic”… which actually turned out to be about 15 inches or so (at the peak!) of space.  Not even enough room to put your head and shoulders up into… good grief!  Anyway, she came back to check to make sure it looked secure and had insulation.  And it does.  So, after apologizing for having to come back, she said it looks good.  🙂

Now we just wait to make sure the closing date is still August 30th.

And that SHOULD mean that our house is actually, officially SOLD now!

We’ve had a little snag with the buyer on our house.  It hasn’t fallen through or anything, but he didn’t qualify for the type of loan he wanted so he’s had to switch to an FHA loan.  This means that the appraisal will also be another inspection… and apparently the regulations are a bit more strict than a normal inspection.

Ugh.

I hate inspections on our VERY OLD house anyway, and now we have another one…

So, we’ve been given a few items that we will need to take care of before the appraiser comes on Wednesday.

Can you guess which one I’m most frustrated about?

Our new weekend project. Lucky us. 🙁

It’s amazing what fixed stucco and a little green can do to improve the look of your house!  Here’s a comparison of our house when we first listed it in April to now…

We had 2 more showings tonight–it seems that Wednesday’s and weekends are very popular for showings around here.  I checked back in my calendar, since it feels like we were “off the market” for so long, but we were only off for 2 weeks (exactly).  If felt like soooo  much longer.  So we were on for 1 week, off for 2, then back on for 2 so far.  Time really has a way of feeling exceptionally exaggerated or crazy short sometimes!  We have another showing tomorrow and another on Friday… that brings our grand total of showings to (drum roll……………….) TWENTY-SIX.

Isn’t that crazy?

We’ve had positive feedback though.  And we only need one person to love it.  So, we wait.

I’m looking forward to my summer schedule starting in a couple of weeks because it’s stressful to be teaching while there are showings.  My recital is less than 2 weeks away.  Yippie!