So many changes happened this month. We put our house on the market. Sold it 20 days later. Looked at maybe 35+ homes over the course of a month. Our agent complained a lot about it. We put offers on 3 homes. Finally the 3rd one looks like it'll be a keeper... we have the inspection tomorrow and then see how things go. We never did find our "dream" home. We actually just bought any home we thought we could fit all our crap into until next spring when more homes start to come on the market again. We think we just started our search too late in the season to find just what we were looking for... so stupid us, we'll have to end up moving all our crap twice... Just what I always wanted to do.
It has been a very emotional month. Finally today I had a cry after I bonked my head on the refrigerator door when I reached in to get something. It wasn't that it hurt, it's just that my stress level has been through the roof and I'm not sleeping much. So, cry I must.
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| We did a ton of clean up in the yard. Super hard work. |
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| our official for sale sign |
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| the packing begins |
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| This is some of the staging that was done. |
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| more staging... |
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| and more staging... |
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I never liked the way they staged the living room.
It looked ok, but not a logical seating arrangement. |
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I was super glad to get all their staging junk out of my house.
This picture is just a small sampling of the stuff they brought here. As a reminder to myself, it them 6 hours to stage our home! |
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| Apparently this is our new home. I do love the front porch! |
The new house is only a few minutes from our current house. We don't plan on staying there very long. Just long enough to paint, put in new carpet and countertops and find a new home. Riiiight, we'll see how that goes.
We won't do things the same next time around. Next time we'll buy a house first, no matter how long it takes to find the right one, before putting ours on the market. We will use a different agent, one who isn't getting ready for her wedding...and one who won't keep complaining about how many homes we want to see... And as far as staging, I don't know. I suppose it would be ok as long as I'm not living there. I don't ever want to sell a staged house while I'm living in it. Never again...
