SOLD!
I know I said last week that we were going to look at houses and that we were thinking about moving. Here’s my life since Friday:
Friday: drive home from Flagstaff. Prepare for my least favorite day of the year.
Saturday: Neighborhood garage sale (AAAAAHHHHH!) Ryan gets stuck with mandatory (third week in a row, but don’t get me started) so its me and the ‘rents at my least favorite activity EVER. Note me behind the camera hiding from hagglers. And yard-spitter-oners. And my crazy brother posing in the background.
Saturday afternoon: house shopping without Ryan. Murphy’s law: on the one day you’re house shopping without your husband, you find THE house.
Sunday: stress about buying a house your husband hasn’t seen.
Monday noon: take husband to see house; one o’clock: make offer; 1:30 your own house goes up on MLS; 3pm people start stalking the house even though there’s not a sign up yet; 4:30 house is in shambles from packing (and drinking), so of course your agent calls to say people are coming; 5pm people come to see the house; 5:02 people leave without fully appreciating your home and its gorgeous backyard.
Tuesday morning: our offer for the new house is rejected, but we receive an offer on ours! Tues afternoon: redo our offer, drive to BFE to get hubby’s signatures, arm wrestle a fax machine. Tues evening: accept offer on our house. But ALSO show the house to another couple and get a call on an offer from them too. So let’s review: we have no house to move into, but we could sell our house 10 times over.
PHEW! I’m almost glad its gone so fast because I was verging on a full emotional break-down yesterday. This is MY house. It used to be orange with red trim outside, pink carpet, dirt in the backyard…. Now it is a gorgeous home. My home. And strangers are walking through it. Judging. Commenting.
So now I’m going to spend the next month soaking up my first house. And my gorgeous backyard. Today, after a much needed (and quickly drank) glass of wine I sat in the backyard to watch the sunset. I always wish that I had photography training, but no more so than when its sunset. But what I do know is, I can photograph the puppies and I almost always love how the pictures come out because I love those pups as if they were my kids. And if a sunset happens to sneak into the background….
Yea, you! Congrats on the house sale! It’s hard to say goodbye to your first house, but it also feels good to begin new and plant roots someplace else (hopefully without barking dogs next door!)
The sunset is just beautiful.
Congratulations!
holy snot, no wonder you’ve been MIA! I hope they accept your second offer on the superhouse.
By the way, I just said my boss bought us coffee… I don’t think I said anything about him caring!! But yeah, things at work are better. I hope they look up for you, too.
loved your blog when i first read it from micheles on the weekend and now i have blogrolled you! yippee!! cogrants on selling your house and the best of luck with a new one
A new start!!! Congratulations.
Doesn’t real estate suck?! I just finished with two very painful real estate transactions, so I feel for you…. And you’re so lucky to have sold your house so fast. We had to deal with people looking at our house for over a month, meaning it had to be spick-n-span clean constantly, which I do not do well!!!
way to go! wanna be neighbors?
way to go! wanna be neighbors?
Awww! So cute!
Dang, dude, no wonder you haven’t been blogging. Moving, ugh! I think I can only emotionally handle moving about every 3 years or so. Don’t envy you all that…but, congratulations on selling your house so fast! I am terrified ours is going to take forever; all the houses in our hood sit there for months with nobody buying them. I don’t know why either, it’s a decent neighborhood. Eeek.
Anyway–best of luck with that dream house and all
J
so, i gotta admit, i’m confused. u’re gonna spend the next month soaking up your first house? that’s the one u’re selling, right? closing a month off?
oh, and congrats btw =)
Congrats!! And have fun in Mexico..I know that having all this ‘done’ will make your weekend that much better..(of course..you’ll have to give the knowledge that you still have moving ahead of you a good kick to the back of the mind for the weekend!)
Keep us posted!
Love the photo of the sunset and the doggies….and I`m hoping you find the house of your dreams!
Wow! You have been busy, girl!
What a gorgeous sunset. And the puppies are pretty sweet, too!
Amanda,
Please e-mail me you e-mail address so we can talk about the aerospace business.
Thanks.
Bob Bennett ( Kacey’s Dad)
Amanda,
Please e-mail me you e-mail address so we can talk about the aerospace business.
Thanks.
Bob Bennett ( Kacey’s Dad)