And We're Off!

Much quicker than we ever could have imagined, our house sold after less than 4 days on the market. What a way to make it all worth the wait! I spent all last week cleaning, decluttering (even more!), and getting the house ready to take photos for the listing. We were told that showings could happen at anytime, sometimes with less than an hour notice. So every time we left the house, we were to make it look picture-perfect. And, after only 2 days of having to deal with that (plus two small children who would have messed up the room I just cleaned no sooner than I was moving on to the next), I'm so grateful we didn't have much more!

We had one showing Tuesday evening and another Wednesday afternoon. The "winners" came Wed. afternoon. Their original offer was about $10,000 less than our asking price. Our wonderful realtor talked them up about $6,000, and advised us that even though we will be losing a lot of money on the sale, we should probably take it, with the way today's market is. So we were excited that the house sold quickly, we can move on and not have to put anymore money in it, but we also felt slightly dejected that we would be losing so much. As time has passed, we have more of the excited feeling, because we're almost at the end-- we can finally get where we need to be and start moving on with what we're supposed to be doing. :)

We originally had a closing date of Sept. 21st but convinced the buyers to move it up to Sept. 7th, which puts us moving Labor Day weekend. Of course, there is still the risk that something will fall through-- the buyers' loan will fail, the home inspection will show something terribly wrong, who knows what else-- so we are hesitant, but we are trying to remain positive. We do have to be moved out by closing, so we are pressing forward with that.

Meanwhile, guess who's taken a couple steps on his own today, making the packing & moving process, even more exciting??