SOLD

We sold our house!

We actually got the offer 2 days after we moved out here so it’s been driving me crazy not to share but I didn’t want to say anything until it was final.  Because you know how things can turn around on you and that would have been anticlimactic!

Anyway, we been going through the motions of negotiating back and forth, waiting for the inspection then the inspection report and then the buyers letter asking for every little possible thing to be “fixed”… which is actually just a reason to negotiate for more $$ back- or off the price of the house.   You know the drill!

So we’ll be heading back in a couple weeks so the movers can pack up all our belongings (the ones we don’t have here anyway) and store it…because we can not find a house to purchase here!

I’m not kidding.

We’ve been looking for houses here for 2 months essentially (looking at listings and actuall houses for 3 weeks) and my “listing report” is just the same 15 houses every week.

It’s sad.

We are thinking of expanding our search to other areas of Knoxville even though that would defeat the purpose of  moving out here for the last 5 weeks of school here.  Maddie  wanted to meet some friends to hang out with during the summer and start the next year with.  Also, we chose this area because we wanted her in this school system.

Oh well.  What-a-ya-do?

We really want to find our next house soon.   Really soon!

Apartment life is something. You forget after 12 years of home ownership.

Some people complain about home ownership, that there’s always something to fix.

That’s true, I suppose but…

I’ll take it.

It sure beats twiddling my thumbs!

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  2. I have no idea what the buyers thought. Obviously they liked the house but I’m not sure our built-ins will survive. We kept getting notes from our Realtor asking if there is wood floor under the built ins. They don’t want the craft island at all. We’re taking it with us because I don’t want it to end up having a sledge hammer taken to it like in all the “Home Improvement” shows on TV. I can’t even imagine what they were thinking when they went into the basement and saw the craft room. “What in the world is this big “table” (that’s what they called it) doing in the middle of this room? What a waste of space. I’d much rather have a big open space in the middle of the room.”

    Maybe?

    Of course, I’m biased because I designed MY perfect space. I don’t care what they do with it when it’s theirs. Whatever!

  3. I wonder if the foreclosures and short sales are found in a different place than the regular old fashioned “for sales”. Maybe that’s the problem. I’ll have to ask my Realtor about that. Here’s hoping we find something.

  4. I like your positive attitude. Maddie keeps telling us we are being too picky and we aren’t going to find a home thats “perfect”. Honestly, I’d settle for “in the ballpark”.

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