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!
Congratulations!!!! I have a hard time believing they really found things that needed to be fixed. That must have been a pretty flimsy excuse for a list.
I am sure you have already thought of this, but have you thought about building a new home? We looked a lot of houses and realized we weren’t going to find what we what unless we knocked down walls. So I found a builder with a floor plan I love. A new home is still a lot of work :). Good luck. I can’t wait to see what you find and what you do with it. (I am kinda hoping it looks horrible so you will have tons to do and tons for me to read. j/k)
I’m really trying to find something Uhh-gly but that has good bones and is structurally sound…
I’d love to knock down walls and all that if the price is right. We’ll see. We just don’t have time to build new. It’d be time to move again before construction was complete (with my luck) so I’ll keep looking for something that I can take on a project at a time (who am I kidding? I always have at least 3 at once) so we can finish up and move again when needed. Just like we did in IL, and TX, and AZ, and LA, and …
Someday!
Congratulations!!! I hope you find your new house very soon. Can’t wait to see what your amazing mind and skills can do. BTW- husband has been installing the bookcase in the living room and working to make it look built in. I keep referring to your posts to get that look. Thanks again. It’s fabulous to have book cases and all that great space.
Thank you. Awesome. and Sweet! Of course, I want to see when you’re done!
hey girl! I’m sure it’s a huge relief to have sold your home. Have you checked out zillow.com? It’ll let you know what things are going for at least. You basically type in any city, and it pulls up all the houses for sale in any given area. You can see the pictures, what it was last sold for, etc. It will also pull up some forclosures too. Give it a try!
Interesting! I will look into that. Thanks.
Congratulations on selling!! This gives me hope — we’ve been on the market for six months with no luck and everyone keeps saying “It’s just a bad time,” but at least someone somewhere is able to sell. Good luck finding a new place!
Nancy, there’s always hope! It’s just are you hoping to sell? Or are you hoping to sell and still make a little $? Or, are you just hoping to “SELL” not “GIVE” it away?
We sold our house because we kept lowering the price and then accepted even less. I hate to think about it, it’s depressing.
We basically could have put a sign in our yard that said, “For free by owners, gratuities accepted” and come to the same place financially at the end of it all. Maybe.
I hope that 1 person comes through and falls in love with your house and you can get out from under it and on with life. It sucks to be stuck in a holding pattern while on the market. Good luck.
I think maybe you should secretly buy the fixer upper that you like work on it nonstop until school get’s out, let Maddie in on the secret and put her to work, then surprise your husband. I sometimes “surprise” my husband when I am not sure whether or not he is on board. You know like “Surprise I bought a new dining set, curtains, and painted the kitchen while you were at work today!” Or “Surprise we are fostering three puppies for a few weeks!” I am sure that when you get started on the renovation he would like it, Wes just doesn’t have your vision, right? 😉
I think that they would like it after I put 100k into it but unfortunately, I don’t have that kind of money in a secret stash. Darn it.
I wish I could buy that house and fix it up as a side project. Unfortunately, it’s more in the price range of what we need to spend for a “live in” house instead of a little project on the side. Sigh!
Maybe I’ve surprised Wes one too many times and he’s figured out when I’m scheming and so he’s able to say “Absolutely not” before I Dive In without even warning him what’s about to happen.
I need to develop a new strategy!