Updates

So when we knew we were going to be able to buy our property at the beginning of March, we started making arrangements to list our home for sale.  We began decluttering and moving some things over to some storage space away from our house.  Our realtor was going out of town the day after we closed on the land, so we knew we had an extra two weeks to get the house in final order while she was out of town.   

The day before she returned, the house across the street from us went on the market.  A few families looked at that house the evening that the sign showed up in the yard.  Our realtor returned on a Friday and we made plans for her to come over to our house on Saturday afternoon to take pictures and list our home. About seven families looked at the house across the street on Friday evening.  

On Saturday morning, my mom helped us do the final staging and cleaning before pictures.  That afternoon, our realtor arrived and we agreed on a price to list our home.  As she’s taking pictures of the front of our home, a realtor looking at the house across the street asked her what our list price was going to be.  She shared some info, and that realtor said she’d keep our house in mind later in the week when her client came into town.  Our realtor finished taking pictures and we signed the papers necessary to list our home.  She placed her sign in our front yard and left, telling us she knew she’d be in contact soon.   

Aaron and I wandered outside to check something in the garage, then we were going to go pick up our kids from my parents’ house.  I stepped inside to take care of one more thing, and when I turned around, a lady was standing in my garage talking to Aaron!  He came inside and said “I think we’re about to show our house!” Turns out, she is a realtor who was showing the house across the street and noticed our ‘for sale’ sign and came over to chat with Aaron.  She said she’d call our realtor and ask to see it. So I grabbed our dog and got him into our car with us and our realtor called and asked if the couple across the street could look at the house.  We went over to my parents’ house and as soon as I started walking down my parents’ driveway, our realtor called again and asked if another family could see the house.  Apparently, they saw the sign when they came to look at the other house and called our realtor to see if they could see it when the first family was finished.  We said that was fine.  

We took the kids out to eat in town which was long enough to make sure that the two different families were able to fully look around before we came home.  My parents graciously agreed to let our doggie stay with them through this week so he wouldn’t be nervous about all the extra families coming into the house.  Our realtor knew that she could schedule showings during the day on Sunday, and we’d go to church and hang out with my parents and then Aaron’s parents to bide our time.   

On Saturday night, we received a text from the realtor saying that one of the families who saw the house that afternoon put in an offer! She texted a little while later to say that someone wanted to see the house as early as possible on Sunday morning and asked when we could be out of the house. We made arrangements to get out of the house by 8am the next morning. We reviewed the offer from the family who saw the house on Saturday and we agreed that we’d see what happened with the showings on Sunday.  

On Sunday, we made it out of the house by 7:45 and ended up having five families look at the house over the course of the day. In the early afternoon our realtor told us that the family who saw the house at 8am were going to put in an offer. By 4:30, that offer arrived and it was higher than the first. We reviewed both offers side by side and asked our realtor a couple of questions about them both.   

We chose the offer that suited us best and we are currently working down the checklist of things that have to happen next like a home inspection, appraisal, etc. Once we close, we’ll live with my parents while we build our home. My parents have done extensive work in their home to rearrange furniture so we can bring in our things (like dressers and the bunkbed), etc. We’re so thankful for their help and we are ready to begin the next part of this adventure! 

Until Next Time,

Much Love, Reba