FOR SALE

So, it's been a while! I left you with us finishing a few projects and interviewing realtors. The young pup vs. the older more experienced duo. Now normally we would have chosen the young pup. He wanted to list our house $5,000 less than the duo, but he was energetic, vivacious... hand wrote thank you notes to us and sent them in the mail! GREAT RAPPORT. BUT he wanted to work for 6%... in the eyes of Senor Accountant... the 5% the duo was working for won the prize. Each realtor promised the same things... professional photos, virtual tours, blah blah blah blah, so we knew when it came down to it, no matter who we chose, WE needed to make sure we were doing our part and showing the house well. The duo wanted to get the house on the market ASAP. If I remember correctly we made our decision the Wednesday before Easter, chose to list at exactly the midpoint of both realtor's prices, made a plan to have photos taken the following Monday, and listing it that Wednesday.

My sweet little house with the big bad sign in the front.And here's the actual Tour (<-- click) with all the remaining photos... I want to post them all here, but seriously... I don't have the time... or the energy for all of that.

You guys... there was a sign in my yard at 1130 am last Wednesday morning, we had a showing at 200 pm, and had an offer by bedtime that night! WTF?! We haggled back and forth and finally had signed sealed delivered contract late Friday night. The house was shown twice to the buyer and once to one other family. HOLY SHENANIGANS. We ended up settling at a great price... EXACTLY what we said we'd be thrilled with. If the inspection goes well, we'll be closing June 8th.

Friday, while the buyers were looking at the house, we met with our builders. We have a land inspection this Friday... and will get plans... finances... permits... blah blah blah rolling asap with a plan to break ground in June. You guys... the plan is to be in our BRAND NEW DREAM HOME BY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

Next step... finding a rental, which is remarkably difficult in a college town. Everywhere requires a year long lease... oy. Let the hunting begin!

March 9

March 9th, put it on your calendars baby because that's when we close on our new land! HOLLER! Bryan and I had been scoping out this piece of land for about a week (we looked ALL OVER Blacksburg, and couldn't find anything that fell within our parameters, and then we stumbled upon this piece and knew it was it), when we finally got with our realtor. She was something special, but I think it's all going to turn out just fine with her, and she could potentially be the one we go with to list our current home when it's time. Bryan was able to come in from being out of town, so we were able to meet with her last Thursday to put an offer on the land. After what seemed like years, we finally heard back today, and our initial offer was accepted! We're super excited, and we are praying that everything goes as smoothly as possible until we close.

Everything you see in the picture will be ours. It's 2.4 acres just outside of town. The surrounding homes are NICE to put it lightly. We'd have to sell each of our children in the black market to even pretend to be able to compete with them, but we'll have a lovely home nonetheless. :) (I've been searching blueprints online!) There is a bit of an eyesore across the street to the bottom left of the property back behind where the photo is taken from (shady house with goats!), but we'll be putting a privacy fence up and planting some more trees.

We're one step closer! :)