out, gone, done.

 It’s all over. Yesterday was pure hell.  The new people were literally moving in on our heels. Cleaning each and every room with lysol and gloves as we were out of them. They arrived at 9 am, and the movers a couple hours after that. Their realtor was there as well, kissing butt, providing food [...]

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late……

yeah, I know.  a few late nights for us.  we are trying hard to be out of the house by tomorrow night, if at all possible. And just be done with the whole thing.  I am continually amazed at the contentiousness of this whole deal.  If we didn’t want to sell and be gone so [...]

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 We are at our New Home!  Well, for a few days, anyway.This trip it feels different, in that I know that it will be permanent really soon.  Like, I have a date. Its looking like the final trip will be around the 8th of October. And as more personal things are taken away from the Santee [...]

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I’ve no idea.

The demands for information are beginning.  The new owners want every possible piece of paper relating to the remodel of the house. One of the problems I’m running into is that there are a couple of contractors that we used that were not big companies, or someone that we knew and we don’t have the [...]

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and now we wait…….

again. Only this time we have accepted an offer. A couple of counter-offers back and forth. But we are officially in escrow. And now we are on the twenty-one day countdown.  Yikes!! Three weeks! In the end, we settled at 440K.  With the market tanking ( and that’s an understatement for what’s going on here ) in southern [...]

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resting

Well, the open house was yesterday afternoon. The realtor said that we got a fairly good turnout – 8 couples came through. Lots of positive feedback, but  no offers though. We may do it again as soon as Saturday, if he can arrange it.  We spent all day Saturday and yesterday morning doing last-minute things to try [...]

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questions…

This morning I had a Dr. appointment. While waiting for a few minutes to be called, I noticed that there were no ( even outdated ) magazines on the bookshelf and tables – instead they were covered with pamphlets, advertisements, etc. for a myriad of drugs. You know the ones: resless leg syndrome, ADD, depression, [...]

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weekend

This morning the “For Sale” sign went up. Luckily I thought to leave a note ( put the sign where the paint can is sitting ) before I left on our walk. I came home and there it was – right in that spot! My chore for the day is to take a bunch of [...]

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Listed! ( at last )

Okay, so we officially have a house on the market. Now of course, we wait for the buyers to beat a path to our door instead of the 156 other single family houses in Santee that are currently listed.  Could we have picked a worse time?   Here is a link to the listing:http://listings1.sandicor.com/SearchDetail/Scripts/PrtBuyFul/PrtBuyFul.asp?prp=mls&AgentId=625468&EmailKey=50369359 Of course [...]

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Almost gone.

This has been a really hectic week here. What with getting things ready and into the trailer, realtor issues, car moving issues, and work. Turns out that the trailer had the wrong wheels and tires on it when it was built. This took a couple of days to iron out, but short story is that we bought [...]

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