The difference two weeks can make

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A story for you.

Friday, May 31st - My MIL told me about a house near hers that was for sale. She'd been to a garage sale there and thought it was worth mentioning to me (so glad she did!). I looked it up online since it hadn't shown up on my auto-sent emails due to the garage stalls not being the same number (2 instead of 3). Well look at that! A 5 bedroom house in our city that isn't a bilevel. And it's in our price range. And it's on the river. Interesting. I called hubby and had him look at the information. I then called the Realtor to see if we could see it. She told us that there would be an open house on Sunday and we hung up. Later in the evening, my impatience took over and I decided to email her to see it sooner than that.

Saturday, June 1st - At 8:00 AM, we loaded up the girls and went to meet the Realtor at the house. We looked around and were smitten. There were a lot of things to change and update, but it was move-in-ready and had a lot of potential. Neither of us acted too excited, though. We knew that it was a long shot. The house seemed over priced and had some funky things about it.

Sunday through Tuesday - We thought about it and talked about it with family and friends

Wednesday, June 5th - I called our old Realtor from when we had bought our current home and he said we should come in right away if we wanted to make an offer because it's a seller's market. We went in that evening (with the girls, what were we thinking??) and made a super low offer with no negotiations allowed and tried to keep our expectations low. We were expecting a big fat NO.

Friday, June 7th - Our Realtor told us that we did in fact get the big fat NO, but good news! They had lowered the price by 10,000. Interesting. Was this their way of countering our low offer? We decided to make another offer that was above what we had originally thought was our "lowest" and met them more in the middle. They countered, and we accepted! 

The deal was that there were two contingencies. One, our house had to sell before we can close so we can have the new house financed. Two, the house had to pass an inspection. With that information in hand, we knew we needed to get to work on our current house as it was not even close to ready to sell.

We spent the whole weekend and early part of the next week moving half of our stuff out to make the home seem more spacious and comfortable, and hubby worked extra hard on getting the little things done (like trim, yard work, paint touch ups, etc). Hubby's parents helped with all of it (what a huge help they were ohmygoodness) and my sister came down to help babysit the girls so I could focus on the task at hand. Seriously, family can be so great. 

Tuesday, June 11th - our Realtor came over to fill out the disclosure and take pictures. Our house has never looked so good. 

Wednesday, June 12th - We started getting calls from other Realtors looking to set up times to show our house to their clients. A total of 8 showings in the first day - not bad! The girls and I high tailed it out of there to the lake. Do you know how hard it is to keep a house perfectly staged with two kids under two? The answer: impossible. Off we went. 

Wednesday, June 12th at 11:00 PM - Hubby calls to tell me that our house is sold. Excuse me? It hasn't even been listed for 24 hours.



God is so good.
And by the way, this story is true. More details to come!




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