BUY OUR HOUSE! Life has continued its crazy course around here. I keep asking myself why I tend to go from one crisis to the next when I often roll my eyes at people who are "crisis-livers". Might I be a hypocrite??? No, no...Might I be in denial? Of course not! ;-)
Anyway, with the interest rates as low as the are, and with our being qualified for the "repeat home buyers credit", $6,500 tax credit if you buy a new home after being in yours for at least 5 (it'll be 7 in April), we started looking into purchasing a new home. I called a lender and got pre-approved to see what kind of $ we were looking at. Then, we started looking at homes and thinking about how to get our home ready for sale. One other reason to sell now is that there are more first time home buyers out looking, hoping to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit.
Well, the last month has been nothing but getting our house ready for the market. Painting, organizing, going through things, replacing fixtures, cleaning, etc, etc, etc. And as Chris puts it, I'm only at a "30% capacity" with being pregnant and tiring easily, etc. With lots, and I mean LOTS of help from my family, we've been able to meet our goal of having our house on the market by Feb. 1st. It has been incredibly stressful, tiring and overwhelming.
Call us crazy, but we're going to give FSBO a try. That's how we bought our house and it went smoothly. I realize there are quite a few things to think about come contract time so luckily we have at least one offer to help us with our contract. The other overwhelming thing is that we have no idea where we are going. So far, I don't love any of the homes we've looked at so we're putting a lot of faith in this and hoping/praying that everything will work out.
Marketing is the number one thing we have to do since the local MLS is not an option. We've put ads in the paper and online and I've created a blog to direct people to to get more info and to see pictures.
Check out our house blog and let me know what you think! Also, feel free to wish us good luck as we try to get this thing sold. 1808 Goodell Ct
