Well we had our house on the market for 9 days before we got an offer. We used these guys: discoverealty. Our agent was Travis. They worked with us and has a free staging consultant come to your home to help you get it ready to show. They took awesome pictures too. They always kept me in the loop, and answered all my questions. Thanks Travis and your team!
We closed beginning of June, and I am really happy we did. Don't get me wrong I miss my friends in the neighborhood, it was so much easier to barrow a cup a sugar when they were right next door, now... I have to go to the store! You know that feeling you get when you have been away from home for a long time and you get this excitement in your belly. When I go back to the neighborhood past "the old" house I don't get that. I think by the end of it we were really really happy to leave. I am sure it will be great for the new owners, since we fixed everything while we lived in it. We had to repair so much in that house that by the end I think we really hated living there. One chapter of our life is done, ready to open tons a news ones.
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| Mommy and Declan |
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| Last days of cleaning just missing one thing... |
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| Sunrise from the old house |
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| These are the birds that lived in our hitch of the trailer, luckily for us they left before we had to. |
While we are building we are renting. In order to stay on the main floor for Declan (We started the process to get a wheelchair, I will post about that later) we had to get a... 2 bedroom apartment..... to say it is a tight fit is an understatement. Ok going from a 5 bedroom home to a 2 bedroom apartment is hard so this is what you gotta to do:
1) Declutter: Those treadmills that are sitting in your garage... they are not there for decoration and since you probably don't know how to use them I suggest selling them.
2) Get A Storage Unit: A 5X10 doesn't fit anything you need to find one of the biggest units where it will be easy to get in and out of. Also stack boxes! Go up to the ceiling or until your boxes start to look like the leaning tower of pisa.
3) Use every nook and cranny in your apartment: Oh that's the master bedroom walk in closet you say?... Oh nope it now holds your babies changing table, and every miscellaneous box that you think you needed in your little place. Oh they gave you a stackable washer and dryer? Well look at that when you move that over it gives you a perfect place to put your freezer... what you can't shut the laundry door? Oh well deal with it!
4) Find places to go: You may think to yourself "naw I can stay inside the apartment with 5 people, and tons of baby toys everywhere" Yeah well you would be wrong. See first you don't notice it but you start to go a little crazy, you get this far away look in your eye, and you start to contemplate the murdering of your older children... and you start to think "It might be worth going to jail".... SO to avoid this from happening find somewhere to go. Go to the clubhouse and play at the pool or park or in our case splash pad. Go for walks, even sitting on the porch out of the cramped space will help. Read a good book, if your like me then you would be diving into my favorite author's books (That would be Sherrilyn Kenyon for you that don't know, there is nothing like a great romance!) But I advise you not to kill your children, they might be the president some day. (the president of the nerds is probably more likely, but I didn't want to crush their dreams)
5) Alcohol: enough said, AND or for those of you that don't drink the hard stuff a big glass of Dr. Pepper does wonders, it's what the doctor's ordered "wink wink" (Since I am trying to look beautiful for my sister's wedding come August the only drinks I have been drinking is water :( My hubby says I am pretty mean without my caffeine, and I have to agree with him... I will have you again Dr. Pepper I promise!
Well those are the best suggestions I can give you. Yes it will be a tight fit, yes you will get on each others nerves, yes you will be too broke or poor to go out all the time. BUT think of what is to come. Our future is coming and we can't wait for it to start!
I want to say a very special Thank You to our friends (who know who you are H&N) for watching our babies (Mickey & Cooper) while we deal with these small dwellings. We miss them, but we know your taking care of them.
Also to everyone who helped us move! T that flatbed helped a lot! Thank You Thank You!
Picture of the apartment below, yes I know it's messy, and no I don't care...
D&K are a sharing room, and Mom and Dad are also sharing one with Declan... fun times.
I do have to say the master bath here is bigger than the one we had... but everything else feels like it shrunk...
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| Sun bathing |
Places we have gone:
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