FINALLY- June 28

Finally, our house is officially sold. 
We were extremely pleased with the speed at which our house sold. 
It went on the market Monday around noon. 
I sat around all day with butterflies just waiting to be asked to leave. I didn't let the kids play with toys, we just sat in a spotless house. So frustrating! 
I got a call around 4 that someone wanted to come see it. 
Really??!! 
I knew it was going to happen but I was still shocked when it did. I tidied, packed up the kids and dog and headed to my mom's house. C met us there after work. 
I called Trina around 7:30, just to make sure it was safe to go back home.  She told me she thinks they are writing an offer, TONIGHT! 
It was amazing, they did write an offer, we eventually come to an agreement late Monday night. 
Wow, SOLD. Without it ever hitting MLS online, no sign up and no lock box on. 
Amazing. 
They just had two conditions and had 8 days to get them completed. 
The best part about selling our house so fast was now no one could put in any offers on our new house. What a relief. I had no idea until this crazy two weeks that real estate could be so sneaky and stressful. 
Even though a home owner has accepted your offer (with the condition you sell your house), they are still able to show their house and accept other offers. You then have only 48 hours to remove your conditions, our you loose the house to someone else.
Lucky for us, our home owners also have two small kids and once they "sold" to us, they weren't interested in keeping their house "ready to show" clean and didn't allow anyone else in to view it. 

The people buying our house's 8 days were up today. We got the call this afternoon that everything was great and all conditions off our house were listed which then lifted our last condition (to sell our house) and now our new house is sold too. 
Such a relief. 
We're very excited! We get possession August 18 and have a week to be out of our current home. 

I'll post pictures of the transformation once we are in!