Finally, the day had arrived! After all the lawyer stuff Tuesday, I can say that by Thursday, my 3 month long anxiety attack finally was feeling a bit of relief.
Moving is stressful. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.
First, you decide if you can afford to move ... yes? Okay, now to find a house.
We looked for houses first having been told our smaller sized house would likely sell fast.
So we looked and found a house we loved. Put an offer in and didn't get it. Luckily, there was the exact same floor plan, down the street, also for sale. Bigger lot and central air but needed a lot of paint and the yard needed work!
Done, we found a house. We put an offer in, they said yes. Then we had to sell our house.
Easy right? No!
Did you know, even if a home owner says yes to your offer, they can still continue to show their house and look for ether offers?! Talk about stressful!
We had a professional home stager come in and essentially tear our entire house apart, and put it back together with about 25% of the stuff in it to look like a show home.
The rest was packed (in about 3 days) and the professional photographer came in to take pictures.
Lucky for us, our neighbours house went up for sale the same day and their realtor had a buyer for us.
One showing only. All that work At least it was sold.
Then the packing began/ continued.
Then Elise started to crawl. Oh my!
Bank stuff, appointments, calls to transfer phone and internet and gas and water and power ... blah blah blah.
Finally on August 18, the house was ours. Trina let us in, showed us around and then left us with the keys.
Amazing.
Now if only my house would repopulate itself.
Because now we have boxes and boxes to unpack!
At least there isn't a timeline this time around.
Except I head back to work right away!
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