Home sale!

I realized I had several blogs half written so now I am updating them real quick while I have a chance. A lot has changed.

We are now 3 months into the house selling gig and one thing that I am pretty confident on is that We are never ever doing this again. Selling is not for the faint of heart. You have to be tough of nails and expect to spend tons of money just to make other people happy. Or at least that is our experience. Our house is 30+ years old not very old but just the same, things shift and change over 30 years. We have poured tens of thousands of dollars into the house just to keep it functional and have not had any time to update anything. So yes our house needs updating. The kitchen and 2 of the bathrooms are original to the house from 30 years ago and lets just say lots of things have changed in 30 years especially when it comes to house design. However our home is functional and all the appliances work.

We took our house off the market for a month and we painted and rearranged and emptied out about 2 1/2 rooms and the very first showing we had they put in an offer and we accepted and went into contract. Again I reitterate that selling a home is not for the faint of heart or for someone with no patience. I have definitely had a lesson in patience the past couple of months.

Now it is June and we close on our house in 3 weeks. Yes 3 weeks. Its crazy times around here getting everything packed and straightened up. We have our WDO inspection today and than the buyers have to schedule their survey and than its waiting for closing day to come. We are using a 1-800 packrat moving container and they are delivering it June 20th and picking it back up June 23rd. Jeremy has a friend that is driving with him up to Iowa and they are leaving with Molly on the 22nd and than I fly out the 24rth. I have to be there to sign for when they pick up the moving container and I don't want to try and cordinate a pickup and a flight the same day as I have time restraints when I get to Iowa due to when my grandma can pick me up so I am flying the 24rth. Once we get up there we will unload the container into our storage unit and then it will be the fun part of house hunting and spending time going to auctions, yard sales, plugging into the community, they have music in the square which will be fun to go do. We will get to Iowa in time for 4rth of July picnics and fire works. We are excited to move on with this chapter in our life and yet at the same time sad as we move away from family and friends and knowing that we will miss them.

Now off to go pack...