And so it's begun. We're moving. We put it off as long as possible. But we got back from vacation and I finally called our Realtor and it's been "go! go! go!" ever since. Meetings, MLS listings to pour through, PODS to order, boxes to pick up, mountains of our stuff to go through, home drive-bys, home viewings ... and we haven't even started showing our own house yet. Today we started cleaning and packing with the intent of getting about 40-60 percent of our crap out of here so the home shows better. Hopefully we'll have that done (and moved into the curbside PODS) by next weekend. Then get a housecleaning service in here, get the place staged (courtesy of our wonderful Realtor Linda Biggerstaff and her home stager Anne Lasko ... yes, that is a plug) and get that sign put up out front.
Today we actually looked at our first house, and it was one we would buy. If we were going to live in it for 20 years, we wouldn't buy it. But considering we want to find a place we might be able to sell in the next five years (when that can't-pass-up job offer comes from our dream destination), it'd be a nice place to spend that time and has good resale value. Built in 2007, it's an open floor plan, four upstairs bedrooms and an absolutely gorgeous heated pool and spa out back. Good storage. Gated community (again, not really our thing, but folks around Dallas love it so we'd be able to sell it easily, we think). And the community has a couple walking/biking paths and a park for Wilder to play in.
We won't make an offer, because technically it's the first house we've looked at and that would be just, well, stupid. If it's meant to be, it'll still be on the market when we're ready to start making offers (good to get our house on the market first, you think??). ; )
Anyway, a couple pics of our state of living right now.
On one hand, these are scattered all over the house right now ...
on the other, my cabinets never looked like this while I actually really lived in this house.
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