We got the call on Friday that the buyers had reconsidered our counteroffer...and have signed the paperwork to buy the house. WE ARE OUTTA HERE!!
We open escrow today. We're writing the closing date at September 26th, 2005, so it looks like we'll be moving to Georgia that week, possibly taking a plane flight that day.
I'll post more later, send your congratulations. :-)
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Monday, August 15, 2005
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
More of the same, and a little on the side
What a banner week so far, two days, several blogs!
Took the kids out for a walk last night, boy do they like that. It's really nice here during monsoon season in the evenings. It is about 80 degrees and humid (which they like and to us it's nice and cool). We walked up to the neighbors house and looked at the donkey and horse that the neighbor's just bought. The kids really like getting out of the house, and generally pay attention to me.
I did have a little adventure at Target yesterday on my way home. I bought one of these storage bins 16 days ago, and they went on sale.
I decided that for $20, I'll "return" the one that I bought and get another one. Well, since I purchased it more than 14 days ago, I had to actually return the product in order to then re-buy the product at the lower rate. As it turns out, the price matching at Target only applies to the first 14 days. Hrm, well, that made things slightly more difficult as I have already been using the storage bin for 2 weeks, and it's full of toys and the boxes have been trashed already. The associate was nice, but assured me there was nothing that he could do, so I said thanks, and "maybe I'll just go buy another one, and return it with the $60 receipt."...to which he replied, "if that's what you have to do, that's fine, just remember that you said it, not me". So off I went, buying another one at $40, just to return it for $60. 10 minutes later, I'm standing in front of the same guy telling him that the bin "just didn't meet my needs", to which he replies "that works for me". Then another trip through Target to buy yet another one this time for $40. All in all, in order to get my $20 I spent about an hour at Target. I can't decide if it was really worth it or not.
On another note, as I'm printing out the info-tube info sheets, the realtor calls and asks if the buyers that we've been playing footsies with can walk the property this morning. I'm not entirely sure what that means, but at least they're not out of the picture yet. Last night the realtor called and said that the buyers think that we're asking too much for the property, (we are), and would we entertain offers? I said sure! we'd entertain offers, of course we would! So we're again (still?) in waiting mode and hoping that they do make a reasonable offer so we don't have to dance the "sell the house" dance too awful much. Stef has been running the numbers and has already figured out our "rock bottom price", which we have to get in order to be satisfied. We'll see, and I'll keep you posted.
Seacrest Out!
Took the kids out for a walk last night, boy do they like that. It's really nice here during monsoon season in the evenings. It is about 80 degrees and humid (which they like and to us it's nice and cool). We walked up to the neighbors house and looked at the donkey and horse that the neighbor's just bought. The kids really like getting out of the house, and generally pay attention to me.
I did have a little adventure at Target yesterday on my way home. I bought one of these storage bins 16 days ago, and they went on sale.
I decided that for $20, I'll "return" the one that I bought and get another one. Well, since I purchased it more than 14 days ago, I had to actually return the product in order to then re-buy the product at the lower rate. As it turns out, the price matching at Target only applies to the first 14 days. Hrm, well, that made things slightly more difficult as I have already been using the storage bin for 2 weeks, and it's full of toys and the boxes have been trashed already. The associate was nice, but assured me there was nothing that he could do, so I said thanks, and "maybe I'll just go buy another one, and return it with the $60 receipt."...to which he replied, "if that's what you have to do, that's fine, just remember that you said it, not me". So off I went, buying another one at $40, just to return it for $60. 10 minutes later, I'm standing in front of the same guy telling him that the bin "just didn't meet my needs", to which he replies "that works for me". Then another trip through Target to buy yet another one this time for $40. All in all, in order to get my $20 I spent about an hour at Target. I can't decide if it was really worth it or not.On another note, as I'm printing out the info-tube info sheets, the realtor calls and asks if the buyers that we've been playing footsies with can walk the property this morning. I'm not entirely sure what that means, but at least they're not out of the picture yet. Last night the realtor called and said that the buyers think that we're asking too much for the property, (we are), and would we entertain offers? I said sure! we'd entertain offers, of course we would! So we're again (still?) in waiting mode and hoping that they do make a reasonable offer so we don't have to dance the "sell the house" dance too awful much. Stef has been running the numbers and has already figured out our "rock bottom price", which we have to get in order to be satisfied. We'll see, and I'll keep you posted.
Seacrest Out!
Monday, August 08, 2005
Sorry mom
I didn't take any pictures last night, so I put up some that I could find. Hope these are "alright" enough for the girls.
I'll try to remember to take some more today.
me
I'll try to remember to take some more today.
me
House is still for sale...Interested?
The "buyers" haven't bought the house...grr...I know that it was really too good to be true (to sell the house for more than we thought without even putting it up for sale), but I sure was hoping that they would have gone through with the deal. Let's not jinx it, they might still buy the place, but we haven't heard anything from the realtor, so we're not counting our windfall yet.
We decided to get a little proactive and put the house up FSBO (for sale by owner) this weekend, we put a bunch of signs out, hope that drives some traffic. We've also decided to up the price again, heh, hope also that that doesn't drive people away! We'll see.
I did a bunch of landscaping, yard maintenance this weekend, trying to make the place "drive by pretty", the trees really like all of this rain we've been getting and have to be clipped all the time it seems. We've got chilean mesquites all over the house and they're growing like mad. I cut about 4 wheelbarrows full of clippings off of the trees (4 trees are about 10 feet tall, two are about 5 feet tall).
I did also manage to get all of the solar lights out as well, they've been sitting in the shed for ages (AGES), now they're in use and all the way down the driveway as well as the walk to the shed.
With the info tube that we bought, we get a "webspace" listing, so we'll be updating that over the next few days, adding information, pictures, half-truths, etc. I think the url is: HOME FOR SALE, please remember that I just now created that, it doesn't have pictures yet, nor any descriptions, as I said, we'll be updating that over the next few days.
Seacrest OUT
We decided to get a little proactive and put the house up FSBO (for sale by owner) this weekend, we put a bunch of signs out, hope that drives some traffic. We've also decided to up the price again, heh, hope also that that doesn't drive people away! We'll see.
I did a bunch of landscaping, yard maintenance this weekend, trying to make the place "drive by pretty", the trees really like all of this rain we've been getting and have to be clipped all the time it seems. We've got chilean mesquites all over the house and they're growing like mad. I cut about 4 wheelbarrows full of clippings off of the trees (4 trees are about 10 feet tall, two are about 5 feet tall).I did also manage to get all of the solar lights out as well, they've been sitting in the shed for ages (AGES), now they're in use and all the way down the driveway as well as the walk to the shed.
With the info tube that we bought, we get a "webspace" listing, so we'll be updating that over the next few days, adding information, pictures, half-truths, etc. I think the url is: HOME FOR SALE, please remember that I just now created that, it doesn't have pictures yet, nor any descriptions, as I said, we'll be updating that over the next few days.
Seacrest OUT
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
House update
Apparently the buyers liked the pictures and the price, they're coming over tomorrow to look at the house...So needless to say, we're clearing everything out of the closets and trying to arrange the kids toys in a "nice" pile. (lol) Invested in a steam cleaner, hehe, we should buy stock in that company. Whoever invented clear kool aid should get a pat on the back and a roll of stickers, and if they're reading this...THANK YOU!.
We could be in Georgia next month if all goes perfectly....whoooot!
keep ya posted!!
BTW...
If you want your kid "enrolled" in a sticker club, email me, I can send you what I'm talking about. Basically its a "chain mail sticker club" where kids end up getting mail from all over the place (world possibly) that has stickers in the mail, and it costs little to participate (little = cost of 6 sets of stickers and postage).
Let me know if you're interested.
Outtie...
We could be in Georgia next month if all goes perfectly....whoooot!
keep ya posted!!
BTW...
If you want your kid "enrolled" in a sticker club, email me, I can send you what I'm talking about. Basically its a "chain mail sticker club" where kids end up getting mail from all over the place (world possibly) that has stickers in the mail, and it costs little to participate (little = cost of 6 sets of stickers and postage).
Let me know if you're interested.
Outtie...
Monday, August 01, 2005
What a funny
I saw this today, what a relief from the monotony of work, lol.
Click Me To View
This one also was funnier than that one, lol
Click Here
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And for those of you that asked about the movies, and that you couldn't view them, you should try "right-clicking" the links, and choosing "save as" from the choices, once downloaded to (somewhere on) your computer, then play them.
Let me know how it goes.
Click Me To View
This one also was funnier than that one, lol
Click Here
...........
And for those of you that asked about the movies, and that you couldn't view them, you should try "right-clicking" the links, and choosing "save as" from the choices, once downloaded to (somewhere on) your computer, then play them.
Let me know how it goes.
Realtors, housing market, moving..........OH MY
Well, the realtor came by yesterday, pre-loaded with an interested buyer...We'll hear back from him today I think. If all goes as good as it can go, we'll have sold the house for more than we thought it was worth, without even putting it up for sale! How's that for luck?!
It could be that we're sold and moved to Georgia in September, wow! I'm shocked actually. I didn't think even wildly that it could be this easy, not that we've sold yet - or that the buyer has agreed to a price, but we're sure hoping that they really like it and want to get the deal done ASAP. Another good thing about this is that if this buyer does buy it, we're not going to have to list it, which means that the realtor will work with us on the commission, so we stand to "take back" some of the 6% that they charge, which would be a DOUBLE bonus (LOL).
I'll keep you all (the two of you) posted on the "sale"...
On another note...
the zipingo.com website that we launched (see earlier blog post) goes live soon, I've done my obligitory 14 ratings and am now in the running for an iPod mini:
cross your fingers for me.
Seacrest OUT
It could be that we're sold and moved to Georgia in September, wow! I'm shocked actually. I didn't think even wildly that it could be this easy, not that we've sold yet - or that the buyer has agreed to a price, but we're sure hoping that they really like it and want to get the deal done ASAP. Another good thing about this is that if this buyer does buy it, we're not going to have to list it, which means that the realtor will work with us on the commission, so we stand to "take back" some of the 6% that they charge, which would be a DOUBLE bonus (LOL).
I'll keep you all (the two of you) posted on the "sale"...
On another note...
the zipingo.com website that we launched (see earlier blog post) goes live soon, I've done my obligitory 14 ratings and am now in the running for an iPod mini:
cross your fingers for me.
Seacrest OUT
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