going good / going bad

So while I watch "Minding the Store" (which I love) I'm going to recap my weekend ... I spent the weekend packing up some shit and moving it into my parents garage so our house would look presentable for our open house ... the open house isn't for 2 weeks but the agents are coming here on Tuesday to figure out how much we can list this place for ... David and I are a bit nervous cause there are a bunch in our area up for sale ... I don't like that ... but oh well watcha gonna do ...

So Saturday while David was working I decided to bust out the office ... I rearranged it so it looked more spacious and packed up a ton of crap ... when I hooked my computer back up the monitor wouldn't work ... and I think in all the times we rebooted while trying to fix it the actual computer got killed ... fucking sucks ... it is only 6 months old so I think I am going to take it back and upgrade to a Dell from a Gateway ... hopfully CostCo will work it all out well

The condo is starting to look good ... hopfully I can bust everything out tomorrow when I get home and Tuesday morning since I am taking the day off ...

well I am going to get back to Minding the Store cause I love this show and look forward to it each weekend ... great show ... :)

Stress time has begun

So starting today when I get home I need to pack up a big chunk of our stuff ... it feels like half of our stuff (no furniture) and move it into my parents garage by Monday evening ... I also need to figure out if I can scrap together enough money to get our house professionally cleaned on Tuesday morning because Tuesday evening the selling agent is coming by to talk to us about the sale of the condo ... and I want it to be in open house condition ...

then anything else I need to do has to be finished by the 16th because starting on the 17th they will start showing the place to agents ... on the 21st we have our open house ...

then starting on the evening of the 21st I will have less than a week to pack up the rest of our stuff so we can move out on the 26th and move into our new home ... it is just a crazy plan and it is stressing me out to no end ...

I'd like to actually just spend the next two weeks packing up our house and move into the new place on the 20th and have the open house on the 28th ... but everyone agrees that we should look like we still live here and that we are neater than we actually are because it makes us look less desperate as sellers ... and I want to get as much money out of this place as I can ...

Still hard to believe

I still can't believe we got the house today ... I'm just floored by the whole thing ... when I got home from work today David and I took a drive by the place ... it is crazy how big the house is ... we didn't get to go inside but we sat out front for a while and just gazed at the place ... the we got out and walked all around ... peering into windows just jumping with joy ...

there was already even a sign out that said "under contract" ... man the agent must have stopped by after accepting our bid ...

wow no more Frenchie upstairs ... no more bats in the house ... no more stinky hallways ... and room for all our stuff ...

now I just gotta start clearing shit out of this place so it doesn't look so crowded to potential buyers ... :)

Original House Photos

Holy House Hunting ... We are Home owners

I am shocked ... stunned ... unable to speak ...

WE GOT THE HOUSE ...

It is crazy ... but Tom just called and said "Congratulations!!!!!" ...

The house is ours ... it is so awesome I am not even sure how to describe it ... it is a huge house in a great neighborhood ... there are projects galore ... and so much work to be done ... but it is all so exciting I can hardly believe it ...

wow ... wow ... wow ...

I think I'm going to go dance around for a bit ... :)

nervous nervous nervous

Our agent just called me and said that there were 3 contracts on the house but that the agent remembers meeting me and really liked me ... that we have the best contract and even though she doesn't usually include letters when she submits contracts she is going to include ours because she really wants to push for us ... she believes we will fix up the house and stay there a long time ...

the only downfall is that we can't escalate above the asking price ... and that might be the downfall ...

keeping my fingers crossed ... (which is making it hard to type)

Waiting game portion of the show

Well we signed about 100 places on our bid ... checked out the disclosures ... wrote a heartfelt letter to the people deciding about the house since they have a somewhat attachment to it (even though money talks louder than words) and submitted our bid at 5 PM this evening ...

and now we have come to the waiting game portion of the show ...

ahhh ... the joys of trying to buy a house in the greater DC area ...

I did get an email from our agent around 5:50 ... the selling agent had emailed him to see if we had an escalation clause ... unfortunately the asking price is our price cap ... which means our offer could get thrown out first thing tomorrow when they sit down to review contracts ...

I'm just going to be a wreck till Tom calls me tomorrow to tell me what happened ... even though I am guessing the place will go to someone else ...