Its been a busy week and its not over yet!
I've spent the week cleaning, organizing and touching up paint. You could eat off of every floor in our house. Its never been this clean and organized.
We decided to list our house for sale. The sign went up on Wednesday. As I watched the sign being put up a moment of sadness sunk in. We have lived here for almost 8 years. There are a lot of memories in this home, a lot of firsts. Its not a bad house, we are just out growing it. It was never of a matter of if it was always a matter of when we would list it.
We did a lot of house hunting last year, but after finding out we were expecting Miles we put on a hold on searching as we were uncertain with his arrival especially after our 11 week scare in the ER and Harrison's 29 week arrival. We didn't want to be in a transition between houses and have a baby in the NICU, the timing wasn't right. As much as we didn't want to halt our search, we knew it was best based on the situation, though we had found a house we fell in love with. I told Doug, "if it's still there in a year, it's meant to be."
Well it's meant to be...almost. We placed a contingent offer on Tuesday and with very little negotiation, the offer was accepted. We have until January 31st to sell our house or we will have to try to extend our offer with the owners. The very bottom line? We have to sell our house, and sell it fast. We have our first open house Sunday.
I am not trying to get my hopes up. Only 147 houses sold in Winona last year. However, it's hard not to be excited.
I would be very happy to say in January this would be our new house...
The house needs some work...but it's move in ready for now other than some paint and new appliances the rest of the updates will be done later on. It will be part of making this our home. The home is a 4 bedroom 4 bathroom and just over 3,000 square feet. Its about 1,000 feet more of space than we currently have. There is plenty of room for us to stretch out in. The sun room is amazing and hopefully with make a future studio for photography.
As we prepared for listing, I decided to walk through our current home and photograph the rooms....kind of a lasting memory of what clean looks like. And if we do find a buyer, these were serve as a memory as our first home as a family.
Enjoy a tour of our home.
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I neglected to take photos of the last bedroom used more of a storage space than a bedroom. It's known as the photo prop room. It's organized, just not pretty enough to share.
We put a lot of money, work and sweat into our home. I hope our future home buyer takes care of our home.
Now, we wait.
I've spent the week cleaning, organizing and touching up paint. You could eat off of every floor in our house. Its never been this clean and organized.
We decided to list our house for sale. The sign went up on Wednesday. As I watched the sign being put up a moment of sadness sunk in. We have lived here for almost 8 years. There are a lot of memories in this home, a lot of firsts. Its not a bad house, we are just out growing it. It was never of a matter of if it was always a matter of when we would list it.
We did a lot of house hunting last year, but after finding out we were expecting Miles we put on a hold on searching as we were uncertain with his arrival especially after our 11 week scare in the ER and Harrison's 29 week arrival. We didn't want to be in a transition between houses and have a baby in the NICU, the timing wasn't right. As much as we didn't want to halt our search, we knew it was best based on the situation, though we had found a house we fell in love with. I told Doug, "if it's still there in a year, it's meant to be."
Well it's meant to be...almost. We placed a contingent offer on Tuesday and with very little negotiation, the offer was accepted. We have until January 31st to sell our house or we will have to try to extend our offer with the owners. The very bottom line? We have to sell our house, and sell it fast. We have our first open house Sunday.
I am not trying to get my hopes up. Only 147 houses sold in Winona last year. However, it's hard not to be excited.
I would be very happy to say in January this would be our new house...
As we prepared for listing, I decided to walk through our current home and photograph the rooms....kind of a lasting memory of what clean looks like. And if we do find a buyer, these were serve as a memory as our first home as a family.
Enjoy a tour of our home.
Front of House
Side of house
Kitchen
Down Stairs Bathroom
Formal Dining Room
Living Room
Master Bedroom
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Harrison's Room
Miles Room
Stair Case
Up Stairs Bathroom
Sun Room
We put a lot of money, work and sweat into our home. I hope our future home buyer takes care of our home.
Now, we wait.
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