Keeping Me Busy: Moving Onward

We've had a bit of a whirlwind the past few weeks. I had my last day of work a couple weeks ago, and then we immediately left the following day for a much needed family vacation to California. During my last week of work, I also had to get the house ready to be put on the market. Stressful, to say the least. We've been diligent about getting rid of things to Goodwill and taking things to my parents for them to store for us, but it's still a big process to get the house clean and clutter free and keep it that way with a dog and a baby underfoot.

Anyway, our house was posted online on a Friday afternoon, and our realtor already had several showings and an open house scheduled for the weekend we were leaving. We got a call Monday morning that there were four offers on the house - three above our asking price! We knew the inventory of houses in our neighborhood was small, and our house shows well, but… really?! It was a lot to process in such a small amount of time, especially since I was in vacation mode in sunny southern California. Of course we were excited and happy, but it's also a bittersweet feeling too. We got married and had our first baby while living in this house.

When we got home we had to deal with an inspection, and we're still waiting for the appraisal, but at this point, everything looks good to go. We are selling to a young couple getting married soon, and they don't need to be in the house until we're ready to get out, which is wonderful for us. I feel good about leaving the house in the hands of nice people (they even wrote us a letter!), and hope my neighbors won't have to deal with any future trouble. The hardest part about moving is leaving our family and friends (including some awesome neighbors) behind. I have really loved living in Alger Heights and will miss the sense of community it has.

Our house never looked better than when pictures were taken for the listing, so I asked to keep a copy of them to remember the house by. Our Realtor, Mike Karel with Remax is so great to work with. We highly recommend him to everyone. Please, please let me know if you need his contact info. We can't say enough good things about him. Here are some shots (photos by Jacob Harr of Harr Creative) of the house before we sold and started getting rid of and packing everything. We had to take down personal photos from the walls, etc., so it looks a little more bare to me than it usually does. But it's so clean!