We will be living here:
PHOTO REMOVED... Not buying that house afterall!
We are so excited!
Showing posts with label For Sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For Sale. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
SOLD!
We did it! We sold our home and when Memorial Day comes around, we will not be living here:
We will be living here:
PHOTO REMOVED... Not buying that house afterall!
We are so excited!
We will be living here:
PHOTO REMOVED... Not buying that house afterall!
We are so excited!
Monday, April 2, 2012
Selling Our House: An Update!
We put our house on the market on Thursday. Less than 24 hours later, I got a call requesting a showing for Sunday. Mike and I were in Indy for a little weekend getaway so it was perfect! Feedback from the realtor was, "Shows nice, may be interested."
I went to pick the girls up on Sunday and Mike called me. He said that there were two separate families that stopped by to get the number of our realtor off the sign. I called our realtor to set up a time to go look at houses because we figured this would be a quick sale! We need to get our ducks in a row!
About 30 minutes later, right as I was pulling up to our house, our realtor called me back requesting a showing for Monday (today) at 5:15.
We meet with our lender tonight to figure out our budget. We meet with our realtor on Wednesday to look at houses. This whole process is going just a tad bit faster than I had expected! We are over the moon excited, but a little stressed! I'm in the middle of planning Jaden's 5th birthday party (sneak peek coming soon!) and I have photos from a recent shoot that are begging to be edited! It's all pretty nuts over here, but this is what we wanted, right? My original goal was to be in a new house by July 1st. It doesn't sound like that is going to be a problem...
Stick with me as blogging may take the back seat every now and then. It's hard work keeping a spotless house with four grubby hands touching everything! In the meantime, if anyone is interested in helping out, you are more than welcome to stop by with a box! Fill it up, label it, stack it in the garage and be on your merry way :o)
I went to pick the girls up on Sunday and Mike called me. He said that there were two separate families that stopped by to get the number of our realtor off the sign. I called our realtor to set up a time to go look at houses because we figured this would be a quick sale! We need to get our ducks in a row!
About 30 minutes later, right as I was pulling up to our house, our realtor called me back requesting a showing for Monday (today) at 5:15.
We meet with our lender tonight to figure out our budget. We meet with our realtor on Wednesday to look at houses. This whole process is going just a tad bit faster than I had expected! We are over the moon excited, but a little stressed! I'm in the middle of planning Jaden's 5th birthday party (sneak peek coming soon!) and I have photos from a recent shoot that are begging to be edited! It's all pretty nuts over here, but this is what we wanted, right? My original goal was to be in a new house by July 1st. It doesn't sound like that is going to be a problem...
Stick with me as blogging may take the back seat every now and then. It's hard work keeping a spotless house with four grubby hands touching everything! In the meantime, if anyone is interested in helping out, you are more than welcome to stop by with a box! Fill it up, label it, stack it in the garage and be on your merry way :o)
Thursday, March 29, 2012
FOR SALE!
It's official! Our house is up for sale! We will have a sign in our yard by the time we get home from work today :o) It has been a BUSY and stressful couple of weeks trying to get it ready, but we did it! For you, an official house tour:
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| The front of the house |
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| Our back yard |
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| The patio with built-in fire pit |
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| The living room. This is the first room that you walk into from the front door. |
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| Kitchen |
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| Dining Room |
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| Family Room |
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| Full Bathroom |
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| Taylor's Bedroom |
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| Jaden's Bedroom |
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| Our Bedroom |
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| Half bathroom connected to our bedroom. |
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| The Basement - family room area |
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| Basement - bar area |
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| Basement - storage room |
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| Basement - laundry/utility room |
Wish us luck! Hopefully we sell fast and move early in the summer so we have the rest of the summer to relax in our new house!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Killing Me Softly - 5 Months
Remember back when Mike and I met with our realtor about putting our house up for sale? Well, we didn't list it. Five and a half years ago we paid $100,000 for our home. Over the span of four years (when we met with Jane) we had only paid off a teensy bit of our mortgage. We went to the bank and got an amortization schedule. It showed us how much of our monthly mortgage payment was going toward the principle and how much was being donated going toward the interest. Basically, with how the economy and housing market is today, we wanted to get at least $90,000 for our home. To walk away from a sale with money for a down payment on a new home (instead of literally paying someone to buy it), we obviously needed to owe less than $90,000. According to our amortization schedule, we would be at that point by November 1st of this year. So, last February we decided to tough it out for one more year, make the necessary improvements, and get our house on the market by April 1, 2012. We have 5 months left.
First up on the schedule is the dreaded family room. This has been an unending room of problems since 2007. It's a great room! Lots of natural lighting, laminate wood floors, gas fireplace, outside patio access, you name it! We spend the majority of our time in that room. BUT, in 2007 (shortly after Jaden was born), we experienced a crisis. Apparently the roof leaked when we bought the house and the seller lied about knowing it did. According to our neighbors, he was on the roof with tar after it rained every time. You see, he had installed skylights in that room. Skylights for a pitched roof. On a flat roof. We could never make plans when there was rain in the forecast because we had to make sure we were home to strategically place buckets all over. My grandpa tried to help us out by tarring around the skylights. He even put a new roof over that room (it's an addition). During his re-roofing, we discovered that because of the moisture, we had rotted wood and a carpenter ant problem! Unfortunately, re-roofing only made the problem worse. We woke up one rainy morning to 18 different leaks in one room. We had to move everything out. We had couches in our dining room and the rest of the stuff in our living room. It was awful. I cried every single day of my life for a very long time because of the stress that room caused us. We depleted our savings account and borrowed money from our parents and hired a crew to come in and rip out the skylights and replace the roof on the entire house. We didn't bother having them fix the ceiling from the inside. We just wanted the leaks to stop. Since then, we have not had one single leak! Now, we just have two gaping holes where skylights used to be. You can literally see the plywood that is under our shingles. In addition, we have the water damage to the ceiling from the 18 leaks. It's a mess.
Fortunately, I have an awesome friend that hooked us up with a great guy that is coming over bright and early tomorrow morning to renovate that room at a very reasonable price! Not only is he fixing the ceiling, he is also repairing cracks that we caused by the settling of the room. I'm taking Monday off work to repaint and put the room back together. I'm thrilled to have this project upon us! This was the one major thing that needed to be done. Everything else (pretty much) is just icing on the cake!
Now, I need your expert advice. I have only a couple of days to decide on a color to paint! Right now, the room is yellow with a green accent wall. There are a ton of windows, too. You can see a lot of the room here and here. It is connected to our dining room that is painted a terra cotta orange color. Oh, and we have a red chair and an off-white couch that will be staying in there. Help me out!
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First up on the schedule is the dreaded family room. This has been an unending room of problems since 2007. It's a great room! Lots of natural lighting, laminate wood floors, gas fireplace, outside patio access, you name it! We spend the majority of our time in that room. BUT, in 2007 (shortly after Jaden was born), we experienced a crisis. Apparently the roof leaked when we bought the house and the seller lied about knowing it did. According to our neighbors, he was on the roof with tar after it rained every time. You see, he had installed skylights in that room. Skylights for a pitched roof. On a flat roof. We could never make plans when there was rain in the forecast because we had to make sure we were home to strategically place buckets all over. My grandpa tried to help us out by tarring around the skylights. He even put a new roof over that room (it's an addition). During his re-roofing, we discovered that because of the moisture, we had rotted wood and a carpenter ant problem! Unfortunately, re-roofing only made the problem worse. We woke up one rainy morning to 18 different leaks in one room. We had to move everything out. We had couches in our dining room and the rest of the stuff in our living room. It was awful. I cried every single day of my life for a very long time because of the stress that room caused us. We depleted our savings account and borrowed money from our parents and hired a crew to come in and rip out the skylights and replace the roof on the entire house. We didn't bother having them fix the ceiling from the inside. We just wanted the leaks to stop. Since then, we have not had one single leak! Now, we just have two gaping holes where skylights used to be. You can literally see the plywood that is under our shingles. In addition, we have the water damage to the ceiling from the 18 leaks. It's a mess.
Fortunately, I have an awesome friend that hooked us up with a great guy that is coming over bright and early tomorrow morning to renovate that room at a very reasonable price! Not only is he fixing the ceiling, he is also repairing cracks that we caused by the settling of the room. I'm taking Monday off work to repaint and put the room back together. I'm thrilled to have this project upon us! This was the one major thing that needed to be done. Everything else (pretty much) is just icing on the cake!
Now, I need your expert advice. I have only a couple of days to decide on a color to paint! Right now, the room is yellow with a green accent wall. There are a ton of windows, too. You can see a lot of the room here and here. It is connected to our dining room that is painted a terra cotta orange color. Oh, and we have a red chair and an off-white couch that will be staying in there. Help me out!
Have you entered my giveaway yet for a free one-year subscription (or extension) to Disney Family Fun magazine? Such an awesome giveaway with absolutely no obligation to buy future subscriptions at all!
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Pumpkins, Monkeys, and Zebras, OH MY!
A couple of weeks ago, the girls and I met Mom and Dad at Schmucker's Farm to pick out the perfect pumpkins! J had seen that other people had pumpkins sitting outside and wondered why we didn't have any.
First, the girls each got to pick out a tiny pumpkin to sit in their rooms.
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| Taylor was a little grumpy, but cute nonetheless! |
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| J and I loved the little white pumpkins! Seriously, I wanted to buy like 10 or 20 of those cute little things! |
Then, they each got to pick out a small pumpkin to paint!
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| Jaden picked out the perfect pumpkin to paint! |
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| Gramma J helped Taylor find one perfect for her! |
Jaden has a new fascination with gourds, so she got to pick out a few to take home.
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| Jaden picked out some gourds to add to our fall decor at home. |
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| Taylor even found one that she liked! |
We also got one big pumpkin to carve into a Jack-O-Lantern! Before we left, Gramma J and Gramps treated the girls to a little snack :o)
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| It's amazing how giant Smarties can make a girl smile! |
It was a fun time! Then, as we were getting ready to leave, Mom remembered that she had some hats for me that I had ordered for the girls! A friend of mine whom I went to high school with made these cute animal hats for them!
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| You can see the mane on J's zebra hat better in this picture. |
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| I got an ear warmer headband and LOVE it! |
I'm almost looking forward to the colder weather so we can wear these! They are so warm and CUTE!
If you would like LeeAnne to make a hat for you, you can email her at
lmwoodward3{at}gmail{dot}com
lmwoodward3{at}gmail{dot}com
She is seriously one talented mama! Thanks, LeeAnne!!
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