Our house in Michigan is our house no more! The closing was today!
I don't do well with gag orders, and sitting on good news is almost more stressful than dealing with bad news (well, not quite), so the past month has been slow torture for me. Within three days of relisting our house with our new agent (Heather Herndon), we already had a handful of showings and received an offer. They then accepted our counter offer (which kept the price within $1,000 of our list price but had us paying their closing costs--still $14,000 more than the last offer), and we have been going through the process since.
I don't think that I need to express what a relief it is to have the house sold, freeing us up to look more seriously at houses up here. More importantly, I can talk about this on social media now without worrying that I might somehow screw up the process (even if only by jinxing it). I've been able to tell people directly, but it's been tough writing posts this past month with this major news occupying most of my brain.
Now that we're at this point, it almost doesn't seem real. There are a number of people who helped us get here. Foremost is my mother, Cheryl, who put in a superhuman amount of work into making the house presentable. Selling the house would have been much more difficult without her efforts. Our new realtor and her team, as noted above, were the turning point on a process that was taking much longer than I expected. Katrina and Peter helped in a number of ways, especially in the changing out of the insulation in the basement. A number of choir members from St. Mary's Star of the Sea put in shifts of much needed help. Steve and Alana made a large difference in ridding the house of much of its trash. John, my brother-in-law, did a number of repairs before helping Janelle with her move up. Katie gave us suggestions and help with updating the house.
... And there were certainly more, including the many of you who shared your advice and prayers. My deepest thanks go to everyone!
Now it's time to get house up here ...
I don't do well with gag orders, and sitting on good news is almost more stressful than dealing with bad news (well, not quite), so the past month has been slow torture for me. Within three days of relisting our house with our new agent (Heather Herndon), we already had a handful of showings and received an offer. They then accepted our counter offer (which kept the price within $1,000 of our list price but had us paying their closing costs--still $14,000 more than the last offer), and we have been going through the process since.
I don't think that I need to express what a relief it is to have the house sold, freeing us up to look more seriously at houses up here. More importantly, I can talk about this on social media now without worrying that I might somehow screw up the process (even if only by jinxing it). I've been able to tell people directly, but it's been tough writing posts this past month with this major news occupying most of my brain.
Now that we're at this point, it almost doesn't seem real. There are a number of people who helped us get here. Foremost is my mother, Cheryl, who put in a superhuman amount of work into making the house presentable. Selling the house would have been much more difficult without her efforts. Our new realtor and her team, as noted above, were the turning point on a process that was taking much longer than I expected. Katrina and Peter helped in a number of ways, especially in the changing out of the insulation in the basement. A number of choir members from St. Mary's Star of the Sea put in shifts of much needed help. Steve and Alana made a large difference in ridding the house of much of its trash. John, my brother-in-law, did a number of repairs before helping Janelle with her move up. Katie gave us suggestions and help with updating the house.
... And there were certainly more, including the many of you who shared your advice and prayers. My deepest thanks go to everyone!
Now it's time to get house up here ...
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