After 12 days on the market, we got an offer. After an accepted counter-offer and 3 weeks of waiting, our house finally closed yesterday! We feel pretty lucky, but truthfully, we took good care of the house and Mary did a fantastic job staging it. Considering the market, we hit it pretty close to our asking price as well. Had we sold last year, or the year before that..I’m sure we would have done better.
We started our new home search last weekend on Saturday with a tour of 15 homes. I’m amazed at the condition of some of the places we saw; railings hanging off the walls, dirty windows, dust and out of control lawns. It’s no wonder people have trouble selling some homes when they’re in that kind of condition.
We look at another 8 homes on Sunday, then who knows. We’re in no huge hurry, but it would be nice to find “the place” soon!
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June 25, 2008 at 6:27 am
Joe, I wish you luck. What areas are you looking in?
This is probably not one of the better markets right now, but something will turn up.