One of many things I did very recently to get this house ready to put up for sale was to paint the front door. My friend Lucy pointed out some chipped paint on the frame; the realtor later mentioned the same on her first visit.
See?
So I did some digging to find something I remembered coming [...]
I’ve been busy as a beaver working on my home and (yesterday and) today the focus was the dining room. A couple of months ago, I kind of goofed: I tried to touch up the paint in the dining room… Only I used the wrong paint, and didn’t realize it until it dried. And then [...]
We have one more week of peace in this home before our house is officially on the market. I contacted a realtor through Dave Ramsey’s ELP (Endorsed Local Providers) program on his website and she came by this morning to check out the house. Overall, I was quite pleased and impressed with her, both personally [...]
I perused a new (to me) blog last night per Becky’s recommendation in the comments on my last post about preparing our house to sell. The Nester’s series on Staging a Home pretty much confirmed everything I am trying to do around here to get this house ready to sell, though I did come away [...]
I promise I’ll move on to more number crunching and budget drudgery soon, but you’ll have to excuse me a little longer as I continue to deal with the news of this upcoming move and the consuming preparation of getting this house ready to sell. It seems every time I get one thing done on [...]