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That showing scheduled for this morning? Yea. It’s actually tomorrow. My bad. Only it wasn’t. Because the Random Realtor did say Monday. Even Conner backed me up. When I called her (to ask why no one showed) and she said, oh so sweetly, “Oh, Jolyn, did I say Monday? If I did I am soooo [...]
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We recently took our house off the market, for at least a month.
It was a rather spur-of-the-moment decision. Or maybe “in-the-moment” would be a better description. Because we talked about taking it off over the holidays, and then putting it back on in the Spring. We discussed it and talked to people and ultimately decided not [...]
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…when you discover that one of them is actually a stalk of corn.
Corn and Life and Loose Metaphors
I have no idea how a corn seed blew into that our yard. None of our immediate neighbors have gardens. We aren’t terribly close to any fields. How did it flourish? We’ve barely had any rain in weeks. [...]
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Oh, my Lord Almighty in Heaven have mercy. Have you all seen the headlines about the recent housing market reports? About the economy in general? Not good. Not good at all. We already knew that, right? But somehow it’s different, seeing it all in black in white. As one report stated,
“….the toxic mix of that [...]
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This Series will focus on the steps we took to prepare our house to put on the market, the staging that we’ve done (and continue to do), and the feedback we are receiving from potential buyers. The focus is on our experience selling our home in suburban Ohio.
As of this writing, our house [...]
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I’m not sure if that really makes sense. Just work with me here.
The Hubs is Home!
As of Friday night, well after Olivia and Peter were in bed. But it was nice for Conner to have his dad all to himself for a bit.
Hubs slept fine that first night, courtesy of complete travel exhaustion. The little [...]
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House sale is a go. Prepare for launch.
I have no idea why I’m being so cheesy. Except – even lame humor releases tension.
We sold our house!
The buyers take possession June 25. Common-sense precaution nudges me to keep the details mum for now. Never fear, I will share the crunchy numbers once the dollars have safely [...]
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Wow, I hate to say I told you so. But I told you so.
We have an offer on the house. It’s not acceptable as-is, so we will counter. If they don’t accept our counter, that’s that. If they do…
We’ll be looking for a place to live for six months. Because here’s the kicker: The Hubs’ [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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