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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Good News!!!!

This post is for km since I think she must have had a feeling when she asked about how we were doing with selling house #1.  I am pleased to say we our under contract with house #1.  Inspections are complete and went fine.  We had just accepted the offer the day before km asked, but wanted to make sure everything went fine with the inspections before posting it here.  Appraisal will be Monday and the couple was pre-approved for a mortgage that is well above the sales price so everything should be set for a end of May or sooner closing.

Yeah....1 house sold and 1 to go, but we are now in good shape to move forward with building our Avalon!!!  Wahoo!!!!

9 comments:

  1. I know the feeling as we were holding our breath trying to find a suitable rented for house number one in record time!

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  2. Yay! Wow did not realize have more than one house to sell lots of work but I'm sure you will nail them down and get the price you are asking for. :)

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  3. Yay! That's great news. I'm so excited for you :)

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  4. Thats great! I wish we could sell ours, but since the economy is off, we are just going to rent for awhile! Great news though! You guys seem to be right on schedule!

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  5. Great news! We have someone coming in this week to get our house on the market.

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  6. That's great. I know this a weight off your shoulder.

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  7. Thanks everyone...yes it is a big weight off our shoulders. Anyone out there selling a house, just remember it is a buyer's market right now. We sold the house for at least 50K-80K less then it would have sold for 2 years ago.

    We had an interesting phenomena occur. With our original price everyone that came thru and looked at the house said it was priced right. We dropped the price 16K and the traffic thru the house increased, but we were getting a lot of comments saying it was priced too high...go figure...I guess the drop moved it into another group of buyers...moral of the story: Don't be afraid to drop the price...we sold it within 10 days of our price drop.

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  8. Great news!!! We were just talking about you the other night wondering if the house sold. I didn't realize that you have more than 1 house to sell.

    Our current house will officially go on the market this Friday. Part of us wants the house to sell quickly so we no longer have the burden; however, we don't want to have to move into temp. housing until our RH house is built (end of Aug/early Sept.).

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  9. HW...yep...I know what you are talking about regarding moving twice...we got the first house up on the market as fast as possible knowing that it would probably be a little harder to sell...I feel very good that it took just over 2 months and it is a huge load off our shoulders. We are planning to wait until about a month before our RH is due to be completed to put our current home on the market. The house across the street from us just sold in 4 days, so we feel pretty good about waiting...we really want to focus all our energy on our new Avalon once it has been completed and not have to worry too long about maintaining another home.

    We have the fun task of finding movers that can store stuff for us until we move in September...uggggg

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