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I haven't been the best with keeping up with life on the old blog. We're been busy and will continue to be really busy for the next month as we prepare to move as our house sold already ! Yea!
Within just a week and a half on the market we had not one but TWO offers on our house! We've been negotiating between the two and now have a GREAT primary offer in place and are still waiting to hear back on our counter offer for a backup contract. We really couldn't be more thrilled.
Truthfully we're getting quite a bit more for the house than I thought we would. Being a Realtor I had prepared Steve as much as possible when we put it up for sale by telling him that with this market it might take months before there's even any interest (actually my words were "I wouldn't be surprised if we were still here at Thanksgiving"). All that to say I was beyond excited last weekend when within 24 hours we had 2 offers on the house! God really did provide for us and I know that without him we wouldn't have these offers in place. It really is a miracle!
So....the big closing date is set for July 22nd and we're praying that everything goes smoothly between now and then with inspections and such. After we close we'll move in with Steve's parents for a month or so before we make the big move. We're not exactly sure of our moving date yet as we've had a few things come up that would require one of us staying in St. Louis until September 14th. I'm thinking that I might move up there towards the beginning of September and start looking for a job (and hopefully will find one quick) and then Steve could come up a bit later. That way at least one of us is working at all times rather than we both just quit our jobs and leave.
The jobs and the housing situation in Madison are our 2 main hurdles to cross next. We found a condo we liked a few months ago when we were visiting town but unforunately it sold and we're not seeing too much else that we like so that (along with the much higher housing costs there) has been discouraging.
Within just a week and a half on the market we had not one but TWO offers on our house! We've been negotiating between the two and now have a GREAT primary offer in place and are still waiting to hear back on our counter offer for a backup contract. We really couldn't be more thrilled.
Truthfully we're getting quite a bit more for the house than I thought we would. Being a Realtor I had prepared Steve as much as possible when we put it up for sale by telling him that with this market it might take months before there's even any interest (actually my words were "I wouldn't be surprised if we were still here at Thanksgiving"). All that to say I was beyond excited last weekend when within 24 hours we had 2 offers on the house! God really did provide for us and I know that without him we wouldn't have these offers in place. It really is a miracle!
So....the big closing date is set for July 22nd and we're praying that everything goes smoothly between now and then with inspections and such. After we close we'll move in with Steve's parents for a month or so before we make the big move. We're not exactly sure of our moving date yet as we've had a few things come up that would require one of us staying in St. Louis until September 14th. I'm thinking that I might move up there towards the beginning of September and start looking for a job (and hopefully will find one quick) and then Steve could come up a bit later. That way at least one of us is working at all times rather than we both just quit our jobs and leave.
The jobs and the housing situation in Madison are our 2 main hurdles to cross next. We found a condo we liked a few months ago when we were visiting town but unforunately it sold and we're not seeing too much else that we like so that (along with the much higher housing costs there) has been discouraging.
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