Selling Our House in 6 Days
This story about how we sold our house in less than a week was sponsored by Massage Envy as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central.
Now this is a story all about how our life got flipped-turned upside down… 😉 It all started on Halloween. Wait, actually it all started when the “Yellow House” went up for sale this summer. Let me back track…
The “Yellow House” was a house that I had my eye on since I was a kid. Out of curiosity, I mentioned to our realtor that it had a FOR SALE sign in front of it. She ran the numbers and gave us an estimate of what our mortgage payment would be. Turns out it would be $400 more per month than what we pay now, which I thought was TOTALLY out of our price range (me being the frugal person that I am). It wasn’t.
After taking some time to discuss, we decided that maybe we should take a look and “see what’s out there“. We wanted to move before interest rates go up, and we knew we didn’t want Bean to go to school in the district that we live in. With her approaching Kindergarten, now seemed like a good time to start to get things rolling. But, we were going to take things slowly, not rush into anything… yeah, right.
Halloween day we had nine houses to tour (one of which was the “Yellow House“). Each house had things about it we weren’t totally keen on, and to my dismay this included the “Yellow House“. For one, it had no basement (which is odd for Minnesota, when it’s not by any water) and the layout was a little odd for our tastes. But, there was a shining gem out of the nine. The house that my realtor told us was our house before we even realized it. The “Denver House“. We fell in love, and made an offer the very next day (Sunday). But there was a catch: we had a house to sell that was totally unprepared for being on the market (we were “just looking”, remember?) Sunday evening began the massive task of gutting our house to prepare for selling.
We spent a few hours Sunday night taking out excess furniture, packing up any personal photos (goodbye, gallery wall), taking half of our stuff out of our closets, and moving everything into my parent’s basement to store. My husband took work off on Monday to continue taking extra “stuff” out of the house (including Bean’s ungodly amount of toys) and started getting the house clean. Tuesday continued the cleaning, wall hole patching/painting, and packing process (you don’t know how much crap you have until you have to hide it). I had an appointment for Wednesday morning to get the carpet’s professionally cleaned, and then our realtor was coming over to take photos for the listing. By golly I got it all done, minus a few things we had to scoot out of the pictures. The listing went up the very next day (Thursday).
After 4 days of intense physical activity and staying up way too late trying to get everything done, I mistakenly thought that I could maybe take a few minutes to rest my exhausted body after dropping Bean off at pre-school. Nope. Up popped an appointment for a showing for that afternoon. I knew they would start coming in, but I had no idea how fast. There were still final touches to be done! Caulking that needed to be redone! Windows that needed to be washed! Rabbit mess that needed to get gone! I had no choice; I sucked it up, wiped away the tears, and got that house ready for a showing in an hour and a half. I lost clumps of hair because of it, but I did it. And then the people decided they didn’t like the neighborhood and never went inside (GAHHHHH!!!!)
After that fateful day, we had at least one showing each day following and about a dozen more disappointments. And then… a miracle happened. We received an offer just 6 days after listing our house. It was low, but we negotiated it back to our ideal agreement, and we’re now waiting upon an inspection to finalize everything. Say what?! The perfectionist in me thought it would sell in the first three showings (hah, seriously I did) but 6 days on the market ain’t bad!
This two week long whirlwind has definitely taken it’s toll on my body and my mind. Although I am relieved that things seem to be wrapping up, I am completely physically and mentally exhausted. This is why I NEED to get in to Massage Envy. We’re only halfway through this intense process and my body needs a recharge before we actually start moving! Being a former hairstylist who used to be able to get a free massage whenever I needed, I know the benefit that massage has on your body and mind. In my opinion, it’s not a luxury it’s something everyone should take the time for.
If you need me, I’ll be getting a little tune-up from Massage Envy before we start phase two of this crazy moving process…
