In case you missed me cartwheeling around Twitter and Facebook earlier today, we've finally sold our house. Lest I lose my status as a supreme procrastinator, we close on the new house on Tuesday, so yes, we managed to sell our house with 2 days to spare. I know technically our close is way off, but it's just different buying the next house and ( Read more... )

It appears I've been neglecting LJ. Turns out I have a pretty good reason. (No not *that* reason - that would be FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC and the post would include sparklers and cartwheels)

But. After searching since October'09 we have finally bought a house! Well, I guess technically we have a completed agreement to purchase, the sale will be final ( Read more... )

During a Freecycle foray on Saturday I drove by the neighbourhood where the house we bid on happens to be located. The house is sold and the agents must be doing cartwheels. They have placed a sign out on the main drag with SOLD! on it. The house isn't on the main drag, it's actually a few streets in, but I guess it was the talk of the ( Read more... )

We haven't made a lot of headway on our house shopping. The house that we put the initial offer in on is still on the market. The other one we were interested in isn't on the market yet, and we're getting tired of waiting, so we still look around and head to open houses if we see something we like ( Read more... )

Not even close. I'm sure each party thinks the other is completely off their rocker, so done.

In a weird twist of timing, the agent that's looking after the house that started all this, the run-down one down the street from us, contacted us yesterday to let us know they were >< that close to being ready to get it on the market, so we took a peek ( Read more... )

Hubby and I have been in our current house for 13 years this month. We like the house, we own the house, but in no way is it our dream house(s). We'd need two, hubby's dream house wouldn't resemble my dream house in the slightest...But I digress. We like the neighborhood, we like being in the near burbs, but this house just isn't cutting it. And it ( Read more... )