{"id":6980,"date":"2018-06-05T08:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6980"},"modified":"2024-08-31T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:18:31","slug":"that-real-estate-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2018\/06\/05\/that-real-estate-life\/","title":{"rendered":"That Real Estate Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first week of summer was exhausting. Not because we did a bunch of fun stuff. Rather because it was spent putting two houses onto the market.<\/p>\n

Our main home went on the market last Tuesday, although the sign didn\u2019t go into the yard until Wednesday. So there was a seemingly endless list of cleaning and straightening and other tiny projects to make the house gleam as much as it can. And then the constant checking of things to make sure if we got a call about a showing we could get out of the way quickly and still have everything in order. The girls did a pretty good job with it all, although they are already beginning to chafe a bit under the restrictions we\u2019ve put on them to keep the house in decent shape.<\/p>\n

Then Saturday we went down to the lake house to get it ready for our realtor to come take pictures and put her signs up. That house officially went on the market this morning.<\/p>\n

All this is new to us, as we\u2019ve only bought houses before, never sold before.[1]<\/a> As I said up top, it is exhausting. Especially with kids home from school who want nothing more than to relax and make messes and not have to worry about them for a week or two.<\/p>\n

All that physical stuff wears you down enough, and then there\u2019s the mental side. The waiting for notifications that a showing is scheduled. Each time I get a text message there\u2019s the hope it is from the booking agency. It could be a text with totally awesome news from a friend or relative, but I still feel a little let down if it isn\u2019t a showing notification. Little things catch your eye as you walk through the house, \u201cMan, we really should have had that fixed. Who\u2019s going to buy a house that has that?!?!\u201d The girls are clearly having some issues, too, which weighs on us. There have been emotions and some acting out which we are assuming come from the stress and uncertainty they\u2019re feeling. Oh, and I\u2019ve not been the best dad, snapping at them for little things.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t meant to be some \u201cWoe Are Us\u201d post. We are lucky that we are selling our homes because of decisions we made, not because we have to sell them. We knew what we were getting into and could have adjusted our timing if we wanted to. But now seemed like the right time to jump all the way in. I think that will prove to be true in retrospect once we get through everything. But, man, this first week was tiresome.<\/p>\n

Now that all the prep work is done, and the first week of being on the market is out of the way, I do hope I can relax a little. We had hoped for more attention on our house in week one. As I mentioned, we have neighbors who had two offers on the first day they listed their home, and our entire area is lacking in inventory. Those unrealistic comparisons\/expectations weighed us down, too. Sunday we told ourselves, \u201cWe have a great house, in a great location. Someone is going to want it.\u201d Selling a home in a month is awesome, and there\u2019s still plenty of time to do that. It\u2019s going to happen, just on a more normal schedule that our neighbors.<\/p>\n

Oh, the girls and I did go pick strawberries one day last week. Which was a lot of fun until someone – no one claimed responsibility – decided to wash all four pounds at once and then put them back into the fridge. We had to freeze them before they turned into a mushy, mess, which was kind of sad. We will have good smoothies for weeks, though!<\/p>\n

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  1. \nAnd, of course, there are all kinds of other stresses associated with buying our new home we\u2019re also dealing with. For example, spending roughly an hour just trying to get a mortgage statement from our current lender, who seem to operate on systems that were built in the 1970s.  ↩<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The first week of summer was exhausting. Not because we did a bunch of fun stuff. Rather because it was spent putting two houses onto the market. Our main home went on the market last Tuesday, although the sign didn\u2019t go into the yard until Wednesday. So there was a seemingly endless list of cleaning and straightening and other tiny projects to make the house gleam as much as it can. And then the constant checking of things to make sure if we got a call about a showing we could get out of the way quickly and still have everything in order. The girls did a pretty good job with it all, although they are already beginning to chafe a bit under the restrictions we\u2019ve put on them to keep the house in decent shape. Then Saturday we went down to the lake house to get it ready for our realtor to come take pictures and put her signs up. That house officially went on the market this morning. All this is new to us, as we\u2019ve only bought houses before, never sold before.[1] As I said up top, it is exhausting. Especially with kids home from school who want nothing more than to relax and make messes and not have to worry about them for a week or two. All that physical stuff wears you down enough, and then there\u2019s the mental side. The waiting for notifications that a showing is scheduled. Each time I get a text message there\u2019s the hope it is from the booking agency. It could be a text with totally awesome news from a friend or relative, but I still feel a little let down if it isn\u2019t a showing notification. Little things catch your eye as you walk through the house, \u201cMan, we really should have had that fixed. Who\u2019s going to buy a house that has that?!?!\u201d The girls are clearly having some issues, too, which weighs on us. There have been emotions and some acting out which we are assuming come from the stress and uncertainty they\u2019re feeling. Oh, and I\u2019ve not been the best dad, snapping at them for little things. This isn\u2019t meant to be some \u201cWoe Are Us\u201d post. We are lucky that we are selling our homes because of decisions we made, not because we have to sell them. We knew what we were getting into and could have adjusted our timing if we wanted to. But now seemed like the right time to jump all the way in. I think that will prove to be true in retrospect once we get through everything. But, man, this first week was tiresome. Now that all the prep work is done, and the first week of being on the market is out of the way, I do hope I can relax a little. We had hoped for more attention on our house in week one. As I mentioned, we have neighbors who had two offers on the first day they listed their home, and our entire area is lacking in inventory. Those unrealistic comparisons\/expectations weighed us down, too. Sunday we told ourselves, \u201cWe have a great house, in a great location. Someone is going to want it.\u201d Selling a home in a month is awesome, and there\u2019s still plenty of time to do that. It\u2019s going to happen, just on a more normal schedule that our neighbors. Oh, the girls and I did go pick strawberries one day last week. Which was a lot of fun until someone – no one claimed responsibility – decided to wash all four pounds at once and then put them back into the fridge. We had to freeze them before they turned into a mushy, mess, which was kind of sad. We will have good smoothies for weeks, though! And, of course, there are all kinds of other stresses associated with buying our new home we\u2019re also dealing with. For example, spending roughly an hour just trying to get a mortgage statement from our current lender, who seem to operate on systems that were built in the 1970s.  ↩<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,135,83],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-house","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13403,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions\/13403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}