One Step Closer

Well our house is officially on the market. It’s all pretty and clean and staged, just sitting there waiting for someone to see it and fall in love with it. Or for someone who’s desperate and in a hurry, quite frankly I don’t really care which. In any case it looks amazing if I do say so. I am actually extremely proud of us, everything came together so well and the result was something that looks so good it actually surprised me, and our realtor. The listing price he gave us was not what I expected but I was definitely pleasantly surprised. If we get anywhere even close to that I just may have to defecate a bullion mass. I imagine one could find the listing online if they looked hard enough. Although I should mention that I’m not particularly happy with the pictures they used. But it is very hard to get the right angles when taking pictures of a smallish house.

I am really experiencing a combination of slightly numb emotions with this whole thing. The first day we moved into our new house I went back and forth between feeling super excited about our new (huge!) project and thinking that we had made a (huge!) mistake. It’s been the same wave since, sometimes I’ll look at something in the new place and think, man, that’s going to look so awesome when we paint it/replace it etc. And other times I look at something else and think, man, I really miss the old place; it was so much cleaner/prettier etc. So it’s really been up and down for me. I think once all our stuff from the old place is in the new one (it’s still there for staging) it will feel more like home but until then it kinda feels like we’re squatting in some random, dirty and ugly house. And when the day comes where I walk through the door and smell ‘our smell’ instead of the gross ‘heavy smokers apartment smell’ that still lingers it will also seem more ‘ours’. And something tells me that won’t happen for a while.

Our realtor just called, they’re showing the house at 5 today. If we see an offer in the first week I think I just may pee my pants in excitement.