Selling and Moving

US Journal

September 22, 2013

Closed and Moved

Wow! Selling a house and moving is a fascinating experience!

First, we listed our house with the same realtor who sold it to me 17 years ago! Cathy sold 4 houses on that same day, and 3 of us were buying each other’s houses. We even shared moving vans after the closing!

Cathy’s great, and she knows this area very well. She was on vacation the first week we had it listed, but it didn’t seem to matter much. Her associate walked us through the listing process, and by the time Cathy returned home 4 days later, we had a contract! Sounded too good to be true? It was! Two weeks later the deal fell through…financing didn’t go through for the buyer, but 4 days after that we had another contract. This one has proceeded smoothly, and Friday was the closing. Today, the movers came at 7AM, and were finished at 11! They had told us it would be 1pm, so we were very pleased.

Now, I’m sitting on the empty dining room floor in the empty house I sold, waiting for Plumber 911 to show up! Eek! When the last item…the refrigerator…was being disconnected, the T Valve (Don’t ask me!) was stripped, and we couldn’t turn off the water to the refrigerator. This means that the hose is disconnected, but the water is still on. The movers jury rigged the hose finally, and it is keeping the water flow down to a minimum. Jason is on his way to our house from Plumber 911 in an hour.

I just talked to the new owner, and she is very pleased that she can go ahead and move some things in early. She’s also pleased that we have arranged to have the plumbing problem fixed before her refrigerator arrives, although we were told it would be no problem at all if they attached a new refrigerator…the problem lies in  not having anything to attach to the hose.

So, after this slight hitch is rectified, we are headed on an adventure that we hope ends in another move… to the townhouse that we chose in Decatur...Oct. 15ish! In the meantime, we will camp out in Peter’s condo for 10 days with our blow up mattresses until his condo contract closes there on September 30. Everything else is in storage. Then, we are hoping to only have 2-3 weeks before the Decatur contract is closed, and we have invitations from lovely friends to camp out at their houses a few days at a time. Sounds like a vacation to me!

We feel blessed to have things going as smoothly as they are. More news and some pictures to come!

Colleen