I know it has been a long time since my last post, so why not start with this bit of news.
But before I get to the news, I just wanted to say that this social internet thing is really starting to suck. I find I just can’t keep up with all the new social services out there. Don’t get me wrong, I think that a variety of web sites are good; however it would be nice to have one place to go to see all my friends online. I have Twitter, Facebook, MSN Live, LinkedIn, Blogs (4 of them … LJ, MSN Spaces, Google Blogger and WordPress). Right now I’m using FaceBook a lot, and sometime Twitter (but eventual I will drop it; it’s a fad). Blogging is becoming a chore, but I sometime get the itch say something (Like now) . Anyways I’m going to try and Blog more, from now on, and see how that goes. Apple is coming out with their 3.0 update to the iPhone, and I have downloaded an App that will let me post to all my Blogs, so that should help. Anyways… let me get to my news…
Last year, we started to thinking about moving back into the city, so we started to look at some houses, around the March time frame. Our neighbors were also looking to move, and even came over to our home to see if they wanted to buy it. Well they did find a home, sold their house sometime in May (for over asking). We were still looking, and could not find anything. By the end of June the housing market started to drop, and there was just crap on the market. We were hoping to sell our house for $530k in the spring, but the housing market was slowly dropping by the end of Summer we were thinking that we could get maybe $480k (if we were lucky). Then we found out that another neighbor was trying to sell their home, it was bigger, had better and more upgrades then ours, and back onto a park, and they could only get $460k . Things were bad. Then the economy; well we all know about the economy, I don’t have to go into that. However we were still looking for a home. We thought that all homes are going down so it did not matter that we could not get much for our home.
Well last week our agent found a home that was put on MLS that morning, we ran to see it a lunch time and put in an offer, that afternoon (we did not want anyone else to see the home, because the market was starting to pickup), they accepted. Now we had to sell our house, so we spent the weekend cleaning, and this Monday afternoon we put our home on MLS. 4pm that same day I got a call; someone wanted to view the home. So I had to rush home, and take our Dog over to my parents’ house (I did not think we would get a viewing request so fast). The Next day, I was getting calls all day for viewing, and we could not go home until after 10pm. The next day our agent said that he will stop all viewing after 8pm (by then we had two offers on the house). At the end of the day we had 8 offers, and buy 12am we had sold our home, above asking; more then what we thought we get last year. WOW, it all happened in less then a week (I think the Market is starting to pickup).
