July 8th, 2009
Trying to keep the house showroom ready is a task. When I wake up in the morning I immediately make up the beds. I walk around the house and make sure every toy is in it’s basket, that there are no stray crumbs on the counter or floor and I dry all the water droplets out of the sinks. When the phone rings my heart speeds up a little. If the voice on the other line wants to schedule a showing I immediately go into a state of hurried frenzy.
I vacuum the floors, make sure everything is perfect and pack up the kids and the dog. When we’ve been gone long enough I breath a sigh of relief and I am so happy to come home.
It’s very satisfying that the house is clean. Everything is in it’s place and everything is done. At that point I am actually kind of bored. That is the one nice thing about all of this. Until the next phone call.
When we go to bed at night I lie there awake. I try and think about other things but my mind is anxious. I think about the houses we have looked at, I wonder how long ours will be on the market. I wonder what school Addie will start 3rd grade. Chances are she will start one place and have to change schools after we move.
I know people do this all the time but it’s our first experience with selling and buying at the same time. The timing has to be perfect. I don’t want to get too excited about any particular house until someone makes an offer on ours. So we will have to be patient and wait.
Oh and have I mentioned I am not very good at being patient and waiting?
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We did the whole “life changing move” 5 1/2 years ago. We had to move before our house sold. At one point we had two house payments and a rental payment. UGH. It taught me that I can, in fact, operate with one nerve left!!!
What a cute house. If I lived anywhere near you I would totally come take a look. LOL
Consider yourself very blessed you have HAD showings–our house has been on the market a month (in Nashville, too) with ZERO showings. Keeping the house clean just to have no showings is incredibly depressing.
The wait is hard. My DH has to move next month whether we’ve sold or not. I have to stay here.
my only advice is this………. we picked out our favorite house. We put in an offer, prayed over it, obsessed over it…..we sorely disappointed when our offer was not accepted with a contigency to sell our current house. Long story short….the house we have IS the house we were supposed to have. I love it tens times better than the one I thought was the perfect one!!
I also did not think people who gave me this same advice from their experience understood how wonderful this house was!!!! – until we found the house that we did get to buy!
At least, I gained better habits about keeping a house clean. I guess my “wait” was about learning to be a better house keeper!!
Where are you looking??
I don’t blame you…I’m sure you’re excited to move on!!
We moved last May. I was ready to hurt someone over those showings. I think one couple had a party in the house – 2 hour showing??? Crazy. I hated every minute of it but it did pay off.
Hang in there. The fact that you have showings is a good sign.
We had more than I care to think about. Somebody (me) decided to get two puppies a few months before we listed the house. Talk about work. Bad idea.
Some how it all seems to work itself out and a clean house sure beats a messy one.
Good luck to you! I hope you get your dream house!