Our house is officially on the market!
We spent last weekend fixing up some final projects, most of which fell on Jamie because my DIY skills are nil. I did attempt to paint the front gate of our fence, a 20-minute job that took me two hours because cutting around the hinges is pretty much my worst nightmare. Hadley has recently taken up acrylic painting and loves spending hours on the minute details; maybe I should have passed it off to her!
My busyness will come Friday when it comes to deep cleaning the house to prep for the showings this weekend.
Last week when I was picking the kids up from the bus stop, I noticed a For Sale sign on the next street over. I walked up to investigate and our exact same model of house with our exact colors was up for sale. What are the odds?!
I freaked out, raced back to Jamie and reported my findings. We certainly did not want to compete with our exact same house that is comparable in every way except they added an extra (fifth) bedroom upstairs and an extra bathroom in the basement. The good news is they were asking $10,000 more than our very top dollar price and we heard they accepted an offer for $5,000 above that.
This prompted Jamie to up our price a bit higher, causing me to have major panic attacks. You see, with this crazy Denver market, if a house sits too long (more than a couple of weeks), you’ve missed your window and people start wondering what is wrong with the place. I’d rather have a bunch of people bidding it up than over-pricing and hearing nothing.
He keeps telling me to be patient, which is like telling Gandi to start World War III.
Here are a few of my other joys.
- I haven’t slept more than a few hours all week (see above stresses).
- The $#&* MLS published a disconnected number to our listing. Thankfully, Jamie caught it fairly early on but it took them 16 hours to correct it.
- The cleaning crew that was supposed to arrive today canceled. The only reason we found out is when Jamie called them to confirm they casually mentioned their cleaning gal had called in sick. Welcome to the world of purchasing a Groupon. He raised a fuss about it and they rescheduled for Friday afternoon when we were planning to start showings. And wouldn’t you know it, the one call we received wanted to come at that exact time and they haven’t called back. I’ve since been cleaning like a madwoman bracing myself for the likelihood they won’t show tomorrow.
- The weather is insanely bad and is supposed to snow for four days. Good thing we bought a bunch of flowers that are waiting to be planted.
Takeaway? I guess that means our house is officially on the market.
I'm a Canadian-born mom of two, former Denver Post columnist, family travel writer, editor of MileHighMamas.com and 9News contributor. Expert on all things Utah, Denver, family and travel. Lover of laughter and life. Happily married to a man obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin. 