Selling Spyglass

What a whirlwind it has been selling our home. More crazy than I truly thought possible. 

We were in Galveston when we received an email from our builders saying our house was going to be done sooner than planned. It's time to get your house on the market. Our Realtor contacted us that Sunday and said get the house ready by Tuesday and Wednesday because we will list it the next weekend. So Dan and I did everything we needed to do to prep the house. Like finishing painting the house and literally scrubbing every piece of grout in our house. We got that house so freaking clean. Now no one was allowed to touch anything for a week! HA 

Our realtor came Tuesday for pictures and the house was listed that Thursday. And oh boy things got crazy! 

We had a half hour notice for showings and we literally  had a showing from 8:30am until 8:30pm. We lived in our car. Truly. It was so crazy and the poor kids. 

We ended up getting an offer within two hours of being listed. It was insane!

We played had lunch and played more at the park. Dan was checking in on more showings. 

Dan took the older two to a movie while Kate took her nap in the car. So while they were at the movie I went and stocked the Open House. It was really weird watching strangers go in and out of our house. 

We ended up with a showing starting at 8:30pm that night, so we went for a long drive and thankfully packed pajamas that we could change the kids into. 

The next morning, we had to be out of the house by 8:30am and again had showings all day. We took the kids to I-Hop for breakfast. 

June ordered mac and cheese and I loved it. I truly love that girl! 

We went to a friends birthday party and then again spent the rest of the day playing at different parks and running errands until we were able to go home. Thankfully we were able to go home at 8pm that night. 

By Sunday we had multiple offers on the house and we weren't as eager to have showings. So we declined any showings before 11am and before we went to church. Well one of those showings STILL SHOWED UP!!! They walked into our house while we were getting the kids ready for church. Thankfully Dan and I were ready so told them to give us a minute to finish packing up our stuff and get out the door. We finished getting ready for church in the back of our car. 

By Sunday evening we had multiple offers and we were ready to make our choice. We were really happy and excited to receive above asking price and now we are under contract. 

Dan went out of town for the week for work so I was dealing with it all. I admit at one point I literally just couldn't take it all and had a bit of a panic attack. It was a looooooong week. Including a new roof. 

We are now in the final stages of closing. We should be closing on the old house in the next week or so. There are things we are having to fix and deal with during inspection, but they are easy fixes and getting them done quick. Once we close we will be doing a lease back for the month of June. 

It's been long. We are so ready to move. Hopefully only 6 more weeks!