New HOUSE!

Well, things are moving quickly now!  Thursday I found a house on mls.ca that I showed to Heather & Grant - both liked it.  Also found another in Cinnabar that seemed good.  Friday morning when I called Carol I found out the Cinnabar one had sold already - wow, that was fast! So yesterday Grant took some time from work and met me at McDonald's at Rutherford and we drove together to the house, which is just off of Uplands on Hillview Avenue.  First time in for both of us - generally Grant was more impressed than I was, but overall I was pleased with it.  Once we got home I started rethinking everything - like where is everything going to go?  Anyhow, we scheduled another viewing of the house for 9:30 this morning so Heather could be with us.  We also had our Japanese student with us.  We looked at everything very, very carefully, inside and out, then looked AGAIN to make sure we didn't miss anything.  We know what we want to change immediately, and what we want to work on gradually.  The plan is to have Heather in the single attached garage, which we will turn into her bedroom while she is still with us - then when she moves out we will open it up to the living room and make a large living/sitting room.  We know it needs colour, and I want the cupboards changed from grey to dark brown until we can redo the kitchen - to hickory.  And we also - mostly Heather - just came up with the idea of opening up the den to the bottom of the stairs.

Anyhow - we offered on the house this afternoon while we were still in the house, Carol emailed us the offer, we signed it and faxed it back to her.  A few minutes ago she phoned with the sellers verbal counter offer - which we just countered.  We will see where we end up, but it looks pretty obvious that we will be moving in there on September 17th, and officially out of here on the following Saturday, September 24th.

Will keep 'posted'!

HOUSE SOLD!

Well - we are no longer in 'House for Sale LIMBO'!  Last Monday, July 19th, we sold our house - relatively quickly, actually. Our realtor came over about 6:30pm or so, presented the offer, we countered, they countered - we accepted!  It was over by about 9pm!  It is conditional til August 5th for them to get House Inspection, Septic check, water check, and a 1st Mortgage (which they are already approved for) - I'm not expecting any problems, but we know it is not 99% until all the conditions are off.  This coming week I will need to make sure I am home when the Home Inspector comes...

House for sale - posting from early July:

HOME FOR SALE - Cedar/Yellowpoint area 2+ acres and large family home!


We've been for sale on MLS since late April - sure hope it sells soon! Check out our online listing at http://www.mls.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9459027



I'm wondering what more we can do to get our great house noticed? Should we contemplate putting up 'Vancouver Island HOUSE FOR SALE' signs someplace?



It is really not much fun being 'in limbo' which is what being FOR SALE definitely feels like!