House is For Sale by Owner

Wow, it's finally happening!  This seems a long time in coming.  We listed it about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night. Have had 3 inquiries and one person requesting a showing for next week.  I think the other person really wanted to look at it but his realtor wouldn't let him because we refused to sign a contract with him giving him 3.5% commission. 

The realtor didn't even find us or first contact us, the interested buyer did!  He said he had signed a contract with a realtor and would we talk to him.  We said yes, of course.  First thing out of the realtor's mouth was  I need an agreement for 3.5% or I won't let my buyer see your house.  He wouldn't even negotiate!!!  Forget that!!!!  And he said HUD required that we pay him a commission.  Yeah?  Really?  I don't think so.

If we wanted to sell for 3.5% commission we would have listed with a realtor to begin with!!!  It's too bad because the buyer said he needed to buy a house in a week.  I told him no problem we could be out in a couple days because we are mostly packed and moved out already!  Oh well, his choice. 

19 work days to retirement!!!!!  We are getting so excited. 

We plan to get the Airstream out of storage, get it cleaned and ready to go this next week.  We are looking forward to our new adventures. 

Stay tuned friends and family and check here because I'll keep you updated on all the happenings with us. 

Beautiful day today, hope you all enjoy it!!

Hugs!

April check in

Hello everyone, it's April here in Iowa and the weather isn't the most desirable yet, but with the rain we have had lately the farmers should be happy as it is more rain than last year.  That's a good thing.

We have a majority of the house packed and in storage and hopefully by next week we should have it listed.  If we are fortunate to sell quickly, we could move out in a matter of days.  The whole house has been freshly painted and the garage.  The carpets were professionally cleaned also.  Having the house dismantled for three weeks sure made us appreciate it when we got it put back together. This also motivated us to get even more items packed up.   When I get our ad for the house up and running, I'll add a link here.

Dave checked the Airstream at the storage unit and said it appears to have wintered well.  We are looking forward to getting it cleaned out and de-winterized.  

We have 24 working days left before retirement, yeah!!!!  I know the time will go really fast.   We are in the process of planning our first retirement trip to celebrate.  If things go as planned we will be leaving for Santa Fe for the 4 Corners Unit rally.  So check in frequently as I'll probably have daily updates of our travel adventures.  KT & Nacho will be sure to check in with their point of view.  :)

Here's a few pictures of the house.

Living room from front hallway

Corner fireplace

 

 

Eating area in kitchen and doors to back yard

 

 

 Formal Dining Room

 

 

Guest bathroom

hallway to bedrooms and front door

 

back bedroom

 

 



I need to get some more pictures of the other bedrooms, the kitchen and the family room, bedrooms downstairs and the downstairs bath.