After two long years of having our house on the market, it finally sold. When we first put it on the market, it was hard to imagine it selling and us moving and living in a different house. But we had made the decision to change from the public schools to a private Christian school. With that comes tuition. To live in a house with a large mortgage AND pay tuition just wasn't going to work. We felt an education incorporating the values we were teaching at home was more important than living in our big house on the cul-de-sac in a dream neighborhood. As we thought about it and assessed our living situation, we weren't even really using half the space we had. Why continue to clean, maintain and pay for that? However our house didn't sell month after month and we started to wonder if selling was what we were supposed to do. But nothing else was changing to make the need to sell not there. After 16 months on the market we pulled it off to take a break and get through the holidays without having to have our house "show ready" in moments notice. Ok maybe that never happened, but I was just tired of either needing to clean the house when I didn't have time or wondering why no one was calling to see the house!
We regrouped, put the house back on the market in the spring thinking we would give it another 6 month try. I had faith God would bring the perfect buyer in that time frame. If it didn't sell, then that wasn't the plan He had for us. I was content with that, the apples were finally ok if it sold, but a few of them were holding out for us to stay put. The Hub, well he never wanted to sell in the first place, but he also didn't like paying the mortgage every month, so what else can you do? In the end we all were leaning towards our house not selling... and then one day it did!
Our buyers wanted to close in 30 days. We didn't have a home we wanted to move into. The few we had liked over the months our house was for sale had already sold. It felt like we had stepped onto a speed belt. We went from one day thinking we were probably staying put to having to be out of our house with no where to go in 30 days. We looked at everything on the market that fit our needs, but none was just right. I mean we felt since we are getting the chance to start again with our home buying, this time with our family complete and our needs known, we wanted to do it right. Why just buy to buy? So we checked out some apartments planned some travel for the summer and then realized the best thing to do was move in with the grandparents and keep looking for the perfect house. So packing began, a storage unit was rented, the move was made and our adventures having only just begun.
Our buyers wanted to close in 30 days. We didn't have a home we wanted to move into. The few we had liked over the months our house was for sale had already sold. It felt like we had stepped onto a speed belt. We went from one day thinking we were probably staying put to having to be out of our house with no where to go in 30 days. We looked at everything on the market that fit our needs, but none was just right. I mean we felt since we are getting the chance to start again with our home buying, this time with our family complete and our needs known, we wanted to do it right. Why just buy to buy? So we checked out some apartments planned some travel for the summer and then realized the best thing to do was move in with the grandparents and keep looking for the perfect house. So packing began, a storage unit was rented, the move was made and our adventures having only just begun.
