The Lucky Number Five

Moving has been on my mind for many years since living out here.  I've never really felt like this was the right town for us but felt very torn with moving our family out of a comfortable place.  Josh has really never had an issue with living here, and the boys don't know any difference.  But the lack of civilization and convenience has been challenging for me especially with Josh's schedule.

The first time we put our house on the market (Sept 2010-June 2011), we had five showings.  Five.  That's it.  It was discouraging but the timing was obviously not right.  We started Tyler in school and took the house off the market.  This past February, we interviewed realtors and went with a much more aggressive pricing scheme.  This time five was our lucky number and resulted in an offer.  In less than three months, we are now under contract.  They offered asking price, but we had just lowered it another $5,000 a few days prior.  So, it was a great price.  It honestly feels a little too good to be true.

Are we losing money on our house?  Yep.  We sure are, and it sucks.  But it's the housing market.  We are currently set to close at the end of June which is perfect for Tyler to finish school.  However, it just doesn't feel real yet.  Maybe after the home inspection Tuesday, it will help me feel more confident?

I took off work yesterday, and Josh and I went to see three houses and tour a preschool.  Preschool was fairly easy, and we found a good place we are comfortable with.  So, praise that this is figured out!  Finding a house is most likely going to be a waiting game because we know which neighborhoods we want but currently there are no houses that fit our budget.  For me, this will be another lesson of patience because when it comes to things like this, I want it done yesterday.  I've been so patient with the selling of the house that now I feel like I just want to move now.  But, if we learned anything from our first house it's that location is key, and we really want to find a house that we will be in for the long haul.

I'm just hoping and praying that things work out in a realistic time frame.  If we rent until we find a house, then so be it.  I'm just SO thankful that we have the hard part hopefully behind us!