The 12 or 50 Steps to Selling Our House
Each step can be done in one day (or one week):
1)Decide on a sale price.
2) Change your mind on the sale price.
3) Mull over a sale price range.
4) Recognize that we have a ton of little ‘extras’ we can pack first.
5) Locate all of the holes and broken things that are everywhere and agree that the walls could use a wash and feel quietly alarmed that we have been living like this for years.
6) Make a ‘fix-it’ list.
7) Firmly decide that we will fix nothing.
8) Box up those little extras & haul them to the storage unit, because we have one.
9) Recover.
10) Purchase a yard sign.
11) Let husband chicken scrawl the info onto the sign (agree that I’d “take too long”); make him add his phone # instead of mine. Place the sign in the garage next to the freezer.
12) Clean & clear the main bathroom for pics.
13) Take pics of the main bathroom.
14) Clean & clear the kitchen & living area. Take pics before it becomes a mess again.
15) Start Zillow account with pertinent information, less the pics.
16) Edit Zillow account’s pertinent information, plus remember: “We need a pic of the outside of the house.” and, “What price are we listing it at?”
17) Spot yard sign still in the garage but moved and notice husband erased (sorta) the sale price, replacing it with one he decided on without talking about it further and it has an EVEN number. Place yard sign against freezer again.
18) Hear husband speaking, but don’t understand the statement: “It’ll take us about a full week to clear out.” (has he gone insane?) Walk past him and try shutting the door between us.
19) Recognize that the house shows exceptionally well in pictures, until zooming in. “How do we write that we got tired?”
20) Remind each other that we only have 2 months left.
21) Neatly arrange finances, in the mind and without basis, to keep both mortgages just to “give us more time”.
The sharing below was written at the beginning. It's important to note that it's been an entire year plus several months. There has been great progress, with acquiring a place to go after we sell the house. Its just the selling the house part… still…
We are busy, definitely busy. And tired.
And definitely weird.
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