House plans

Well, we're still in the process of trying to get our house ready to sell. We will finally be getting our carpet in on Monday! YAY! :) We're so excited to be almost done with all the work to get it ready to sell! It's looking good, too!

We found a house we loved, and we were prepared to make an offer once our house sold, but I found out that someone else beat us to it. It was SUCH a nice house. It had everything we've been looking for. We were really disappointed to see that it now has a contract.

There's another house with the same layout that is on the market. We're now looking at possibly making an offer on that one. It's exactly the same house, but it doesn't have some of the features that we really liked in the first house. It's in a more sought-after neighborhood, so we still think that it would be a good investment. It's 11 years old. It's a 2 story with 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. it has a nice level, fenced yard. The kitchen/breakfast room has hardwood floors. It's a little higher priced, but it can't hurt to make an offer so I think we'll probably do that and see if they'll accept it or at least negotiate. Oh well, we'll see...

We've done so much to our house. All the rooms are freshly painted. Both bathrooms have been remodeled, we're installing carpet in the living room, hall, and steps on monday. Matt's putting laminate (pergo-like) floor in the foyer tomorrow. We had the carpets cleaned. I've boxed up like 10 boxes of stuff (toys, dvds, cds, etc). I've done major cleaning and de-cluttering. It amazed me how much stuff we held on to. Mostly little things that we really didn't need. I threw away a ton of stuff. I've also done major selling on Craigslist.

So, as soon as the carpet is in, we'll try selling our house FSBO. If we don't get any bites, we'll have Matt's mom list it for us. Wish us luck! :)