SOLD!!

I mentioned in the last post that we were putting our house up for sale. I should of said, houses! We put our rental up for sale in Lethbridge and our house here in Magrath up for sale too. So our house in Lethbridge sold within 2 days of putting it up. It was crazy how fast it went. Our realtor kept telling preparing us, incase we got some really low offers. Well that didn't happen. We had 2 people putting offers in close to the same time. The first offer was $2500 below offering price. We were really happy with that. The 2nd offer was asking price. Then the realtor had to let the first guy know that there was a competing offer. So he came back with an offer of $2500 over offering price. So we signed papers and it will be final next Thursday. Crazy! We were feeling so blest with the sale of that house. A little sad too! This was our first house we bought together. We bought it a year into our marriage. It has been a great house. The kids were a little sad about it too!

We weren't expecting our Magrath house to move really fast. There are so many people here with their houses up for sale. Two neighbours have their houses up for sale too. That's why we decided to put it up so soon. We have friends (a few of them), that have had their houses up for sale for over a year now. We were having a hard time with putting a price on our house. I found our realtors weren't too helpful in that area....at all. We had our other realtor (who sold our house in Lethbridge) give us some advise. We really appreciated that. We thought about the price for about a week. We came up with a price and felt good about it. We told our realtors and they told us not to expect it to sell fast. We felt like it was a really fair price, not over priced.

I've been decluttering and packing up stuff that we aren't using right now. Just to make it so much easier to keep clean. We had a showing one Saturday but that couple wasn't interested. Then we had another one the next Thursday. I hurried and cleaned that morning and had to be gone by 10am. I left with Cadence (she was sick) and we drove around town. We got some errands done. We came back and noticed they were still there. So we went and visited the Orr's!

Anyways, the couple liked it and put in an offer. It's actually someone from our ward. We know them. They came in $900 below asking price. I was stunned and so was Richard. We looked at each other in shock. The sellers are planning on finishing fixing up the house and landscape and flipping it. They told us before they put a offer in. So the only condition was for us to sell it as is. We still needed to do the backsplash and finish the island, but now we won't. This is what they do. They are builders and he does everything himself. We took their offer. So now we have to be out by June 1st! Crazy!!

So sad, here's our house in Magrath!

So now I need to keep packing and dejunking. Our plan is to stay in our trailer for the summer. Then we will see where we are at with the house at that point. We are hoping to start digging in the next couple of weeks. So exciting. It's really happening. We feel like we've been really blessed and this is what we are suppose to be doing. It's always been our plan to build on the Spencer farm land. It's just taken us a lot longer then we thought. But it's going to happen! Yeah! The kids are super excited and so are we!

So that's our exciting news!