Hopefully I won’t jinx it, but we are a few days away from selling our house in MA.
Documents have been drawn, papers have been signed, and a closing has been scheduled. We were fortunate that (after an offer was accepted) we didn’t have to wait three months for a closing and there was no contingency on the buyers’ house selling. It has been a fairly quick turnaround… well, relative to the offer anyway.
Shit I’m happy.
If I can get rid of my mild cold, I might be drinking heavily soon to celebrate the removal of this 2000 square foot monkey off our backs.
Still. Despite the fact that it took over a year and a half to sell, I will miss the house. The kids spent two out of their three years in that house, and we have about 500 billion pictures to prove it. Even though I knew we would not be back to see it, the reality of this has made me a little sad.
Goodbye, kitchen where I spent much of my time — mostly on the floor picking up raisins and Cheerios.
However, on to other things. Hopefully, eventually, our next home.
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The buyers’ lawyer has been shady in his dealings, at best. He has tried to put things past us or our lawyer and then lied to cover his ass; e.g. he told our lawyer that we had agreed to a clause that we never had. In fact, we had never even discussed anything about it.
I don’t understand how people can lie so blatantly. It’s a little psychotic. Do they truly believe their own lies, or do they do it because no one ever calls them on their bullshit?
Luckily, our lawyer is f’ing awesome. This is our fourth closing with him, and he kicks ass. He also charges a one-time fee, as opposed to an hourly fee. Somehow we manage to attract buyers with overzealous lawyers who constantly cause him more work (I suspect so they can charge their own clients for more hours) — and still he charges us one set fee. If anyone is looking for a kickass real estate lawyer in the greater Boston area (he’s based in Southie), email me and I’ll be happy to send him more clients. Great guy, great lawyer. I wish he could work with us in Chicago.
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Congratulations on selling the house. I know when it’s finalized, it will be a huge relief for you. Hope everything goes smoothly.
YAY!!! Keeping my fingers crossed!!! Phew…
Mazel Tov! Big Mazel Tov to you.
Awesome news - hurray! And if that was your old kitchen, wow… dunno if I could have left that!
Yay! What a relief that will be for you.
I sure wish we’d had time to connect before you moved away from here. Boston’s loss, Chicago’s gain.
As someone who’s been through similar house selling woes (mine was on the market for 7 months, with another 3 for closing with shady buyers) I can totally relate to the relief you must be feeling. I’m keeping my fingers and toes, shoe laces and scrunchies all crossed for you. Good luck!
SO SO HAPPY FOR YOU ! YAY!!!
CELEBRATE as much as you want…….. and we know you both DESERVE it TOO!
That. is a huge kitchen.
WOW. It’s bigger than my entire apartment. Congratulations fingers crossed no jinx don’t buy me a coke.
Congrats! I hope you can find a house you like to buy easily and quickly
i’m so glad your house is going to sell, but that is a pretty nice looking kitchen… almost catalog-like.
Thanks for the crossed fingers everyone!
Kim: Yes, the kitchen was tough to leave. I keep telling myself someday again, hopefully…
Superha: Believe me, the kitchen never looked like that except that day, when I tried to stage it for our listing pictures. Most of the time it had scooters in the middle of it and crap all over the counters.
Wow, what a kitchen. If I had the $ to be in the market, I would surely have bought that house.
When our kids were small, we lived in a house that was infested with sow bugs, mice, cockroaches, crickets, and mosquitoes. We once had a Norway rat in our toaster oven, and snakes had access to the toilet via a floor vent. After we moved back to the U.K., ex-neighbors came to visit us and told us that the house had been torn down. I burst into tears. I felt like I’d lost a link to my children’s babyhood. As I had…
Congratulations!
We toyed with the idea of moving a little while ago and the thought of packing up a kid and two dogs AND having the house in “showing” condition made me want to puke.
And that was before the pregnancy.
Good for you for getting it (allllmost) done! More power to you for doing it with two.
Care to share some super powers?