First Plans Lived Out

I have thought about making this blog for quite some time now. I want to share with others my experiences in buying and selling of my first home. I enter this situation in a slightly strange situation, although I am sure that many other women have been through something similar. I married my wonderful husband almost 2 years ago and when we got married he already owned the house we currently live in. He bought it about 5 years prior to us getting married, in fact, a year before we even met.


We started discussing our plans for our future about a year ago. M. was trying to move up in his career and we realized that it might mean moving. Unfortunately it was not his time to move up the corporate ladder just yet but it really made us get our priorities in order.

In addition we had other reasons for wanting to make a move to be closer to our family and friends. Although, I really like our current house it is over an hour from almost all our friends and family. This makes for really lonesome living. Even our jobs are not that close. We commute about 35-50 minutes one way to our jobs. Luckily M. and I work close together so we are able to car pool. With the rising cost of gas prices that is a good thing. Being closer to our family and friends means being able to hang out with friends that we miss more often and seeing our family more often. It might also mean having a few helping hands wehn we might need them with children in the future.

Anyway, back to my thoughts on moving. After careful planing and some repairs we put our house on the market in March of this year. Unfortuately, our house is on the low end of the market so we were not able to update the house in an extreme way and expect to make the money back in the current market. We did a few repairs and painted both bathrooms and most of the trim work in the house. We also had a roof leak fixed and the sheetrock below it repaired. The biggest change that we made was to install a deck in the back yard. It is not a large deck but is covering what used to be a pond that we took out about a year ago.

So we are on the market. Since this post is a little late in coming I will mention that at this point the house has been on the market for 4 months now. In fact it is exactly 4 months today! Not what we would have thought when we started this process a while ago. I will talk about our adventures in looking for a new house to buy in another post. For now this post has come to an end. More to come...