Part 1 - The Reno
Part 2 - The Listing

Part 3 - The Offer

Now that we have been through the physical labor of getting the place ready for sale. The emotional toil of waiting and praying that a good offer will come, its now time to see what we got. So as i mentioned in earlier posts we wanted to try our house on the open market for a few days with delayed offer presentation. After many showings 2 days of a busy open house it was now offer day and offer time. But wait, did we even get anything...

Earlier in the day i called and touched base with every agent who came through the property, to see if their clients had any interest in the property. Most said they loved the property and would consider offering, but did not want to compete. In all honesty I was a little surprised by this. So after a few phone calls to my wife letting her know that she better not get to excited about multiple offers, a few prayers it was offer time.

The phone rings and lowe and behold, an agent...with an offer... Praise God! The one and only offer we received. In our prayers we kept saying we only need one, we only need one, but we wanted it to be the right one. So i picked Theresa up from work,, at this point she was sure we did not get an offer. When she got into the car with exuberance in my voice I said " We got one!!!" She then was also quite excited. So off to the office we went to review it. We need to wait for a half and hour until it was officially offer time, and once 6:30 rolled around we tore into that envelop and away we went.

We were initially pleased with the offer we got, it was for $370,000 and had no conditions. It did have a smalled deposit than we liked considering it was a delayed possession until the end of June. So I called the other agent Ol' Bubbly Bear and we re negotiated a bigger deposit.

Now if you have been following along you are probably thinking wow, they got $30,000 over asking price. That is true however the numbers told me the house was worth anywhere from $350 - 370K. So in actuality we got very close to what it was worth. Again this made us quite happy. The weird thing is that we are now living in someone else's home, theoretically. I guess the good thing is that if there is a small problem, its no big deal because its no longer mine. Other than cleaning and general upkeep, we don't plan on doing another thing to the house, we feel we have done enough.

We are now well on our way to building our new house and couldn't be more pleased with our agent ;) and all the hard work he put into our house.

 Thanks for following along, it was an emotional time in our lives, but you know its funny once we got that offer and no conditions and the sold sign was up, things just seemed to go back to normal.

 Please feel free to drop me a line anytime. I am always available for you.

 

Thanks,
Scott ZIegler
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