O.S.O.K.
06-17-2011, 02:36 PM
now and move into a rental (plenty of those available in our area) instead of waiting until next spring to sell the house.
This is kind of an unexpected turn for us.
The wife and I were watching the news last Friday evening - and through the weekend - all kinds of information on just how fucked up everything is.
We got to thinking about it and decided on this course of action. We figure this will allow us to gain access to our equity now so that we can begin immediately on the construction of our new home on the land that we just bought.
We thought this all through and can see no down side to it.
I am blessed to have married a very level headed and flexible woman (no jokes). :)
Neither of us want to screw with this right now but we've started doing all of the needed things. We're touching up the little things that need it - put some of the furniture into the garage, took down pictures and stuff to clean-up the walls, etc. - all of the stuff you see on the home shows (my wife is an expert "stager") - we've sold a lot of houses and know what to do.
We have flyers made up and a professional "for sale by owner" sign made up for the front yard. We stipulate that anyone wanting to look at the house must be "prequalified" by a bank for a loan. That keeps the rif-raf and nosy rosies from bothering us.
There are some other houses for sale on our street and there's a steady flow of people looking at them, so we'll just tap into that :firedevil:
We already know who will do the closing and will use standard contracts.
I now need to address my shop - need to pack the guns and ammo up and make the shop look like a generic home-shop...
The games we have to play...
This is kind of an unexpected turn for us.
The wife and I were watching the news last Friday evening - and through the weekend - all kinds of information on just how fucked up everything is.
We got to thinking about it and decided on this course of action. We figure this will allow us to gain access to our equity now so that we can begin immediately on the construction of our new home on the land that we just bought.
We thought this all through and can see no down side to it.
I am blessed to have married a very level headed and flexible woman (no jokes). :)
Neither of us want to screw with this right now but we've started doing all of the needed things. We're touching up the little things that need it - put some of the furniture into the garage, took down pictures and stuff to clean-up the walls, etc. - all of the stuff you see on the home shows (my wife is an expert "stager") - we've sold a lot of houses and know what to do.
We have flyers made up and a professional "for sale by owner" sign made up for the front yard. We stipulate that anyone wanting to look at the house must be "prequalified" by a bank for a loan. That keeps the rif-raf and nosy rosies from bothering us.
There are some other houses for sale on our street and there's a steady flow of people looking at them, so we'll just tap into that :firedevil:
We already know who will do the closing and will use standard contracts.
I now need to address my shop - need to pack the guns and ammo up and make the shop look like a generic home-shop...
The games we have to play...