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November 2011 Moms
RedCamaro
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House listed (finally)!
RedCamaro
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I'm so excited to finally have our house put on the market! It's been a long 8 months of improvements and budgeting since we first decided to do it. And the house looks great, if I do say so myself. Here's hoping for that "dream" buyer! 
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Re: House listed (finally)!
11.2011 - DS1
02.2013 - loss at 6 wks
06.2014 - DS2
10.2015 - loss at 12 wks
03.2017 - DD
BFP #2 03/08/11 EDD 11/16/11 DD Born on 11/04/11
BFP #3 08/29/12 EDD 05/06/13 M/C on 08/30/12
BFP #4 11/01/12 EDD 07/09/2013 M/C on 12/28/12
BFP #5 04/30/13 EDD 01/03/14 DS Born on 01/02/14
BFP #6 01/11/15 EDD 09/22/15 M/C 03/09/15
best of luck!
we are in Germany, and our house in Utah is under contract, hoping it will actually sell, it will be a huge weight off our shoulders!
DS born via unplanned C-section at 40w6d
Congratulations and good luck!!!! We just sold our house (well, still under contract - close in 2 weeks) and lucked out and totally had a dream sale (*knock on wood*....as I said, we still have to make it to closing!).
It is sort of funny all the sprucing up you do to a house to get it ready to go on the market. All the things you "deal with" when you live there but know you have to fix/finish before a sale. (We were living with some half painted walls for YEARS before we finished before putting it on the market last time! Ha!)
We tried to sell a couple years ago while pregnant with DD, had the house on the market for 3 months (as we concurrently looked for a house to buy for 3 months), but not a single offer on our house and we couldn't find a house we wanted to buy so we took it off the market because we didn't want to be looking/have our house for sale with a newborn.
The two biggest things we did different this time before we put it on the market and I think made a HUGE difference (besides getting a new realtor - our realtor last time was not a great guy): (1) we had it professionally cleaned. Best $300 I ever spent. With a toddler I would NEVER be able to do what they did. Not to mention, they made my stained sink and stove top shine like I never thought possible. (2) our realtor paid for a stager - a guy to come in a work with our own furniture to help accentuate the home. We moved a couple big pieces into the garage and decluttered, decluttered, decluttered (we packed up what seemed like half our house before it was even on the market!). He also suggested buying a few things to spruce up the place (table runners, plants, etc) that I spent probably less than $200. The house looked AWESOME. And I'm convinced that both of those things helped it sell the first weekend this time! (We were also selling during a slightly better market this time, I think.)
We move to our new house next weekend so now it is packing, packing, packing and I have had zero bump time lately. So it was funny that I snuck on for a break and saw your post!
Anyway....GOOD LUCK!!! Buying and selling is so stressful and so much work! Great job getting it on the market - that's half the battle! I was just a mess the week leading to getting ours on the market... I wish you a quick and easy sale! Multiple offers! Over asking price! Cash!
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