Well I guess this is really happening! After a month of frantic painting, repairing, and cleaning, we signed the papers today to sell the house. We have purchased a Ford F350 dually to pull our Arctic Fox 32-5M. Our realtor thinks the house will sell quickly (fingers crossed). If so, we will stay in the 5er here in Colorado for a couple of months while we finish up at our current jobs, then hit the road! Woohoo! It's exciting and scary all at once. We are excited to meet many of you at the spring rally in TN (which by the way is where my grandchildren are, so added bonus ). We have been purging stuff for several months now so hopefully the move into the RV won't be too overwhelming. This forum has been incredibly helpful as we have been researching and learning and having so many questions, so I just want to thank all of you for your wonderful, caring personalities and willingness to answer everyone's questions (which have benefited us). I feel honored to be joining such an amazing group of people!
Jo
cherylbrv said
07:31 PM Jan 26, 2014
Congratulations and best of luck selling quickly! I hope to be in the "class of 2014" as well.
The Restless Youngs said
07:43 PM Jan 26, 2014
Congrats!! Best of luck with the sale!! Hopefully your house is SOLD by rally-time!! See you at the rally!!
DebbieM said
07:51 PM Jan 26, 2014
Sounds great! We should be right behind you. See you at the rally and I hope you have a quick, painfree sale!!
jrzygrl64 said
08:21 PM Jan 26, 2014
We want to list soon also, hopefully we will ALL have something to celebrate when we meet at the rally!
Keep us updated!
Camper Chronicles said
04:02 AM Jan 27, 2014
That's awesome!!! Look forward to meeting you at the rally
Dog Folks said
08:21 AM Jan 27, 2014
Welcome to freedom!!!
Alie and Jims Carrilite said
08:47 AM Jan 27, 2014
Here's hoping for a quick sale!
Jo and Ben said
08:50 AM Jan 27, 2014
Thanks everyone! It sure was strange to see that for sale sign outside our house. Hoping for a quick sale for all of us in this stage of the adventure :)
Jo
Lucky Mike said
08:59 AM Jan 27, 2014
ConGrats !!!!!!!
el Rojo and Pam said
11:17 AM Jan 27, 2014
Wishing lots of luck on a quick sale!
Red
Jo and Ben said
07:28 PM Jan 27, 2014
Wow, house listed first thing this morning and by this afternoon we had an appointment for a showing tomorrow!! This is crazy. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
el Rojo and Pam said
08:11 PM Jan 27, 2014
Keep us posted!
Lucky Mike said
08:16 PM Jan 27, 2014
Keep this up and Im gonna get blisters on my piggy toes!!!!!..........H a P p Y Dance!!!!!!
LibertyLinda said
06:06 PM Jan 28, 2014
Jo and Ben,
What an awesome step in your journey!
We are a month away from listing. We will hopefully meet in TN at the rally - I'd like to hear your thoughts on nursing while full-timing - I'm a RN with a psychology degree too, LOL.
Jo and Ben said
08:31 PM Jan 28, 2014
The waiting is stressful. We had one showing today but heard nothing about it. We have another showing tomorrow morning! Thanks for all the good wishes.
Linda, let's definitely meet up at the rally. I think we are in site #222. We have a little experience with doing travel nursing already and think it will be a great way to be full-timers! I'd be happy to talk with you anytime about it. Are you working in psych now?
Ok, taking deep breaths, will continue to post our updates :)
Jo
LibertyLinda said
09:20 PM Jan 28, 2014
I don't remember what site number we are - but we will meet up.
I am currently doing intensive case management with Medicare folks. I did psych nursing directly for about 15 or so years, then I went to Hospice and now case management. Anyway, I will love to talk.
In the meantime, I think you guys know that intense focusing on any and all look-see's on your house will only contribute to your anxiety and stress -LOL- remind me I said that when we list our house okay? Hopefully both yours and ours will be sold by rally time! In the meantime, I am resuming my yoga
Jo and Ben said
09:05 PM Jan 29, 2014
One showing yesterday, three today. We have at least one (maybe two) offers coming in tonight or tomorrow morning. Woohoo!!
Jo
WestWardHo said
09:10 PM Jan 29, 2014
Jo and Ben,
WooHoo is right!!! Negotiate.
Sherry
Jo and Ben said
09:15 PM Jan 29, 2014
Good advice Sherry! We are hoping that the first people, knowing that there may be a second offer, will come in at or near asking, but we shall see.
jrzygrl64 said
06:27 AM Jan 30, 2014
How exciting for you!
Seems I will have someone else (along with Red) to send me some 'quick sale' mojo!
Good luck!
el Rojo and Pam said
03:32 PM Jan 30, 2014
Congrats!!!!!!
The Restless Youngs said
08:41 PM Jan 30, 2014
Congrats!! Excited for you...... We're your neighbors for the rally--#223.
Jo and Ben said
09:13 PM Jan 30, 2014
Two full price offers! We are under contract. Wow, what a ride! Can't wait to meet everyone at the rally, and hope everyone else getting ready to list their houses have equally good results :)
Jo
LibertyLinda said
09:24 PM Jan 30, 2014
WOW Do bidding wars still exist? Oh send your karma our way!
Cindi said
08:03 AM Jan 31, 2014
Sold in just 4 days!!. You need to send that powerful mojo to PA.
Jo and Ben said
09:32 AM Jan 31, 2014
We are still pinching ourselves. There are a number of houses in our area that have been sitting on the market for months. I was expecting it to take at least a month or two. Imagine my surprise when the phone started ringing the day the house went on the market to request appointments for showings. We worked our butts off fixing it up and painting and getting it looking great. This is apparently a great time to list since there is a shortage of nice houses on the market, and people needing to buy now have little to choose from. The first offer was full price but wanting us to pay $4000 of their closing costs. The second offer was $7000 over asking but with us paying $7000 in closing costs for them, making it the asking price. We were afraid the house would not appraise for that much and the deal would fall through later. We let the first people know that if they would drop the request for the $4000 closing costs and give us full price they could have the house, and they readily agreed. We wanted them to have it anyway, it's our local fire chief :)
Price them right, get them on the market before the spring rush of sales if possible and they will sell. Sending our fast-sale mojo to all of you :)
Jo
WestWardHo said
06:46 PM Feb 1, 2014
That is freakin' awesome! So happy for you. See you at the Rally.
Sherry
Camper Chronicles said
09:53 AM Feb 2, 2014
Thanks so much for sharing this. Makes me hopeful for a quick sale for us
Well I guess this is really happening! After a month of frantic painting, repairing, and cleaning, we signed the papers today to sell the house. We have purchased a Ford F350 dually to pull our Arctic Fox 32-5M. Our realtor thinks the house will sell quickly (fingers crossed). If so, we will stay in the 5er here in Colorado for a couple of months while we finish up at our current jobs, then hit the road! Woohoo! It's exciting and scary all at once. We are excited to meet many of you at the spring rally in TN (which by the way is where my grandchildren are, so added bonus
). We have been purging stuff for several months now so hopefully the move into the RV won't be too overwhelming. This forum has been incredibly helpful as we have been researching and learning and having so many questions, so I just want to thank all of you for your wonderful, caring personalities and willingness to answer everyone's questions (which have benefited us). I feel honored to be joining such an amazing group of people!
Jo
Keep us updated!
Jo
Red
Jo and Ben,
What an awesome step in your journey!
We are a month away from listing. We will hopefully meet in TN at the rally - I'd like to hear your thoughts on nursing while full-timing - I'm a RN with a psychology degree too, LOL.
Linda, let's definitely meet up at the rally. I think we are in site #222. We have a little experience with doing travel nursing already and think it will be a great way to be full-timers! I'd be happy to talk with you anytime about it. Are you working in psych now?
Ok, taking deep breaths, will continue to post our updates :)
Jo
I don't remember what site number we are - but we will meet up.
I am currently doing intensive case management with Medicare folks. I did psych nursing directly for about 15 or so years, then I went to Hospice and now case management. Anyway, I will love to talk.
In the meantime, I think you guys know that intense focusing on any and all look-see's on your house will only contribute to your anxiety and stress -LOL- remind me I said that when we list our house okay?
Hopefully both yours and ours will be sold by rally time! 
In the meantime, I am resuming my yoga 
Jo
WooHoo is right!!! Negotiate.
Sherry
Seems I will have someone else (along with Red) to send me some 'quick sale' mojo!
Good luck!
Jo
WOW
Do bidding wars still exist? Oh send your karma our way! 
Price them right, get them on the market before the spring rush of sales if possible and they will sell. Sending our fast-sale mojo to all of you :)
Jo
Sherry