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cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Update on plans

SnowGypsy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl: Glad things are moving quickly and hopefully you're on a roll that will roll you through the sale and onto the road quickly. I had heard in the fall that they were expecting the real estate market to pick up so let's hope that information is on the mark.

Camper Chronicles · RV-Dreams Family Member

That's awesome Cheryl...good for you guys!!! Sometimes it's all about the forward motion :)

2riker2go · RV-Dreams Family Member

Sounds like things are progressing nicely Cheryl! That's great!

We went through the same thing with piles for awhile. Moved them around from room to room. lol But eventually they got smaller and the space got bigger.

Hope your house sale goes smoothly and quickly!!

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hope it all falls into place Cheryl!!!!

Keep going it will all come together !!!!!!

Dance Chick · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl,

I hope you're able to sell your house quickly and for a price that will set you up nicely to move forward.

I just wanted to make a comment that I agree with your approach to have the place move in ready. We sold our condo last year for asking price to the 2nd person who looked at it - listed on a Tuesday and sold two days later on Thursday. Yes, we had to spend some money making sure there were no issues whatsoever and that it was updated, but I'm convinced that is why it sold so fast and for our price. If the house is priced well for the current market, and there are no glaring deficiencies, then a potential buyer has no logical reason to low ball. Notice I said logical reason as there are people out there who don't want to pay for anything. There's not much we can do about them. But, you're doing your absolute best to facilitate a quick sale, and that's all you can do.

Good luck. Here's hoping that this time next month there's a SOLD sign in your front yard.

Gayle

jrzygrl64 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl,

Sounds like things are moving forward nicely for you! I still have so much to do around here, mostly smaller stuff, like touch up paint, etc. The biggest hurdle will be all the purging, which I have started but then the holidays came along, I got stalled on that and so now I have to get back into it. I hope your house sells quickly for you once you list, and I hope mine sells quickly once we list! And - for good prices!

Good luck with all your construction and forward momentum! Keep us updated!

Kelly

MarkS · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl, congrats on moving forward and hope that your progress is unhindered. (Read: personal foul, nose rubbing penalty, 15 yards). I have to admit that although I really want to join you in the wild blue yonder, I am not looking forward to eliminating all the stuff. That is an incredible amount of work. It sounds like you have your arms wrapped around it pretty well. I hope your progress is smooth and without problems.

Bill and Jodee · RV-Dreams Family Member

Onward and upward Cheryl! It may be chaotic and hard work but I can "hear" the enthusiasm in your "voice"! Keep up the positive movement and we'll be hearing about your first trip out the driveway in no time.

I know Mike has a happy dance with your name on it just waiting to bust a move!!

Jodee

The Restless Youngs · RV-Dreams Family Member

Best of luck...and maybe everything being in a total state of chaos will make it easier to purge!! Here's hoping for a fast selling of your house!!

NurseJudy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Good luck with the sale Cheryl. I hope everything continues to move along smoothly for you. I am a firm believer in the one door closes and another opens theory of life. Embrace the adventure!

WestWardHo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl,

Great news. That will be a huge load off your mind. May it sell quickly and your other plans move forward smoothly!

Sherry

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Now we have a date! House gets listed next Thursday - March 20th, with an open house on March 30th. Realtor feels very confident about getting an offer on that day. From her mouth to God's ears!!!

el Rojo and Pam · RV-Dreams Family Member

Great news Cheryl! Keep up posted.

Jo and Ben · RV-Dreams Family Member

Very exciting! Good luck with selling the house, we will send along some of our quick-sale mojo :)

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

Great news. If the realtor likes it, it will sell quick.

LandL Partners · RV-Dreams Family Member

Good luck on a fast sell!!

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Looking back at all my posts and my blog, which started in Feb. 2011 when we made the decision to F/T, it's really amazing how far we've come. I can't believe we've reached this day!

Had the open house today. Already have 2 offers and that's only on the first day of showing!

Cindi · RV-Dreams Family Member

Way to go, Cheryl. All your hard work getting ready to list is paying off!!

jrzygrl64 · RV-Dreams Family Member

OMG - HOW AWESOME IS THAT! So happy for you!

We better get this place listed before all the fast sell mojo has run out!

Kelly

DRV · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats to being sooo close to your dream. Two offers means the house will sell. Only question is how high it will sell for.

el Rojo and Pam · RV-Dreams Family Member

WHOO>>>>>HOOO!!!!

mylittledogs · RV-Dreams Family Member

That sounds great, good luck. Ours goes on the market next week. An having a big yard sale saturday.
Kenny & frances

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

confuse Can you hold off for a day or two?........

I need to go out and get fitted for a new pair of Dancing shoes!!!! biggrin aww biggrin biggrin

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

I've also managed to get one of my cats adopted and have another family very interested in the other 2.

On another note (nothing ever runs smoothly), we have lakes all over our property. Discovered our neighbor installed a drain pipe leading from his house directly under the fence into our backyard!!! So with the heavy rains yesterday and his drainage, some potential buyers were turned away because of the flooding on the property, which was never there before! We're dealing with that issue which hopefully will be easily remedied. Meanwhile we put a cap on the end of the pipe. Maybe it'll back up into his house!!!

bigboomer · RV-Dreams Family Member

Very Cool! Wishing you much luck with those offers so that you can leave that ball and chain state, NJ, like we did 2 years ago!

Cannot wait to see Mike's Lucky Dance Video!

Camper Chronicles · RV-Dreams Family Member

cherylbrv wrote:
Meanwhile we put a cap on the end of the pipe. Maybe it'll back up into his house!!!

You go girl!!!!

Jo and Ben · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats on getting the house on the market and 2 offers already! What kind of neighbor would install a drain pipe and drain it right onto your property!?! Sheesh.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

When we had a house built back in '96, the neighbor we had insisted to the builder that he wanted a retaining wall between our lot and his. He didn't want drainage coming off of our property onto his, and this was just normal runoff on the surface of the ground. The builder asked if we wanted wood or concrete for the retaining wall, so we chose concrete.

However, karma being what it was, the installation of the retaining wall then made the water from his own property to stand right at the side door of his garage. He ended up having to put concrete all along that side of his house.

This same neighbor complained that we bought the corner lot for our house because they were using it for their badminton and volleyball games before we did so. I think that is what got to him more than anything.

Terry

tigercx1 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Another plus to RVing, if you don't like or have problems with a neighbor, just move your house to a new location.

Mark

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

tigercx1 wrote:
Another plus to RVing, if you don't like or have problems with a neighbor, just move your house to a new location.

Mark

Exactly! Can't wait!

NWescapee · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats!! Let the bidding war begin, that was actually kind of a fun process to go through, more than one person actually wanted our old house. wink It made us realize all the hard work was worth it when we more than recouped all our investment to get it ready to go on the market. biggrin

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Actually, it all kind of fell through. The first folks changed their minds because they felt the taxes were too high, and the second ones decided it wasn't really the house they wanted.

We did, however, get a third offer and they even put down a deposit. However, it was for $30K less than our asking price!!! Extremely insulting! We're willing, at least at this point, to go down 10K, but we already started the pricing as low as possible - a bit below the going rate - for a quick sale. We're not looking for top dollar, but rather a quick sale, but there IS a limit to how low we can afford to go.

Of course, anything is better than foreclosure, but it's only the 2nd day of showing the house, so we have a little bit of time to play with. At least another week or 2 to see how things go.

Jo and Ben · RV-Dreams Family Member

Three offers in the first two days of showing is a good sign! Hang in there, the right offer will come soon :)

LandL Partners · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hang in there, all your hard work will pay off!

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl,

When we sold a 5-acre place with a nice house and a big metal shed, we were offered a price that was about $50,000 below our asking price. We "countered" by offering to drop our price by $2000 and throw in a Craftsman lawn tractor. They took it.

So, give them a counter-offer and see if they will still be interested. You never will know until you try.

Terry

TRAILERKING · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo wrote:
Cheryl,
When we sold a 5-acre place with a nice house and a big metal shed, we were offered a price that was about $50,000 below our asking price. We "countered" by offering to drop our price by $2000 and throw in a Craftsman lawn tractor. They took it.
So, give them a counter-offer and see if they will still be interested. You never will know until you try.
Terry

.....................but what if she doesn't have a Craftsman tractor??

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

We're throwing in the lawn mower, snow blower and a water cooler (I know, nowhere close to the tractor)! My realtor did remind me how despite all the work we did, it was only very basic cosmetic repairs - mostly to hide the ugly and give a good, clean first impression when walking in. Upon further inspection, there is still plenty of work to be done, like replacing the windows and patio door, replacing the front brick steps, repaving the driveway, and grading the backyard so it doesn't keep flooding when it rains. It was also pointed out that the gutters need to be replaced and the fascia board below the gutters is rotted (we're handling that this week).

Bottom line is that we should take the money and run! The longer the house is on the market, the harder it will be to sell, and again, our goal was a quick sale, not getting top dollar. Quick sale not only because we want to get on with our new lives already, but because since neither of us have a steady, reliable income, I don't know how much longer we'll be able to pay the mortgage. We've been very lucky so far, but we can't rely on miracles. "A bird in the hand...."

We did make a counter offer, so we'll see what they come back with.

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

You gotta believe that it will sell. Keep picking along on the small stuff that needs to be done. It might also be time to sit down with the bank and say OK, its listed, we're still improving it, we've had offers that leave won't pay off the note, can you help us?
A thought, if you listed the house at a higher price, it would give you room to come down for repairs the buyers want, or have your relator list it "As is".

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

Alie and Jims Carrilite wrote:
You gotta believe that it will sell. Keep picking along on the small stuff that needs to be done. It might also be time to sit down with the bank and say OK, its listed, we're still improving it, we've had offers that leave won't pay off the note, can you help us?
A thought, if you listed the house at a higher price, it would give you room to come down for repairs the buyers want, or have your relator list it "As is".

Thank you for the suggestion. Fortunately, the offer is still way above what we need to pay off the mortgage and some other debts. The areas we'd need to compromise on is how much we can put in our nest egg - for the first few years of living on the road plus emergency funds, as well as the budget for the rig we can buy.

WendysPhotos · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congratulation Cheryl!!! Hopefully it will close fast and you can get going.

I am still procrastinating, because we need to place 3 more cats and 2 more horses. It is very hard for me. They are our family, but we will not let it hold us back from our dreams. I just want it to be the right home for them.

Wendy

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

I think I sold my house!!!!!

Got an offer today that was actually pretty decent, although we asked for a little bit more and they accepted! So ready to proceed to the next step!

Realistically preparing for more hiccups and obstacles -- most likely in the inspector finding more things wrong with the house -- but hopefully nothing that can't be resolved or sending them running.

I shouldn't be so negative. This is exciting news, right?

jrzygrl64 · RV-Dreams Family Member

You go girl! I am so excited for you! We listed last night - send some of that quick sale mojo to your friend in PA!

Hope it all works out for you!

Kelly

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

Keep it positive! Congrats, now just go with the flow and everything will work out the way it should.

WestWardHo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Cheryl,

That's awesome news. Inspections can be scary on older houses but you do know the potential issues so hopefully nothing surprises the inspector or you. "Get 're done" and get on the road. You're so close now and have been working so hard to start your dream.

Sherry

Jo and Ben · RV-Dreams Family Member

Awesome new Cheryl. Keeping fingers crossed for a good inspection!

Camper Chronicles · RV-Dreams Family Member

That's so amazing ...so happy for you!!!

The Restless Youngs · RV-Dreams Family Member

Congrats!!

cherylbrv · RV-Dreams Family Member

So we signed the contract today, and then get a call from the realtor that another offer came in at about $5K more!!!

Not sure if we're going to consider it, though. The current buyers are renters so there's no other property to sell. If it's not the same situation, than let's keep the bird in hand!

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

Your current buyers not needing to sell to buy is a very big plus. Twice we were in that situation and twice we bumped another offer where the buyers needed to sell to buy. The first time we had no house to sell, the second time it was a risk we had to take to get the house. Luckily it worked out.