Tollywog's Blog: Are We Crazy?

I believe the answer to that question is yes. Within the span of one year, Ryan and I have gotten married, given our little house a makeover, found out that I was pregnant, and put our house on the market. In the next two weeks we will also celebrate our first anniversary and have a baby (hopefully this will happen in the next two weeks). A year ago, if you had told me that we would be here now, I would have laughed in your face. If I have learned one thing this year, it's that God plans aren't always the same as ours.

Yes, you did read that right, we put our house on the market two weeks before we are about to have a baby. Most people would NEVER do this, but like I said, we are crazy. My mother in law is a real estate agent, and we like to look at houses around our neighborhood for fun. About a month ago, I called to see if she could show us a house that I had been eying online. It turned out that the house I wanted to see was not at all what I thought it would be. Ryan and I want a house that we can do a lot of work to, but the floor plan of this house was not ideal.

Later that day we ended up looking at another house on the same street that we absolutely loved. When I saw this house online, I turned my nose up at it, but it was much better in person than I originally thought. As we walked around the house talking about the changes we could make, I started imagining our little family there. Ryan must have been thinking the same thing because by the time we got back to our house we had decided to make an offer.The next day Ryan's mom was at our house so we could sign the papers. Now, I know it sounds like we made a quick decision about this house without giving it much thought, but we have been looking at houses around our neighborhood for a couple of years now, and we know what we want. Ryan and I both knew that this house was what we were looking for.

The current owners of the house we liked were in the process of painting the entire house and putting in new hardwood floors. The offer we made was much lower than the asking price, contingent upon selling our house, and we asked that they stop all work being done, so that we could finish it ourselves. When we made this offer, we thought there was no way that the owners would accept it with all of those conditions, but we made it anyway, just to see.

Well, they ended up accepting our offer, so now we are trying to sell our house. I bought this house a little over four and half years ago, and I have loved living here. Ryan and I have been slowly but surely making many changes to it over our time here. It is a great house, and I will be sad to leave it, but things are getting a little tight with two adults, two high maintenance dogs, and a baby on the way.

If you are interested, here are few pictures of what our house currently looks like. I will have to do a post of some before and after pictures another day. Also, here is the link to the MLS listing: house.
Even if you are not interested, pass the word along to someone who might be. Help us get our house sold, so we can add a little more craziness to our lives. :)