Third time is (indeed) a charm!

6 weeks ago we were given an offer on our

Home...the first home we owned.

Since than sooo much has happened,

And on Friday May 9th we

Will be closing on the sale

Of our home.

Luckily, that doesn't make us 

Homeless....

My great aunt sue

And uncle Clark offered their home

To us!

It is just the two of them in 

The 5000 square foot

House, and they gave us

The entire basement to use until

We find a new house to buy....

This has been the biggest blessing,

Because renting on a short term lease

Is around 1900/month

For a two bedroom apartment....

And a lot of them don't allow dogs

(And we have two of those).

And to make it even better, she 

Told us not to unpack any dishes, 

Towels, pots pans etc...

She had the basement kitchen stocked with dishes 

And the bathrooms had towels sitting on the counter

All ready for use.

The local lds church ward came over and helped us unpack the

Moving truck, and also came bearing cookies!

(A little different from where we just moved from...one guy showed up

To help us move stuff into the truck, and yes they had an email sent out days before the move)

The people here are so friendly,

Everyone says

Hello as you walk down the street...

When I did that in wheat ridge most people looked the other way.

We have been looking at afew different neighborhoods,

But all I will say is that we are going north!

Some people think we are crazy when we say we

Sold our home that we lived in

For 18 months...

But when we bought it, we knew we were getting 

A great deal on it, and we knew we wanted to fix and flip

It for a profit....

Some people told us we were crazy when we set out

To do this in November 2012, and they didn't think it was possible.

With a little patience, a lot of work and a ton 

Of weekends dedicated to projects...

As of tomorrow we will have achieved 

What many told us was not going to happen.

Cheers to the many memories we made

In that amazing 102 year old home.

And congrats to the new owners...

I have met them, and it am so grateful the first two

Sales fell thru, because this is the family I wanna pass

This home onto!

Third time is definitely a charm!

3rd times a charm?

Wednesday Our house went back on the market for a 3rd time.

Thursday we had 5 showings in the evening.

Friday Morning we had an offer!

We are under contract again...

for the 3rd time.

Selling a house is so. not. fun.

yet it is exciting that this may be the one.

The buyers are a couple,

and one, or both of them are

veterans....

that's all I know.

Fingers crossed that they

are not like the "buyer" we had

last time....

This home is more fit for the 

person that listens to "Bright Eyes",

wears dark rim glasses,

Throws Holiday Parties,

Wears clothes that are from the thrift store,

Loves Wes Anderson Movies

and Yoga...

Just Kidding,

as long as they arent dressed for an

Insane Clown Posse concert...

I'm content!

Here's to hoping that

the 3rd time really is a charm!

My Favorite room in the house..Sun room.  We will miss blowing bubbles and decorating it for Holidays.  This was Halloween, and it's hard to see the spider webs..but they were everywhere!

 

Under Contract...Just kidding

The other day a 30-something

year old guy and his friend,

who were wearing 

matching green shirts,

parked in front of our house, got out of the car and 

gazed and pointed at our home for about

10 minutes....

I figured it was the "buyer" that gave us 

an offer the day before....

Well, that wasn't the "buyer"...

this is how I met our buyer!

Last week the inspection on the 

house was completed and PASSED!

Today was the last day they could back out

of the contract, and they wanted to walk thru the house again...

I was a little surprised when a different 30 something year old

guy wearing a HUGE skull necklace with gem stone eyes,

Jnco jeans (that were wide enough to have a picnic on)

sporting an untamed beard,

and wreaking of cigarettes

shows up at our door.....
(I knew the buyer was a single male, whose
Grandparents were buying him a house...but I imagined the guy
as a financial banker, who wore vintage glasses,
wore skinny jeans and toms shoes
and threw parties on the weekend...ha not the case!)

Anyway....he decided to back out of the contract today 

after his 2nd walk-thru.

Are you kidding?

I have almost everything packed...

pictures have been taken off the walls...etc

and that wasn't easy with 2 baby boys!

Back on the market we go....

better luck this time!

My 2 lil helpers...3 helpers, if you also count Lily Bug

Things just got Real, REAL quick

Our house officially hit the market

on the 13th of March..

We began showings on Saturday at noon..

The open house was also Saturday..

24 groups of potential buyers walked thru...

Sunday the 16th, we got an offer!!!

(Only 30 hours after showings began!)

We are now under contract with an ALL CASH OFFER,

which means we dont have to wait for the banks to 

process/approve any financing.

That means if all goes smooth,

we have 14 days to move.

14 days 'til we can call it SOLD!

I have a mix of emotions right now.

Anxious-2 weeks to move a family of 4 is on the verge of insanity, 

and I am about to willingly go there.

Happy/excited-moving to a more family friendly neighborhood will be nice, and

a home with more bedrooms and a more open floor plan

will be more convenient with the lil guys!

Questioning-Will this new owner love this home as much

as we do?  Am I ready to hand over the keys to our fist home?

Where are we headed? 

No Clue....

We will probably have to rent for a short

amount of time so we can find a home that

will be perfect for our family for 3-5 years.

Here is the listing:

FOR SALE....


And in case you forgot, here is what it looked like the night
we saw it for the first time!
(It has come a long way since September 2012)

Living room, needed paint and lots of primer!

Basement, AKA peewee's playhouse

Exterior....love the brick and windows!

horrible pic of the front

bedroom, broken heaters, missing ceiling fan/lights

Mudroom, dirty!

Bathroom, Easter Egg Blue, missing tub handle

The Baby room, clouds painted ALL around, missing ceiling fan/light

Our First Apartment!

I am so glad I found these pics!!

So this is where it all began....

Shaun and I got married in August 2007,

we rented this little

garden level gem for $350/month.

The carpet in the kitchen was probably 

45 years old, and I would have

trusted my bare butt cheeks to a Dairy Queen toilet seat

before I would have walked on that greasy

disease-infested carpet BAREFOOT

(We kept our flip flops close by at all times).

The back splash, counters, fridge, oven and carpet all 

coordinated in color!

the walls were a horrible dingy gray

color that made the apt 

very dark and sad feeling...

so we bought some cheap paint and

fixed that.

The bathroom was similar to

a Motel 6, where there is no door

between the living space and 

the vanity/sink.

And I am not 100% sure, but

I think the upstairs neighbor

sold drugs....I have never seen somebody

have over so many "friends"

that stayed for 30 seconds or less.

I had 6 months left of college and Shaun 

had just started college 

(no, I was not a cradle robber, he just started later than some)..

and we both had PT jobs that paid

Idaho wages,

So it was this or....use a credit card.

We chose this, and it worked just fine!

Luckily nobody got any diseases while living there!

Mello Yellow kitchen with CARPET...yay

That is one good looking guy...and paint job!

Nice looking tan from the honey moon!

The mudroom....from start to finish

We have lived in our home now for 15 months now...

and I finally decorated the mudroom!

We painted it....

and than it sat empty....

I couldn't figure out what to do with the space,

but after we got the desk for 

the computer,

my buffet was available again!

I tried many different things in that space,

but nothing ever seemed to "fit".....

Mudroom from start to finish!

BEFORE, I took this pic the night we first saw the home with our realtor!

We painted it Sherwin William's BLONDE

painting it made the large vintage trim more visible...love!

It then sat empty.....

The final product....

Shaun and I bought that framed pic at Ross when we lived at our

little apartment on Main St Rexburg, Idaho.

I think we paid $20 for it, which was a lot of money

for starving students.

the picture is a remake of the

famous Parapluie Revel ad that

was printed in 1929.

It was an advertisement for umbrellas....

Vintage Advertisement in a vintage home=perfection 

The Buffet was from an Estate Sale...my 2nd most expensive piece I have

ever bought at an Estate Sale.

The Lamp was my Great Grandpa's, my grandma estimated

that it was from the 1940s!

TOTAL COST:

Picture $20 (Ross)

Paint $35 (Sherwin William's)

Buffet $100 (Estate Sale)

Lamp (was my great Grandpa's 1940's ish)

$120

steep and cheap desk

I forgot I did not post pics of

of the desk we got for

Christmas...

It took me a long time to find a desk I wanted....

There was one at world market that I liked,

but I did not like the $170 price tag.

World Market desk $169...too rich for my blood

Home Depot desk $54

Luckily I found one on sale at Home depot for $54 !

we picked it up in store (to save shipping cost)

This is the beginning of the desk assembly.

YES, that is a bag of Chili Cheese Frito's among the mess

(a girls gotta eat)

 1.5 hours later, AKA 2 baby diaper changings, 1 bottle feeding, and 2 snacks made for the boys later.

Caden wanted to help me assemble this, and thus it took much longer than anticipated...

he was a good helper for the most part (minus the hunt I had to go on for all the screws)

The finished product!

My grandma gave me the chair in December...and it was perfect size and style.

(I remember her every time I look at the chair...)

The rug was given to us by one of Shaun's friends,

whose parents own a furniture store.

TOTAL COST

desk $54 (on sale)

chair $0

Rug $0

$54

The world market desk looks almost identical to the home depot desk...

just a $115 difference!