WOW what a weekend!!!

We sold out house this weekend.  Full asking price and three offers.  We were all shocked.  What did we do to celebrate?  We went out for a few cocktails with friends.  We ended out at The Mix in downtown.  It was Scott, Donovan, Daniel, Johnny, David, and several others.  Before we left Scott and I found out selves in the photo booth…  I didn’t know they made these things anymore.  VERY cool.  We were in there and Scott said we need to move around!!!  That was after the first two pictures were taken. 

Too Fun!!  Love our friends.

That was last night.  Today I went to Ikea.  TOTALLY the wrong day to do that.  Memorial Day is not a happy day at that store especially when they are giving out free breakfast.  I survived the 10 minutes before opening.   There were TONS of people.  All I have to say is COME-ON it is just Ikea.  What the F.   Why so many people?   Very odd.  They all packed themselves in at the door like cattle waiting for slaughter.  I went outside and waited for them to all be safely in the store for about 10 minutes. 

After I went to Peggi and Franks and had lunch with my second Mom.  Love her.  Lots of changes going on there.  Hope that all happy dreams come true.

Ok.. So then it was off to Bremerton where I looked at 6 houses with Tom and Amanda (the gal that listed our house)….   BIG news.. Sold one house one day and made an offer on the next day on a new house.  It is a cheap little house.  Smaller than the Tacoma house (by a little).  It was listed at $105,000 and was a bank repo.  I found out that there was other offers on it and they were all under the list price.  I offered the list price, no inspection, and I will pay all the closing costs. 

Scary..  This house has been on the market for over 800 days.  That means nothing has been run for over 800 days.  Yep… It is a gamble.  I think it is an ok one.  Tom freaked out about that it was septic instead of sewer.  The past two inspections (one last month and one in 2003) had no issues, so I feel ok.  It has a NEW kitchen and NEW bathroom.  It needs carpet, there is none and needs just a little wall work around the place where the stack washer and dryer goes. 

It really reminds me of the Tacoma house in that it was a diamond in the rough.  Should be interesting.  I hope they accept my offer.  Tomorrow will be busy.  I need to learn lots about septic tomorrow.  Fast!!  I have three days before the paper work will be here for me to sign.  If there is a problem then that is my last chance to get out..  Get out short of the $1000 I put down on earnest money

We sign paperwork today to put the house on the market.

Scary…

Hope it sells fast.  Not a great market.

Know anyone who wants a pretty house?  www.TacomaHouse4Sale.com…

Peace out…

- J

Tom was over this weekend and helped do a mini remodel of the pantry off the back deck. 

Before it was this crappy cardboard like wall board that they put in such things probably back in the 1950’s.  Basically if you leaned too hard on the wall you would have a hole in no time.  That coupled with the fact that there is about two and a half 2×4’s in the whole thing made it really interesting. 

We decided to wrap it all in paintable paneling.  5 sheets later and the most inexpensive molding we could find and it was done in 3 hours.

In steps Daniel and probably 8 tubes of chaulking and some left over white paint.  It looks great for a little crappy pantry.  We are just amazed how it transformed it. 

Not that interesting but it is the real last project on the house before we sell.  Next is carpet cleaning, touch up of the paint in the master closet, and then just simple staging.

The real estate agents that we have been talking to all came up with the same price for the house.  It looks like $239,000.  I think that we are all happy with that price.   Of course everyone in the world want more but it is a good place to start.  We even had a very interested buyer at the house twice yestarday.  Mr Beautiful Eyes and his girlfriend seemed to really like the house even before it was on the market.  That even in the messy state that it is in.  Johnny and Daniel had emptied the attic and been packing up lots of stuff, so stuff was everywhere. 

Here is a picture of the new and improved pantry.

Later ya’all

-J