Contract?
We got an offer on Morning Vista! And this time, we might really be able to make a deal. We countered today, and we'll hear back tomorrow. I am so nervous- I'm afraid we were too aggressive with our counter offer, but everyone else involved seems to think it is reasonable. Even if we do get a contract, we still have to pass a due diligence period. Fingers crossed nothing major turns up on the inspection. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I am hopeful that something will actually come of this.
Our counter offer pushed the closing date from the end of December into January, which will be helpful considering we'll be packing and moving over the holidays. Our house on Sunnyside will still not be livable by then, but my parents agreed to take us on as roommates for a few weeks. Our plan, regardless of whether or not this deal comes together, is to get one of those Pods and just park it at Sunnyside until we're completely ready to unload. We have a lot of furniture we don't want to keep, so we'll have to work on giving it away. I'm not going to put in the effort to try and sell it. We have a trip planned in December, plus Dylan has two other work trips. We also have Graham's birthday and a load of holiday events. It will be crazy, but we will get it done.
If this deal comes together, and we unload Morning Vista just weeks before Sunnyside is move-in ready, well, I don't think I (or anybody) should need any more evidence of the perfection of God's timing. I've wanted to move for over a year. Our house has been on the market for over six months. We've been shopping real estate in Scottsdale for our new home since before ours went on the market. It took a lot of time, disappointment, back-and-forth, energy and emotion. When it all comes together, though, it will be just perfect. And to think, the house might go under contract the day before Thanksgiving. As the holidays began approaching and our house was still on the market, we got really worried that everyone would lose interest in buying real estate until after the new year. Just goes to show the limits of what we know! If we don't get a deal, well I still have faith in the timing of things. It will just be about waiting to see how it unfolds to find the lesson in it.
I've been reading a few pages here and there of Oprah's book, The Wisdom of Sundays. It has excerpts from her conversations with other famous people about spirituality, mindfulness, etc. and it's such a good, good book. One major takeaway from it this week is the lesson that we can only control two things. We can control how to prepare for what might happen, and we can control how we react to what does happen. We have no control over what actually happens. So why would we try? (I wish I could give credit for who actually said that in her book, but I can't remember right now. And not enough people read this for it to matter, I don't think.) For now, I'll do my best to remain optimistic and see what happens, because why would I go about it any other way?
Our counter offer pushed the closing date from the end of December into January, which will be helpful considering we'll be packing and moving over the holidays. Our house on Sunnyside will still not be livable by then, but my parents agreed to take us on as roommates for a few weeks. Our plan, regardless of whether or not this deal comes together, is to get one of those Pods and just park it at Sunnyside until we're completely ready to unload. We have a lot of furniture we don't want to keep, so we'll have to work on giving it away. I'm not going to put in the effort to try and sell it. We have a trip planned in December, plus Dylan has two other work trips. We also have Graham's birthday and a load of holiday events. It will be crazy, but we will get it done.
If this deal comes together, and we unload Morning Vista just weeks before Sunnyside is move-in ready, well, I don't think I (or anybody) should need any more evidence of the perfection of God's timing. I've wanted to move for over a year. Our house has been on the market for over six months. We've been shopping real estate in Scottsdale for our new home since before ours went on the market. It took a lot of time, disappointment, back-and-forth, energy and emotion. When it all comes together, though, it will be just perfect. And to think, the house might go under contract the day before Thanksgiving. As the holidays began approaching and our house was still on the market, we got really worried that everyone would lose interest in buying real estate until after the new year. Just goes to show the limits of what we know! If we don't get a deal, well I still have faith in the timing of things. It will just be about waiting to see how it unfolds to find the lesson in it.
I've been reading a few pages here and there of Oprah's book, The Wisdom of Sundays. It has excerpts from her conversations with other famous people about spirituality, mindfulness, etc. and it's such a good, good book. One major takeaway from it this week is the lesson that we can only control two things. We can control how to prepare for what might happen, and we can control how we react to what does happen. We have no control over what actually happens. So why would we try? (I wish I could give credit for who actually said that in her book, but I can't remember right now. And not enough people read this for it to matter, I don't think.) For now, I'll do my best to remain optimistic and see what happens, because why would I go about it any other way?
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