We're Listed!

After taking several nights in a row staying up late to clean, pack and get the house ready, the realtor came out on Friday morning in the rain to take pictures of our house. He thought it would be 2-3 days until our first showing (he didn't expect to post it until Friday afternoon). Before we knew it, we had a request for our first showing!

Here is our listing:
http://skogman.com/property/7579879/

We had the showing on Saturday afternoon. Tanner, Grayson, Max, Marley and I went to visit Autumn and Reed during the showing. While we were there, Max decided to run away. We found him at a house down the street where some good neighbors had caught him and called my cell phone number from his tag, even though my phone was in the car. We still haven't heard any comments from the showing.

It's been a rough week, full of late nights, and a lot of hard work. We hope it's all worth it and the house sells quickly! It's difficult to keep it looking like a "model home" in the meantime. We're excited to take the buyer perspective on Friday morning when we go to look at houses for us to buy. Yay!

Staging

Part of the moving process is having to stage your house to make it look as large as possible. Trina and I had spent the previous few nights packing boxes and cleaning out rooms to make our place look larger and more inviting. After we gave it our best shot, our Realtor sent professional stagers to our house to finish things off. I thought we were going to have to change a lot of things, but we did pretty good. Most of their suggestions were things that we had already discussed doing.

There were a couple of surprises. I was surprised that we were asked to take out one of our sofas from the living room and store it. I was also surprised that they moved our coffee table to the basement and the basement coffee table to storage. I was even more surprised when they didn't ask us to repaint Graysons room or the Cubs bathroom. They loved them both. I thought that they would be a turn-off for some people, but the stagers told us to keep them the way they were. In fact, those were the only two rooms that the stagers didn't have to change a single thing.

Here are all of the Juilfs grandchildren at Clara's baptism last weekend.