This is it :)
Tomorrow, we are moving out of our old home, and on Saturday, we are moving to our new home. :)
The past few months has been a real rollercoaster ride for us with regards to selling and buying. Over a hundred people have walked through our townhouse since May. In this slow real estate market, we’ve had to lower our asking price a few times and finally, an offer came in; and luckily, it was at a price we were happy with. In comparison, our next door neighbor sold his townhouse last year in 4 days! Keeping our house clean and presentable the past 5 months has been challenging especially with an active and messy preschooler.
I cannot thank our realtor, Kerry Sandrin from Royal LePage Coronation West, enough. Throughout this process, Kerry has always been hardworking, upbeat, honest, professional and patient with us. She spent a lot on advertising and showing our place, diligently organizing open houses and showing our place to prospective buyers. She has shown us countless homes from North Delta to Maple Ridge, helping us find the perfect home in the right location. And once we found a place, she worked hard to get the price we wanted. And with the tight timelines the past few weeks, she was on top of everything, keeping things on track and making sure we did all the necessary steps (lawyer, bank, mortgage, inspection, insurance, etc) to complete the process. I would not hesitate recommending her to anyone wanting to sell or buy a place. She’s awesome! Thank you so much Kerry, for everything! (And thank you Sandra, for recommending Kerry to us!)
The next few days and weeks will be all about transition as we settle into our new place and neighbourhood. The commute to work will be longer by at least 20 minutes – that will be a challenge for me as I am not a morning person. LOL! I also know that I will miss our old neighbourhood as we have gotten to know some wonderful neighbours through the years. For now, we will keep Claire in the neighbourhood Montessori preschool daycare, so we’ll still be around “The Village” for the next few months. In fact, we’re planning our trick or treating festivities there next week. Can’t wait! In the meantime, we have to finish our last minute packing and cleaning. Exciting times ahead!
Beautiful house, good luck with the move!
Posted by: Joybear | October 23, 2008 at 09:31 PM
Congrats on the new house! It's a beautiful home! We just started our own househunt -- I hope it goes as well as yours did!
Posted by: Cathy | October 23, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Wow! Looks like a decent sized house! How fun!
Posted by: kelli | October 24, 2008 at 09:03 AM
The house looks like a good size. You'll get used to the longer drive to work. Use that extra driving time to design scrap pages in your head :)
Hope the move goes quickly and smoothly.
Posted by: raeclevett | October 24, 2008 at 09:36 AM
yeaaaaaaaa! all the stress will be worth it!
welcome to the "almost close enough to be called the hood"
:)
Posted by: jenn | October 26, 2008 at 01:28 PM
Where did you end up buying Anna? The lot looks huge and very well kept (the house too). You'll love it, I have no regrets of buying a house!
Posted by: Erica | October 27, 2008 at 06:27 PM
Yay! That's fantastic Anna!
Posted by: Belori | November 02, 2008 at 08:43 PM
love your house! I think it's beautiful :)
congrats!
Posted by: bjay | November 05, 2008 at 11:29 PM
Your house is lovely, Anna. Congrats, my friend!!!
Posted by: Sonja McLean | November 23, 2008 at 10:37 PM