So I know in my last post, I made a cheeky comment about the realtor and my penguin. I stand by those comments! But I just have to say, our realtor is pretty darn awesome.
Not only did she manage a ton of repairs while we are on vacation in early August to get the house ready to list, she also continues to manage so much after we moved to Indianapolis. AND all of our hard work paid off… Six offers came in on day 1. DAY 1! Five of them were over our asking price. Some significantly! Considering we got a killer deal on the house in the first place (PSA: When buying a house, always always always make sure you have an home appraisal contingency…when we bought the house, it appraised significantly lower than what we were going to buy it for, and because of that, we had almost $30k taken off the buying price). The offer we ended up accepting did not have an appraisal rider, and I feel like if they did, we would not have made that much money…
I digress… we now just have to wait and see what inspection comes back with and then hopefully we will be set to go.
Shout out to Colleen Reisenbichler at John Jackson Realty in St. Louis. She rocks!
Unfortunately, I have no idea if there was a sold sign on our house as we had already moved by the time it actually sold, so here. 🙂
Update: Colleen still rocks, but our buyers do not! The inspection process was extremely rough… they were quite unrealistic in their expectations, but I guess that’s what you are when you overpay for a house? Unfortunately there was a language barrier issue, so even their realtor was frustrated with them at the end. Up until an hour before closing, we didn’t think they were going to go! All because they were angry that we took our bathroom cabinet. Oh… and the fact that somehow we ended up with a gas leak the day before closing so the gas company turned off the gas. Such lovely timing. But ultimately the house closed on time. Thank goodness cause it closed three days before we left the country!!
The adventure can now begin!
