Location, Location, Location (Selling Our House)

During the past 3-4 years, the street we live on has experienced some unusual, unique behaviors.  Our neighbors have moved to different houses on our same street.  The house directly to our east was rebuilt by the family that now lives a few houses to our west.  They sold the rebuilt house to our neighbors who used to live across the street, a couple of houses down. Neighbors across the street moved two houses up while they made changes to their house and plan to move back.  Another neighbor across the street bought the house across the street from them and are renting it out.  It is a strange phenomenon that we figured may be to our advantage when we decided to sell our house.

Well, that time has come and, with the history of neighbors buying within our same street, we decided that letting our neighbors know by word of mouth may be a feasible option.  Within one week of spreading the news, we were showing our house to a family who lives around the corner and within 36 hours accepted their offer without ever listing our house. 

Now, their purchase is contingent upon them selling their house, but within one weekend of them listing their house, they had accepted an offer on it.  If all goes well, we will close on our land and then close on our Salt Lake house within ten days afterwards.

I've often experienced big decisions in my life seemingly being orchestrated by a power beyond my control and this seems to be following suit. The pieces feel a bit out of order, but I'll take this bumpy ride if it lands me in a comfortable house on that beautiful Uintah property I wrote about on my previous entry.

What's Up With Me

So many months without posting, what's up with that?  Well, there is a reason... Brenda and I have embarked on an unexpected adventure.  We were talking during our drive home from yet another Ironman event, and discovered deep seeded desires which helped us consider the reality of selling our house in Salt Lake, where we have lived almost nineteen years.  We realized it was time to start the next chapter of our lives.

It seems like decisions of this magnitude should take time to come to fruition, but not in our case.  Fourteen days after talking about this possibility, we found ourselves needing a distraction when our Labrador was in the doggie hospital overnight (all is well, that's a post all in itself).  We took a drive to look at a few lots for sale in the Wasatch Back area and happened upon one that we both loved and another that we really liked.  We set up an appointment with the realtor to officially "see" both properties and six days after that put an offer on the lot we both loved.  This was less than one month after we talked about the possibility of making a change.  Then, the day after our offer, we accepted the seller's counteroffer and went under contract for a 4-acre, beautifully fenced lot at the base of the Uintah mountains.  We are preparing and hoping for an official closing in a few weeks.  My how things change.