Selling your home...

**Sigh**

Where do I even start. I need to vent.

I hate it when my parents decide to sell the house. We are doing it again...and we are going on our 6th week of being on the market. Usually my parent move every 4-5 years and bank about 200,000-300,000 each time. This time, we have lived here almost nine years and we are looking to bank about 600,000 to 700,000 this time around. It's been tough though...

I hate open houses. It forces me to keep my room clean each day and to make my bed every morning because you never know when someone is coming to check out the house. I have to hide everything that is of some worth to me so no one will steal it...(i.e. hide all wii games, controllers, lap tops, computers, etc.). If we are going to have a open house (like we have had for 6 weeks straight), it forces me to waste one day of my two days off to clean the house so it is immaculate for the open house. Grrr...

Then you have to find something to do during those 5 hours that the open house is going on. It gets so boring...you can only go to the movies so many times. Then there are the realtors that show up with their clients the moment you get home after work and don't even tell you they are bringing a client.

Then there are the bogus offers. There is a reason why we have $1,270,000 FIRM on the listing. Don't give us a low ball offer of one million and expect us to take it (at least not right now). Now there is an executive from Black and Decker (one of our big competitors at work...so every time she comes over, I have to hide all my work stuff as well...sigh)....back to this lady...she is being transferred from North Carolina and wants to make a offer on our home but has 2 other homes on her list too. So we are anticipating on getting another offer this week. I am praying that we get the offer and not the other homes. And please lady, offer somewhere around 1.27. So this misery can stop and I can go find my new home.

The plus side to all this though is the following:

A) we get to start a new adventure
B) mom and I get to design a whole new home
C) I get to design my new bedroom (yay)
D) there is a chance that we can rent a beach house during the summer this year. Dad is open to the thought of renting a place on balboa island until we find the right home.
E) the next home might be a flipper...which means that if the next house is crap...we might move out of soon.

We looked at a home in Foothill Ranch today during our open house. The house was a foreclosure and bank owned. It had potential to be worked on and flipped. It was kind of exciting to actually look at homes. The rat turds in the carpet was a nice added touch to the house...just lovely. Let's just say, if we do eventually buy that home, we need to get a rat exterminator before we move in.

We had 43 people look at the house this week. 3 sets of couples came back more than once. 2 came back twice. And the Black and Decker lady came with her husband 3 times and spent 2 hours each time in our house. Buy the damn house people!!!

The market is definitely picking up. All I have to say is that we need to sell this bad boy soon or I am going to go nutty!

I will keep you all posted...especially if we get an offer this week!!