House on the Market-Crazy Times-Old House/New House News-Need to Take a Breath
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, 02-16-2019 at 09:57 PM (8189 Views)
OMG. What a whirlwind week. We finally did all we needed to do with the house. Photographer came on Tuesday and took the pictures for the listing. We went to a live listing on Wednesday around noon. We had 3 showings that afternoon. I think on Thursday we had about 7. By Thursday night we already had an offer above list price. Now we are sitting on 3 above list price. And several agents who are calling and texting with our realtor whose clients want to make an offer and are asking what they can do to make their offers better as they know we are already into multiple offers. We had about 7 showings on Friday and today I think there were 8. We have more already scheduled for tomorrow.
When we came home today after the last showing I found an envelope on the counter addressed to my hubby and I. It was a really nice handwritten note from one of our offers with a $20 Starbucks gift card inside. They told us a bit about themselves, what they loved about our house & why they wanted it, and that they really hoped we would accept our offer. We were blown away. I made a joke to my hubby that our house was like the pretty girl at the dance. LOL.
So all realtors are now aware that we are in multiple offer stage so if their clients want to make an offer they need to have it in by Thursday. So we will have a meeting on Tuesday at 4 with our realtor to go over the offers and make a decision. I never imagined in my wildest dreams that this would happen at all. I was worried that we would not get offers. Worried that people would try to make lower offers than we listed the house. Worried that it would take too long to sell. Never thought in a million years it was going to be so fast with so much interest and people trying to outbid each other.
So, hopefully when this is all done we will be able to relax some. And on another high note, our foundation was poured on Friday for our new house. I feel like I am winning the lottery. Great day.