Living in a staged house is difficult. On Monday, our realtor and her team came in like a whirlwind, with a literal carload of staff: window treatments, objets d’art, rugs, even furniture. It’s disconcerting to have them instruct us to store most of our things to make the house look more empty, only to watch them fill it up with their stuff. We are trying to stay emotionally detached, but it is difficult. Also hard is the “non-Bareford” nature of the stuff: glass-topped coffee tables, ornately decorated tables and beds, a non-functional coffee pot to replace my real one, etc. The house is expected to stay like this until it sells!
We officially went on the market in the evening on Thursday, December 8th. By Friday evening we had booked 4 showings for the weekend and logged over 300 hits on our Zillow page! This is probably standard for houses and will assuredly taper off, but the chance exists that one of these buyers could like it and could want it very soon. A sobering prospect indeed! We also have a realtor open house on Tuesday.
It is impossible to know when the house will sell, and imprudent to stop everything until it does. We must trust the Lord and wait, knowing that He will work it out in His timing. There are so many things to coordinate for this move. Movers need to be contacted. Schools notified (and found in Washington). Melissa’s job transition to negotiate. Medical records to collect .Agencies and Sorenson to contact in Washington. The lists goes on and o. And to top it all off, my NIC test for national certification is one week from today!
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