Thursday, April 24, 2008

Face the CH-CH-CH-changes

I have lived in the same house for the last 9 years. It is in the same little town I grew up in and vowed to leave once I was of age yet chose to come back to when I found out I had a bun in the oven. To put even more emphasis on my house: my maternal grandfather lived in it for a period when he was in his teens and my father was raised, from birth, in this house. I love my house and vowed I would never leave it. It sits on a WHOLE acre of land that houses my various farm animals, has 12+ mature fruit trees and an ungodly amount of mature "other" trees. Yet, it has only 1 bathroom and I am the only female in the place. My little family has outgrown it and as sad as I will be to leave we need to, oh, and one other little thing: we would be COMPLETELY out of debt if we sold it and built elsewhere. I have pretty much gotten over the initial mourning and I know it will return if/when we move and now I am hearing that we may not be able to move because of some jack ass new ordinance the county made regarding the houses built on family farms (which is where we have land: Jesse's family farm). I have been dropped off of my shiny little optimistic and excited cloud. Now I'm being overly pessimistic, it has not proven to be impossible Jesse still needs to look further into it (and he's not moving as fast as I want because when I want something I wanted it yesterday, I'm impatient once I have set my mind on something). I've been looking at floor plans and pretty much decided on what I want. Now I have to get my house and yard in selling shape. This is where you come in. Many of you have recently moved/sold homes what do I do to prep my house so that people will immediately fall in love and buy it? Then, what is the best way to approach the whole pack and move shit to storage so you can live in a small rental for a couple of months? Help me, I've never done this before, Jesse and I went from our newly wed rental to this house so we didn't own much at the time. Please comment.

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