Things are going our way

I don't want to jinx anything, so I am not going to go into too much detail.  We got our buyout offer from the relocation company a couple of weeks ago and it was horrible.  In a last ditch effort to get our house sold outright, we lowered the price to just what we wanted to get (just over what we bought for 2.5 years ago).  This created a huge amount of interest and a ton of showings.  The girls and I have been crazy busy over the last two weeks.  The poor girls have been put through the ringer, for sure.  Showings that ended up being scheduled during nap time, getting in and out of the house so much for multilple showings on the same days, etc.  Not to mention all the work that is required of me to keep a house with two dogs and two kids clean and show ready. 

In the end...it was all worth it.  We went into a multiple bidding situation (3 to be exact) and got an offer over asking price!  It is still early, the offer is with the relocation company for review and (hopefully) approval, buyers want to do just a general inspection since the relocation company did all the major ones, so it is not 100% done.  I just hesitate to get my hopes up too much, but this is huge.  The buyers are relocating from Georgia and work for GE so they are using the same relocation company.  So hopefully that is to our benefit too.  This is a solid offer, so I will think positive! 

We won't need to bring any cash to our closing in PA.  We got exactly what we wanted and expected to get when we first put our house on the market.  Go Christine (our awesome and extremely smart realtor)!!!!  We feel like our luck finally changed. We are so pleased with the home we found in PA and think it will be a wonderfu house for us.  We will miss this house so much.  I hope the new owners will love it as much as I do.

Please keep us in your thoughts and hope that all continues to go well.  Ater over 5 months of nothing going our way, we are very grateful that it is turning out well for us.  Things happen for a reason, that is what I have told myself for this entire process. 

Anyway, after a very exhausting week last week, the girls and I were spent to the max.  This is what lots and lots of showings and many missed naps look like on my girls...