Finally

It's official, the house is on the market! After talking about it for nearly a year and spending the past several months working to get to this point, we listed the house last Tuesday.

We had been planning to list it in early June when we met with our Realtor last February. We've spent a lot of hours, and money, trying to get it looking great. At the end of May it looked like the only major thing we were waiting on was having the master bathroom and outside trim painted. Our painters were able to get us in WAY ahead of schedule and finished up the day we listed. Everything looks great. There are still a few odds and ends I would have liked to have taken care of, but really all of the major stuff got done and that was what was most important.

And now the wait begins. Since listing it last week, we have had 3 showings over the weekend, a Realtor open house on Tuesday, and there are 3 more showings scheduled for tomorrow and an open house on Sunday. So far the feedback hasn't been much, "we're somewhat interested, but still looking", "Not the floor plan we were looking for", etc. Cheryl (our Realtor) said that the Realtor open house went well and there were no negative comments. Hopefully Cheryl will be able to work her magic one more time for us and get this sold fast - she had our last house under contract in less than a month during the summer that all the Pfizer people were leaving Ann Arbor.

We've also found an area in Cincinnati that we're going to focus our attention on. Chris and I went down there about 2 weeks ago while my mom was still in town to watch the kids. I met with our Realtor down there and saw 3 houses just to get an idea of the area and houses we were looking. I liked one of the houses a lot, but really didn't like the area very much. It just felt like a lot of separate subdivisions to make up the whole area. I didn't feel like there was much of a community there and after growing up in Ann Arbor I wanted that feeling. So after Chris and I finished with the Realtor we drove around the area we had originally been looking and LOVED it. Its called Anderson Township and its on the east side of Cincinnati. There are lots of hills and beautiful neighborhoods. Its only about 10-15 minutes from downtown and really felt like a nice community. I've been looking at houses online and have found a few that may work, but until we sell our house I'm trying to not get too attached to anything I look at.

Fingers crossed this all goes fast and smooth!