if you've tried to or have sold your house..

[zarapipe]

We're you ever just over it?

Ours has only been on the market for 6 weeks or so but I'm already over it. We have a showing tomorrow that someone just booked and when I was talking to the company that books the appointments I almost wanted to say no

I'm sick of cleaning and cleaning and hiding stuff everywhere. I keep thinking that living here in a small house with a long commute isn't "that" bad and we will survive. Of course we can, but I'm just over it. Too tired for this shit. If it's not sold soon I may go crazy or take it off for a while.

And of course this isn't my pregnancy mood talking

[egishere]

Yes it was horrible. We had to put ours on the market when my kids were 5 months old due to a job relocation. We ended up moving and buying another house before ours sold because we couldn't deal any longer. It only worked out financially since my DH's company was footing the bill.. Never again!

[Marmee]

Well I sold house 1 when pg & with a 1yr old myself. It would have killed me had it drug on for weeks/months. I was in control since I FSBO it & the 1st people that looked at it bought it...super lucky!!

House 2 we rented out while still living there. It was stressful since by then I had 3 kids. I did it myself & made anyone interested in renting it come to an "open house" on a Saturday. Again 1 day & it was done.

I cannot imagine the hell it is to have it languishing on the market for weeks..I suck at maintaining cleanliness, but I can get my house sparkling & gorgeous for 1 day...lol.

[dutchgirl678]

We just sold our house. We were lucky that it took less than 30 days but we had more than 20 showings before then! It definitely got old, especially since I work from home. And sometimes I would get a last-minute call 15 minutes before they wanted to show.

[speyedr]

We just sold our first house with a 4 month old at home. We put it on the market the first day of a week away visiting family so we wouldn't be around for showings the whole first week. We got lucky and sold day #1 on MLS. I would have died trying to get DD out of the house for showings all the time.

Good luck, I hope it doesn't take too much longer!

[caramia17]

We just sold our first house with a 3 year old and I am so sick of cleaning and being exiled from my house and generally feeling stressed/on edge.

It sucks. My only advice is to drink heavily.

[bunch]

It's terrible, but it's the cleanest my house has ever been. Moving while pg is also pretty terrible

[bowies]

I only sold one house - when my XH decided not to adhere to our divorce settlement and buy me out. That was a contentious time and wouldn't recommend it.

The buyers got a helluva deal.

[212]

Moving is the fucking worst.

The end.

[degal99]

When we sold our house it took a couple of months and sucked since we were living in it and had rent and a mortgage to pay. We were so happy when it sold.

[hski2349]

We had our condo on the market for about 90 days and that was from the time I was about 7 months pregnant to DD being 1 month. It was annoying. But I just kept looking at the end game. I am not sure what the worse part was. Sometime people would have appointments and I would drive to the park go for a walk and then just park and wait outside the condo and wait for them to come, and leave.

I hated it. Selling sucks.

[redheadk]

Yes, being on the market sucks. We were very lucky, our market is a sellers market and moves quickly but we put SO much stuff into storage that we had to get a second unit. It helped a lot.

[ktw]

Ours has been on the market for 3 months as of yesterday, no offers yet. It sucks, I hate it. I don't mind as much when I'm actually doing the cleaning because I'm motivated by the idea that we might get an offer. But then after when we get, "They absolutely loved the house but..." and no offer, I get so frustrated.

[bbonanza]

We put ours on the market when DD1 was just about three and DD2 was just turning 1. We put it up beginning of Nov and finally accepted an offer in March.

It was not fun with two little ones underfoot, keeping the house clean, especially during the winter months. We also had DD2's first bday in the middle of it all. It was stressful and I so don't want to go through it again, not with three now and with everything that we've accumulated in the years since we moved!

[MadamePresident]

We sold our condo when Nods was about 6 months old. I was really lucky because we had friends in the neighborhood that so I just went over to their house when we had a showing. We actually lived with them for 4 months when our new house was being built. It was fun, but weird to live in a different house in your same neighborhood. We had to drive by the old place on our way home and would be like "oh they got a wreath for the door".

[kaycee]

When our house was on the market I got the worst 24 hour flu of my life. I was in the bathroom or sleeping all day. At like 6pm we got a call for a showing. I told my husband to say yes. We went and got me a Jamba Juice because I needed some nutrition. It was then I realized how terrible being on the market was.

They ended up buying our house.

[Velar Fricative]

We had good luck when we found a buyer a few weeks ago BUT we tried to sell this apartment 5 years ago and no luck the entire 6 months it was on the market. It was awful and I hated every minute of it. Selling is just the worst, as is moving. I told DH that our next home is our forever home, or at least our really-long-long-time home. I have no desire to buy/sell for many years to come. I hope you get a buyer soon!

[mcfelix]

This is a great thread to read when our house is going on the market tomorrow. Lol! Hoping it sells fast... I am already having some anxiety about keeping the house perfectly organized all the time. My husband, on the other hand, is downright giddy that he won't have to nag me to clean up after myself!

[sjh722]

Jul 31, 2014 22:44:33 GMT -5 mcfelix said:

This is a great thread to read when our house is going on the market tomorrow. Lol! Hoping it sells fast... I am already having some anxiety about keeping the house perfectly organized all the time. My husband, on the other hand, is downright giddy that he won't have to nag me to clean up after myself!

I would just take a laundry basket or shopping bag and throw all the random clutter I didn't want to deal with RIGHT THEN into the basket and put it in the trunk of my car. 

It's a pain, and last time we moved we only had a dog!

[drloretta]

We were relocating, so we weren't there half the time. But we still had to get a storage unit to declutter, and the in between states situation sucked.