"Once upon a time, a King and Queen made a quick decision to buy a castle For Sale By Owner, move their family of seven in just 10 days, all the while trying to fix up their old house to rent, and fix up the new house to live in. They accomplished what they had set out to do, barely holding onto their sanity by a thread. Because they had downsized and lived in a tiny castle for so long, they didn't have much to move, but it was still quite a daunting task. But the King and Queen were excited for the new adventure, and jumped into cleaning, organizing, and fixing up their new, larger castle with fervor.
One night, mere days after they moved in, the King had a crazy idea to put a Make Me Move price on Zillow.com. It was an outrageous price, one that he would love to have but didn't expect. He told the Queen about it. They laughed about the ridiculousness of it all. Life was good in the land for six months.
Friday afternoon, a knock was answered by one of the Princes of the castle. "I am a realtor that has clients that would like to see your home. They saw your Make Me Move on Zillow.com. Could we come tomorrow afternoon?" And the whirlwind of the weekend began. You see, the King had gotten a request from someone that very morning, asking if they could come, so the King thought that they were the ones that had the realtor. Since it was such a high price the King had put on the house, the Queen decided to ready the castle for a showing to make the King happy, all the while feeling like this was such a surreal situation. Six months. Six months was all she had lived from the last frantic move, and now she was readying her home to show after spending most of the previous week inside with the kids for Snow Days.
The client and her father came to look at the house on Saturday afternoon. They were not the clients that had the realtor, they had happened upon Zillow.com much by accident. That meant that they had two people interested in their castle! This was no jesting matter. They stayed for 10 minutes and left. The King, seeing that things were getting real, took the Make Me Move offer off of the website and told his Queen that he thought that was the end of that, thanking her for going along with it, and apologizing for putting her through an entire day of extreme anxiety. The King had told the woman that his Queen would be a hard sell, that she didn't want to move, and that he never thought anyone would actually take his castle price seriously. He thought he had warned them off for good.
Two hours later, she said she was seriously interested, that she would like to show her husband the castle, and asked if they could come back on Sunday. The Queen was ready to run. She could logically see that getting that much money, so soon after buying, was a great return on an investment. But she is tired. She loves this new house. She has ideas for improvements that she wants to see come to life. She is tired. She wants easy when life can be easy. She wants to make her King happy by making money so "easily." So she talked to herself a lot over those few hours, slowly coming to terms that this may be real. It took a while, but she has finally come to terms. Sunday night, the King said, "Honey, I'm sorry I might have accidentally sold our house."
Monday, while the buyers were talking with their lender after giving a verbal offer the previous night, the King and Queen were looking for a new castle to buy, if this really does go through. They think they may have found one. Some people that they know (the ones that gave the Queen the delicious Big Hunk) happen to be moving in just a few short weeks back to Tennessee. They would sell to the King and Queen at a very reasonable price, giving the King a massive shop and a 1/2 acre of land, while giving the Queen enough bedrooms for her Princes and Princesses to continue having their current room situations. It would be a blessing for all, should our Heavenly Father see fit for the King and Queen to actually sell after just six months."
My brain is tired, so we'll end the story there for now. We'll pick back up once we hear word whether this will really happen. The bank has approved them. We should hear word whether it will go under contract this week. Friday, we had no plans for the weekend. Sunday, we may have sold a home we weren't even really trying or meaning to sell. Surreal.
Randy had mentioned that we were changing the hinges from Gold to Brushed Nickel and adding handles to the cabinets soon. Since I had envisioned handles on the cabinets almost immediately, and not wanting to put them on for others without enjoying them, we decided to go ahead and do that project last night.
If this surreal situation falls through, I will be happy to stay. I am not ready to be done remodeling this kitchen/house! If it actually does go through, I will be happy moving to a new, bigger home. It just feels so weird. We may be moving soon because someone is willing to pay us top dollar for a home that still has work to be done. After looking at homes online and in person, we can see why they want ours-- the market is seriously lacking!
Life is so weird for us right now, I can barely keep up!
I was calling about this exact post! I'm glad you wrote more about it. ❤️❤️
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