Homeless // Life Update

This is just a little life update...because I am constantly getting asked these days :)

Ok, so we're not living on the streets, but we are officially homeless.

Alan and I had been talking awhile about selling our house. We always just said we'd do it someday, when the time was right. Well after we had a big get together one weekend, and there was no room in our house for everyone to sit down, we decided the time was right and the day had come.

The next day we called a real estate agent and see if it was a good time to sell and what all needed to happen before the house could go on the market. It took us about 10 days to get the paperwork in order, photos taken, and get the house all ready. Thankfully there was nothing major we had to do, just some decluttering, cleaning, a little landscaping, and some touch up painting.

We knew the market was hot, it's a sellers market, and homes in our price range were selling like crazy, but we really didn't expect it to all happen so quickly.

We put our house on the market Thursday, June 9th. We accepted a full price offer, not even 24 hours later, on Thursday June 10th. We started packing and moving our stuff into storage in the following weeks. Then on Friday July 15th we signed closing papers and officially sold our house.

It's been a crazy, whirlwind of a month. Thank goodness for my mom and dad and for Alan's family, they helped us pack and move.

Everything went as smooth as possible and there weren't any hiccups along the way. Offer, earnest money, and letter of loan approval, check. Inspection, check. Appraisal, check. Final walk through, check. Closing documents, check. Funded and recorded, check. I gotta say, selling a house was way easier than buying one. Hopefully when the time comes for us to buy, everything will go just as smoothly.

I wish I could tell you that we were going to go on some amazing, exotic vacation with our earnings, but we're not. We are paying off debt and saving for a down payment. Yay for being an adult and being responsible and all that fun stuff, haha!

For now we are living with Dale, Alan's dad. We have our own room and plenty of space. I'm thankful that we all get along so well. I know it's not all that common for "in-laws & out-laws" to get along, so for that, I'm grateful that we are tight knit family.

We may not have our own home yet, but for now I keep repeating this quote, that I have written on a chalkboard in our room...Home is wherever I'm with you. Everything happens for a reason, and I know that this will all work out when it's supposed to and we will have a place to call our own again soon.

Thanks for stopping by and I will keep you all updated :) Have a sweet & wonderful day.