March - October 2014

Ok so March was when Jason and I placed the house we are currently living in on the market!!
It's been a rough PROCESS to put it politely :/
What a HUGE effort. We decided on an agent, and well every saturday we held the open for inspections. Pretty much every week getting ppl walking through which was great! BUT there just wasnt any bites. When we finally had an offer made, it just wasn't what we wanted, therefore we declined of course. We kept being positive, and figured it would sell soon. Afterall, that's what the agent had told us from day 1.
IT WONT TAKE LONG TO SELL
Well it get's to August and we have an offer, so we decide to take it, it's not exactly what we wanted but we figured it would be time to take the offer and move on!
We have our 2 weeks wait for finance from the buyer to be approved, well then they ask for 1 week extension, we of course agree to that and give them more time to get their finances sorted with the banks.
Only to get a call 2 hours before the deadline from the real estate agents saying that the buyers finance has indeed been DECLINED!! yep, sale had fallen through :( We were very upset, I was in tears! We had waited sooooo long for our home to sell gave the extra week and had noone else through the home for that time, as we had assumed it was sold! To be devastated with this news that we were thrown back to square 1 :(

Really this is our luck!! Seems something always happens lol.
So we are put back onto the market and continue with the mundane open houses every saturday and the phone calls every few days, that someone is interested in "looking" at our home, only for Jason and I and the kids ;) to clean and tidy our home, drop everything so to speak. For strangers to come into our home, for them to say "it's too small", "there's not enough car spaces"
Well let me tell you IT GOT OLD FAST!!!

 Ok so then we get to couple weeks later for myself to receive a call from an agent (same agents office we were currently with) for this new guy to say that the agent that was dealing with the sale of our house was incompetent and our house should have been sold months ago!! YEP our thoughts too, but anyway.
This new agent guy had informed us he's taking over the agent/s office and that he had brought the franchise now.
Hmmm, new agent met with us ASAP and arranged new pics of the house, a floor plan for our home as we hadn't got one in the old agents marketing.
This new agent seemed eager, enthusiastic and very professional! Our luck was changing.
Let me tell you it sure did change, he had then sold our home in 3 weeks!!! :)

YES we had an offer, from an open house we held one Saturday then 2 days later the guy brought his wife through. They had signed the contracts, and we did and it was a done deal. Best part was they were purchasing the home as a rental property, therefore allowing us to stay on as their renters. ^ months minimum rent then month by month there after. Worked out perfect for us. We are building we don't know when the house will be built!

Settlement is 30 days so as of the 7th of November 2014, we no longer own our home and are renters!!



Now we can look on to the future, and plan our build of our dream home!!