Category: Texas house

We accepted an offer on our house here in Virginia today. We were euphoric for a bit, then relieved, because the market is not so good for sellers for our kind of house and price range, now we are kind of wiped out, but excited to get start with the move. I have talked to the insurance agent, made arrangements for movers to come out and give us estimates, and started looking for apartments where we can hole up long enough for the house to get built. God willing, we will be living in Texas by the end of July.

This month has been a roller coaster. We have been up and down with all the stuff we are doing and the lives of the kids. Things are starting to level out now with a to-do list that is growing and has some finite end-points. An agenda of things to do to work toward a finite end has a stabilizing effect on me. It even helps me with my normal day-to-day work that I would be doing even if I did not have some big goal in front of me. Lorena is the same way. We have two showing and an open house between now and Sunday. We might not sell the house, but there seems to be continuing interest in the house. The moment it sells, then we are on a good path to something stable that allows us to start doing some other things projects we love to do. Beside the move, both Lorena and I truly want to maintain our current Bible study schedules, workouts, and diets. I want to accomplish the next GaugeCam goals. And we want to visit family in Mexico and Oregon very soon. All, God willing.

It has been 47 days now and our house has not sold yet. We have lowered the price and are having open houses as frequently as is reasonable as long as people show up. We have tweaked everything we know how to tweak, but there are no bites yet. Just now, I just worked the verbiage that goes out onto the different websites–not sure that will help, but we will see what happens. We might have to stay here for another year. That really will not be so bad financially, but the rub is that we are really ready to get back to Texas and settle in for the long haul.

I did a pretty good render of the front of the house we want to build, God willing.

We got the report back from our house showing last Friday and from two people who came to the open house on Sunday afternoon. The people on Friday loved the house, but the living room was smaller than they expected. The two on Sunday were both work-from-home couples and were worried about the fact that all we have is StarLink for broadband internet. We were relieved that the issues were fundamentally different from the first four or five visitors who all thought the house is to close to a main road (it is not). It was a nice reminder that there are a lot of things that influence buyers over which we have no control, but that it only takes one to pull the trigger. That one is harder to find when the market conditions are not optimal with high interest rates right now. In the end, it really just takes patience. We have been very fortunate in the houses we have sold over the years, only Albany, Oregon took us longer than a couple of months and that eventually sold when we were not expecting it. So, we have decided we just need to be patient. It is all in God’s hands. We cannot start the Texas house until this house sells and that is OK. We actually love living here.