Over the last couple of years it had become a realization that we would eventually need to purchase a larger home. Ours was just too small to be functional for our growing family (four girls, one bathroom....enough said!). Up until the end of may it was always, in two years... in five years.... next year.... but then we thought, why not now? The market is BOOMING here in Colorado, we need space NOW, and it means being more financially stable now and deeper into our future. We absolutely plan to move one more time in life, and that is it. The home we buy will be the home we stay in for the rest of our lives. So one day in late May we suddenly decided we were going to sell our house. My cousin, who is our realtor, came over and gave us our options. We could completely gut it and sell for the highest price, we could do some fixes and then sell, or we could sell as is. The most appealing and practical choice was to do some fixes ourselves and then put our house on the market. So over the next month and a half C and I spent countless hours fixing up the house. We painted (inside and out), we changed the doors, we did yard work, we did dry wall repair, we did tile and grout repair. It was exhausting to say the least. With three children, you cannot just jump right in after work or on the weekends. So we spent our days doing fun activities and making memories with the girls and the spent the time after they went to bed at 8pm to the wee early hours of the morning doing all the work we could. We literally lived off red bull and coffee.
However, we have been finished for a little over two weeks now. We listed our home about then as well. We are still waiting for someone to fall in love with it as much as we are in love with it, so wish us luck! We cannot wait to start looking for our forever home. We are constantly on webpages searching and searching. Some characteristics that we are looking for in a home include:
• 4 bedrooms, but we will take 3 if there is an unfinished basement that allows us to add bedrooms down there at a later time.
• 2.5+ bathrooms
• Soaker tub in the master suite (I have a serious Lush addiction)
• Fireplace
• Simple yard, with a backyard the girls and us can enjoy
• Open concept with the kitchen open to the family room
Being move-in ready is probably the most important to us though. That isn't too much to ask right? We certainly got worn down too much with the renos we did in our current home to even think of having to do it all over again so soon.
We have decided to wait until we have finished selling our current home until we start to look for a new home, though. So many people ask us why we are doing this. There are a few reasons. One of them being the fact that it is super overwhelming trying to do it all at once. I am an anxious fool, waiting for this house to sell. I couldn't image adding the stress of finding a home, offering, inspections, etc. Another reason we are waiting is because we follow Dave Ramsey. If you haven't heard of him, Google him. We want to be debt free. By selling our home, we will have paid off every ounce of debt we have aside from student loans. That is huge for us. We definitely want to start living a lifestyle that does not revolve around credit, and this is allowing us to.
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