An offer

So we had an offer on the house yesterday and after much back and forth mom accepted the offer!
Now we wait, again. August 5th is the magic date.
Anyone know of a nice, larger, modern home in our area for sale?

Open House

So our first Open House was on a lovely sunny afternoon.

We went to see Wall*e and while we enjoyed the movie while the rest of the world had the opportunity to see the house.
The agent was happy with the turn out and he ran out of handouts!

Now we wait.

Yummy Pie!

For the second dessert in a row we had pie. Now what does this have to do with the house?

We can make good pie in our LARGE kitchen.
Both mom and I both bought blueberries today (we really must use that cell phone more often).

So I made a pie. More accurately I made the filling and then the top crust of the pie as mom had made and frozen a crust (we again are trying to use everything in the freezer).

MLS here we come!

It's another sunny day in Vancouver. A nice day for selling a house?
Our MLS number is: V725008

You can see what we are selling at the MLS listing is up at:
http://mlslink.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=1610874691&s=BRC&t=BRC

Norm's website has lots of pictures of the home too.

http://www.normflockhart.com/listings/details.aspx?l=54

The sign goes up!

Today was a very big day for the Moon Family! Norm, our agent, came over and mom signed lots

of paperwork to officially sell the house.

The add has already been published in a local reality paper with the Open House being advertised for this Sunday.

Today was also the day more photos were taken for digital purposes so the info can go up on different websites.

The most visible sign the house is up for sale is the for sale sign went up on the front lawn.
The big official wooden sign will go up later as it is installed by a professional company.

Date for the Open House

So the date has been set for an Open House.
It will be open for viewing on Sunday, July 27th from 3-5 pm.

When the MLS goes up I will add a post.

I guess we will go and see a movie during that time.

Sure it is..Aaaaah so easy!

So the day came to laod the temporary storage bin that had arrived at our house.

Louise mapped out with precision the way the bookcases and all the boxes would fit into the container.

I with my bad back went off to the Osteopath to be fixed and by the time I came home only 2 hours later the entire bin was completely done! It's a good thing I brought home lunch and some 'tim bits' as a treat.

Though the container was loaded the packing and disguising our remaining stuff continues.

Now we have to get ready to show the house. My bedroom is reorganised and it looks huge!

The living room is down to the tv, a sofa, two chairs and with the dining room area with table and chairs.

It's Sunday and we are taking a break today. Mom is at Bard on the Beach with a group from our church and Louise and I are off to help out with a tea to celebrate Heidi's mom's birthday.

Gallery of pictures from the Moving Sale

Roger mans the "Man Table"

Our dolls sold to a very cute little shopper!

Hangings for sale.

Jacquie says goodbye to a piece of kitchen equipment.

The Moving Sale

So on July 6th (we got rained out on July 5th) we had our Moving Sale.

Louise masterfully investigated how to have a successful yard sale on the internet and made some very professional signs (attaching balloons helps too).

At 10am (well okay we did let a few people buy before then) we started our sale. People came all day long. Roger was in charge of our "man table" and spent a very long time organizing the hundreds or nails, screws and other such items into jars.

Lots of neighbours came out and some who saw it listed on Craig's List came to see specific items.

Mom thinks we sold 95% of our stuff but I think it was closer to 85% but we were able to go out to WhiteSpot and enjoy dinner on some of our hard earned cash.

I still can't believe what people will buy. The leftovers we took to Value Village and the microwave from 1981 (in great working condition) we finally put on Craig's List.

Craig's List is amazing. Within three hours of listing our kitchen table and chairs we had a sale and the stuff was taken away. Since then we have sold: my old 5 disc CD player, a Finnish table and benches, an old metal armoire, and even our ping pong table that had been in the garage over 30 years! I think Louise's excellent and professional descriptions of the items have helped them get sold very quickly.

Introduction to the Move

Hello everyone!
This is the beginning of our odyssey of the GREAT MOVE from the house on Elgin Street.
We will try to keep this blog up-to-date as to let you know what's going on.
Today's first entry lets you see what has gone on so far.

In the beginning... we hired a Home Inspector: John Schiffer.
He works for Quality Home Inspections Ltd. http://www.qhi.ca/
He let us know that there were lots of little things that we would need to do to the home to bring it up to code. Our main issues throughout the house were to do with ventilation. This was no surprise to us but we really felt good about making a decision to move armed with empirical data.

The next thing to do was choose a realtor.
Mom and Louise interviewed three people and settled on Norm Flockhart. http://www.normflockhart.com/
He has lived in our neighbourhood and we really trust him to tell us what we needed to do to the house to get it ready for sale.

The next step, start to declutter and pack up anything we don't immediately need to have in the house. All those photo albums, the negatives, the many bookcases etc.
As we sorted through our mountains of stuff we had the "throw away" pile, the "donate" pile , the "sell at our Moving Sale" pile, the "keep in that room" pile and well you get the point!
Next...the Moving Sale!