We have had our house for sale by owner for four weeks now. It has been a big strain because we hoped for a quick sale and even thought we had it sold a few weeks ago only to have the buyers back out after 24 hours. Last Thursday I arranged for two [...]

It is great to have high speed Internet again after being without it for over a week. We are settling in nicely here in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We all really like this location and we are enjoying the many conveniences such as tons of places to shop for groceries and other [...]

It seems that yesterday was too good to be true. Sigh. This a.m. we received a call from the prospective buyers of our house. After signing an agreement and giving us earnest money, the couple had gone home to figure out their budget and unfortunately came to the conclusion that they couldn’t [...]

Well, it looks like our prayers have been answered. Today we signed an agreement to sell our house to a local family. They need to figure out financing and because they already own a house, they will need to rent or sell it before buying ours. So it isn’t 100% certain but [...]

The past few days have been pretty calm, which is a welcome change. Only a week to go before we move house. We’re waiting for our appraisal before contacting some of the people who’ve looked at the house with a firmer idea of an asking price. Last night a local real estate [...]

The past 24 hours have been very grueling. We had tons of things to do to get the house ready to show and we had several showings scheduled for today. I also had scheduled an appraisal for this a.m. Fortunately (with very little sleep) we accomplished most of the things we needed [...]