Our house is no longer ours; we signed the offer sheet tonight, and as of the 25th of September we'll no longer be legal residents of Ontario. Off to the East Coast!
It's been an insane roller-coaster of a ride for the past month. We started seriously discussing a potential move about a week into August. We looked at some potential properties (online; we can't travel to the Maritimes until we're actually residents) and found the perfect home, half an hour from where I was born. We put in our offer, and it was accepted. So, we had to sell our own house, and fast. We brought in the real estate agent, told him what we needed to do, and he told us just how much work we would have to do to get the house ready.
We did it, in ten days. The house was nearly empty, staged like something out of a YouTube video and ready to show. When he came back to see us and take pictures of the house, his jaw dropped before he even got out of the truck; he couldn't believe we'd actually gotten it done.
So, we moved out temporarily and went camping while our house was on display for a week. It was tense for a while; we had no offers despite our agent's assurances that it was a seller's market and we could expect a bidding war. It didn't happen, but we did get a fair offer that met our needs and those of the buyer. We reviews the offers we did get tonight, and picked the best one.
Now we've got twenty-six days to sort through all the stuff we have and decide what we're going to keep and what's going to be sold or given away before we leave. Since we are back home, I've got regular internet access back, so the blogging will continue. I won't go into a lot of detail about how our preparations are going; I'll save that for when it's time for us to leave.
My wife has already informed me that this will be our last move; the stress of the past month has been almost unbearable, but we made it this far. We'll get the rest of the way as well.
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