Thursday, February 1, 2007

The Frenzy Has Begun

Now that we're a month into 2007 and the New England real estate market will heat up in the next month or so, Air Boss and I have started the whole home selling process. Before we really even started, I began feeling the anxiety level in me rising.

"Okay, what do we need to do?" I would ask myself and Air Boss as if we're in a weekly department meeting. "How are we tracking against our schedule? Are we meeting our critical milestones?"

Interview realtors and their agencies: check
At least three: check
Pick seller broker: nope (I hate telling people bad news)
Determine list price: check---weellll, almost check
Clean and organize basement: check
Purge house of "stuff": in progress (just donated close to 100 books to Salvation Army)
Stage house for photos: in progress (trying to beg, borrow and steal needed pieces of furniture)
Tell kids we're moving: check ('Shroom and Lolli are excited)
Tell kids someone will be buying our house: check (Lolli almost started crying at the thought of leaving "my green house" . . . a surprisingly sad moment)

Anyway, the list goes on and on. I am quickly learning what it takes to get an asbestos abatement team to remove all traces of asbestos in our basement (gotta love these old turn-of-the-century New England homes) and smash and remove our "snowman" (for those of you with nice modern forced hot-air furnaces or even hot water boilers, a snowman looks like an asbestos-wrapped igloo - much like a half-melted snowman).

No doubt - I'll be learning a lot in this whole process. I'll check back in with next week's department meeting "progress report."

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