by  Jen   

That’s going to be my slogan for the next 12 months: There’s So Much To Do in 2022! Everything seems to be one hot mess right now! Things were going pretty good and for some reason, everything seems to have spun out of control in the last two weeks. Adult kids with covid, new grandbaby

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by  Jen   

An empty house can be kind of boring actually. Like really boring. Especially when you have three weeks to wait. Maybe that’s why we have so much in the first place. But I didn’t have to worry about boredom because boredom didn’t last long because I can never catch a break. A new problem had

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by  Jen   

We were thrilled that we had gotten an offer on the house. While everyone else in the area was getting offers over their asking price, we were happy that ours came in right at the asking price. We had lowered our price $10,000 from the previous weekend in hopes of getting a quick sale. While

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by  Jen   

For the past three decades, the Waukesha Christmas parade has been a part of my family’s lives. A really big part. If the kids weren’t in the parade, which was over half of those years, then we were there watching. When you hear people on the news say that Waukesha is a very tight knit

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by  Jen   

I was determined to make the second weekend of showings better than the first. I had to or we wouldn’t be getting the house we were hoping to buy. We were down to the wire, things weren’t looking good, the realtor was very worried, the road construction was making everything impossible, and every one of

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by  Jen   

The first weekend of showings didn’t go well. The whole weekend went by with no offers on the table. It was very disappointing. During the week, we had more showings than we were expecting. Every time someone was coming over, we had to pack up all the cats and find someplace to go with them

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by  Jen   

After all the hard work to get the house ready to sell, I wasn’t ready for the comments that came out of peoples’ mouths during the showings. I didn’t realize that thick skin was a requirement. Even though I knew the house wasn’t in the greatest condition, it was the best it had looked in

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