by  Jen   

While it’s not cheap, getting a dumpster is the way to go if you have a lot to get rid of. I don’t know what we would’ve done without it. The day that our garbage was picked up, the can was full again. The city dump is only open on Saturday and Wednesday and it’s

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by  Jen   

The listing deadline that the realtor gave us at first was a joke. For some reason, he thought I’d be able to have it all done in a week. After a week, it was obvious to everyone that we weren’t going to meet his extreme listing deadline. I knew that we didn’t have long but

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by  Jen   

Every day of the house preparation brought new challenges. First it was the cleaning lady that wouldn’t clean and next it was the painter who didn’t really want to paint. He was a friend who had painted for me before. He used to do entire rooms for me and would only charge me $50. Well,

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by  Jen   

Getting an accepted offer really turned out to be the easy part. The hard part was getting our house ready to sell. It wasn’t just hard, it was an extremely insane type of hard. Once the kitchen was emptied out, I decided to start upstairs and work my way down. It’s really difficult to describe

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by  Jen   

Everyone thought that the news that they accepted our offer was exciting but I was a little hesitant. It meant that I would have less than two weeks to finish emptying our house out. When I say “I” that’s exactly what I mean. I knew that as soon as it came down to it, everyone

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by  Jen   

After a few long days of waiting for the news, we would find out if the offer we put in was good enough. One of the things that came up on the inspection was a leak in the furnace. I think that was enough to scare a lot of people away but we put in

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by  Jen   

When you’re waiting for an important decision to be made, the waiting is hard! It was a good thing that I was crazy busy with work and family. Easter was right around the corner too. As usual, the baskets were buried somewhere in the mess so I would spend some time looking for those. I

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