An Offer and a Letdown

I'm finding selling our home to be quite stressful, and it's been less than a week. First, there are still a few improvements to make; I look around and can see how it can still be more perfect and second guess our asking price. Then I'm stressing about whether we'll get showings. We listed Friday and Monday had three showings though! Then there's keeping it clean enough so that each time there's a showing, I don't have as much cleaning and picking up to do. I'm probably going a little overboard with all the things in hiding - necessary for the photographer but prob not for every showing. But still, I don't really want to see someone's shampoo in the shower so why would someone want to see ours?

Today we already have an offer! They offered just about list price but want us to pay 3% in closing costs. So we increased the sale price by about 3% in a counter offer. Now we're waiting to hear and I feel even more stressed somehow. What if they change their mind? What if we don't appraise out at that price??

But we just found out some guy last night talked to our next door neighbor. Was that who made the offer today? And tonight a younger couple knocked on the door to ask Matt if they could back their car with a trailer up the driveway to see if it would scrape. Are they the ones weighing the counter offer? Or did they look yesterday and are considering offering? Or are they coming tomorrow to look? Mystery... I did ask with our counter, if they accept, I want to know what they like best about this house. It's been such a labor of love over these four years, and I 100% always thought about selling and what a new owner would think and appreciate. I have to know ;)

But... another showing tomorrow or maybe two. It's hard to be gone when I'm also carting a baby and two dogs. By myself, I could just go to a coffee shop and continue with my work day. Luckily my parents' house is always open :)

As far as where we're going, by July 26th apparently if they accept our counter, that remains to be discovered. We looked at a really beautiful craftsman home in a kinda cool neighborhood; all the houses face a central park. Seemed like there's a real community, and kids riding bikes everywhere. We were looking at probably the best situated house in the neighborhood on a corner; it had the most privacy and a decent enough yard but also looked out onto the grassy lot of the park. Matt and I could both see Carsen and us growing there. But... the living room was about the size we have now and it was 3 bedrooms like we have now (though each a bit larger), 1970ish sq ft is all, and no family room/den/office/loft/bonus room, which was my main complaint about our current home. Plus I'm really attracted to living right on the neighborhood park but would we really like it? We didn't have to figure that out; maybe it was divine intervention; we were going to look a second time this afternoon but found out the sellers just accepted an offer this morning. Wow. Right as we were getting an offer too. Oh well, I said, it must be because something more fitting is out there, or about to be, but Matt was a bit crushed. That was the first house we both liked and could really see ourselves in; something about it was really special and felt a little like home. Now we just need to find that feeling again, with more sq ftage & a family room/den/loft/bonus room & a yard Carsen can run through :)