We’ve got buyers! (For the old house.) They did a walk-through (and crawl-through underneath) a couple weeks ago, and they were not fazed by anything they found. The house isn’t perfect, that’s for sure, but the buyers have lots of skills and experience, so they see potential everywhere. They have been pre-approved for a loan, accepted our seller’s offer immediately after we sent it, deposited earnest money into escrow, and are chomping at the bit (just like we are) to make this happen. Yesterday we filled out a seller’s disclosure form, and within the next few days there will be an appraisal, which was requested by the lender. If all goes well, we’ll be done with the old place and it will have new owners very soon!
Meanwhile we’re still absolutely loving our new place, and the cats are too. We wake up every morning amazed that we get to live in such an awesome house, and we’ve been sitting in the living room in the dark sipping coffee for about a half hour as the sky lightens through the big windows, before we turn on our computers.
I’ve been sorting through my hastily packed moving boxes, getting various spaces more liveable and workable—the Office, the Bunker-Chamber, and the Family Room—which also serves as the band room, the radio station studio, the dance/excercise room, and the future jigsaw puzzle and TV watching room. Speaking of band, we had our first Swarm at this address last Sunday, and the new digs worked great: lelu and I played downstairs and partied with Mrs. Random afterwards upstairs.
We talked about a band-name reveal coming soon. Well, we actually talked about letting it slip casually in conversation.