Well, guys…We’ve got some news. But not the kind of news that you’ll particularly see me jumping for joy over. You see, we listed our house For Sale By Owner back in the beginning of the year, yet despite Zillow and Craigslist listings, a custom designed sign in the yard and a slew of pretty postcards mailed off to nearby neighborhoods and college campuses, we have naught to show for it. We’ve had two walk throughs and both were duds.
After all is said and done, and now with eight months of FSBO experience under our belts, this just isn’t working. Neither of us has the time to focus on marketing this place on our own, but we also don’t want to split our budget between a realtor’s fees and our dreams for House #2. At least not right now.
So we’ve decided to refocus our energies back into this little townhome of ours so that we can save, save, save for a realtor later on down the road. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’ve shared very few whole room updates on the blog because I haven’t felt like expending my creative energies on projects here when we just plan to move. And although I still don’t plan to do any heavy renovation, I CAN promise a few upgrades here and there (say goodbye to the carpet upstairs!) all in the name of a distant future resale.
Although I imagine the sign will stay out front and our Zillow listing will remain live so that we don’t risk losing a serendipitous offer, we will be learning to live in our current house again and hope you’ll stick around to see what we have up our sleeves. Thanks, as always, for following along and I hope we move past this limbo very, very soon!
Photo: Mallory Benedict
My husband and I were in this exact same predicament this past spring. We found the perfect house before we could sell our townhouse, which we had been trying to do for months. After a lot of debate, we decided to rent our townhouse using a property management company. While we lose money upfront each month, we will actually make money back on our taxes to cover those costs. We’ve been in this arrangement since July and so far so good! I would highly recommend it!
That’s wonderful advice! Thank you so much for sharing!! Fingers crossed that we work a situation out soon =)
Chin up butter cup. Everything happens for a reason. Maybe the perfect buyer just hasn’t come accross your little diamond. Just you watch, blessings will come when you least expect it.
Well, aren’t you sweet!!? Thank you so much for the pep talk…I appreciate it more than you know!
Sounds like a good move Carrie! And I’ll bet you fall in love with your townhouse all over again and the waiting to sell won’t seem so bad.
I sure hope so! Thanks for the support!!
Hope it all works out for you guys!
Thank you!
Oh no, I’m so sorry to hear that friend. I honestly can’t believe it either– if I had money, I’d snatch that beauty right up! Glad you’re going to make the most of the space while you still have it though. Can’t wait to see what you do!
Awwww…You are so sweet Rachel! Thank you SO much for the support =)