Our New Home, Our Old Home
Once we decided to sell our condo, it became obvious that with the market as it is in Boston, doing it before June would be really helpful. So, despite that being pretty awful timing for us, we managed to do everything needed to get it ready to sell, including packing up 1/2 of our belongings into storage between our return from Paris and May 13. It meant staying up late going through our stuff and packing every night after putting Elliott to bed for a couple weeks and lining up several different jobs that needed to be done by professionals: landscaping, power washing, painting, building new stairs onto the deck, and more. The legwork for selling was definitely all in the preparation because once it was on the market, we accepted the top offer within a matter of days (thank you crazy Boston housing market). We were extremely grateful for that because trying to keep the house clean for 5 minutes is impossible, so we were relieved to have the house back to ourselves again. Although, ...