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October 6, 2004
Moving Update
Work is progressing nicely on the CT house. Getting ready to sell is always a big job! This past weekend I got the outside fence powerwashed and painted. Have to tell you about spray painters. Wow - what a mess. I mean I pretty much spray painted the whole yard white. Looked like a blizzard hit. Thankfully I was able to keep most of the overspray out of the neighbors yards using a backing board. But I'll trade the mess for the time savings any day. Painted the whole fence in 90 minutes. Took Shannon three weekends to do it by hand when she bought the place. I figure a good low mowing and the white grass will turn green again...
Also got the bathroom drywalled and sanded (another fine mess...) and will get the trim on tonight and get painting this weekend. Have a look once, and twice. Am also putting a new pantry in the kitchen so hope to get that framed in tomorrow night (started anyway.) Got the den cleaned out and will be starting on some drywall patches. Found a dog hair under the couch. Actually I found one hundred billion of them under there but who's counting...
New siding is looking great!!! Wow what a difference, and Shannon is really happy to see the house looking so nice, even though we're leaving. Just feels good to see your first home realize it's full potential.
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This weekend my seester Lupe Esmerelda Sanchez (a.k.a. Rebecca) will be visiting. We're excited, since we'll be going boat camping on Sunday afternoon -> Monday. Then back to the house to put Lupe to work on the outside of the house - mulching, planting a few posies to nicen up the joint. Looking for the magic of "curb appeal" to aid in the sale!
Found a do-it-yourself service that allows you to get your house on the MLS listings. We're going to go the FSBO route and try to save a commission. Hopefully it works out, but if we get separated for too long -
more than a day??? :(
- with Shannon in VA and me in CT, then we'll get a real estate agent to deal with it. Just racing the clock right now because we really hope to list this month. Tons to do yet!
Posted by
Stephen
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October 6, 2004 11:18 AM
The house is really looking amazing. Have to admit I'm kinda sad....because it was my first house. No regrets about moving back to VA though. It's just nice to see the house finally reach the potential I knew it had when I bought it 3+ years ago. A lot of time, effort, money and hard work has gone into it. Very proud of it all. I just hope we can find a nice family to move into it - it deserves a couple of kids running around in the yard.
Posted by:
Shannon
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October 7, 2004 5:35 PM
Wow...terrific progress! Way to go on that bathroom. Steve-I'm still impressed with the tiling job you did back at the shack. Can't wait to see what you guys do at the vineyard!
Shannon's in Virginia now?? You Mackey's have some 'splainin' to do. Welcome back, Shannon!!
Posted by:
Brian
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October 9, 2004 12:29 AM
Not to worry Korte. I'm not in VA quite yet...but I'm working on it. We'll let you know as soon as anything comes through. Keep knocking on wood in the meantime for us!
Posted by:
Shannon
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October 13, 2004 3:44 PM
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