No More FSBO

Since posts with pics are more interesting than posts without, here's the latest pic that we have of the Austin house (compliments of course, of our future neighbor, Alana) It's kinda cloudy, but you can see the cool red color that makes up the underside of the roof. Oh, you can also see the stained cedar planks in the back balconies.

And here's the maid idea for today: How many ways can you say DE-FLA-TED? Not enough to convey how we're feelin right now. After 8 months of trying to sell our loft ourselves, we've given up. Because we're running out of time....the Austin house is getting built faster than I can type. (ps- completion date = sometime in May). So, now we've entered Realtor Land. We've hired the realtor who we bought the loft from to now sell it. It was about a year ago that we spoke to her in the first place about selling. That was when we were certain we could sell it ourselves. Soooo...moving on. No more thinking about what we shoulda done...now its up to the realtor to sell it. On the bright side....we don't have to host any more open houses! That sucked. The one last thing I'll say about FSBO (FOR SALE BY OWNER)- only attempt it if you have lots of time on your side, and lots of patience- for talking to all the idiots that come through your house, and for keeping your place clean ALL THE TIME. That was one of the most annoying parts of it all. But, we do deserve some credit- with all the advertising we did, and open houses, and hosting open studios we managed to bring in 100's of people into our space.

They just weren't swanky loft buyers. Their loss. OK. No more cryin.