Educating the Wheelers

I was looking forward to blogging about the process of selling our house, but very quickly realized that the chances were pretty good that our buyers might do the very same thing I did when I found out their names: Google them and try to find out their story.

So, uh, yeah. That wouldn’t exactly be the best bargaining position.

Suffice to say, the option period is over, the negotiating is over, so I can share that we put our house on the market on a late Friday night, and selected an offer over asking price made the next day. If everything goes according to plan, we should close at the end of this month.

I would also like to add that it’s really, really awesome to be moving from an area with a relatively hot real estate market [Austin] to a market that’s currently in the tank [Twin Cities]. Searchlight Crusade has a nice recent article about buyer’s markets that I found very timely for us. Mainly, how do you deal with the notion that you should wait to buy, because aren’t prices just going to drop lower?