We have a contract on the house in Erie…
Two years to the day after it went on the market…
for [an insane amount] below not just what we first listed it for but for what we paid for it in 2004.
But do we care? Hellz no. We’re SELLING it!
The people buying it are going to be new to Erie (far as I know) so we’re creating Erieites here. AND selling our house. Yay!
We’re using the closing (May 30) as an excuse to come to Erie. We’re going up that Thursday, the closing is Friday morning or afternoon and we’re probably coming home on that Saturday.
Plus, Erie bloggers/friends, I’m coming up for my friend Erin’s wedding in Buffalo but I’m coming up to Erie the evening before. That’ll be Friday, July 11. I don’t know if I’ll be passing back through Erie on the 13th.
So if anyone wants to get together, let me know here or via Facebook or e-mail or however.
ETA: I forgot to mention that we’d never had so much as an offer on the house until yesterday so it’s not that we were holding out or something. Our house is big and has lots of features (like A/C, a super-huge basement, a hedge fence, etc) that other houses in Country Club Acres don’t have but houses on the market before ours sold for way more. Then people were putting their houses on the market for way less than value and people bought those before ours. So we were prepared to say “screw you and your property values.” But it didn’t go horribly low. Just too low for what it is. Thank you, current economy.
8 Comments
May 13, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I’m off work for the summer … I’d love to meet you after reading your blog for the last year!
And I’ll keep my fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly with the house!!
May 14, 2008 at 6:41 am
Awesome. Congratulations!
May 14, 2008 at 8:20 am
Could you sprinkle some of that house selling pixie dust my way? We have been carrying 2 mortgages since Feb ‘07 and it SUCKS! I’d love it if we met while you are in town. Just let me know when and I’ll try to be there.
May 14, 2008 at 8:49 am
if you’re up here on that thursday night, i’m free!
May 14, 2008 at 9:15 am
Congrats! I can only imagine how that feels to FINALLY be out from under it. We are 2 years and 1 month into ours. I hope everything goes smoothly and you close before you know it!
May 14, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I’m glad it’s getting sold, but damn, do I hear you about this economy.
May 16, 2008 at 3:27 pm
YAY for selling it, but boo for it going lower that you would like.
May 16, 2008 at 10:10 pm
prelim congrats! you didn’t say anything earlier! my wishes to you that you have a closing too.