Our townhouse is for sale! - Realtor Link – Trulia Link
Now to the story… Luke and I decided that we should put our house on the market right around the time of our wedding/honeymoon. More specifically, we listed it the day we left for our honeymoon and two days after our wedding. My advise to anyone thinking about this: It’s better than listing before the wedding… Why? One word: cleaning. The days and last couple weeks leading up to the wedding our house became a mess. We got presents everyday (THANKS EVERYONE!!!), we had goodie bag stuff from Costco, and of course we had my craft projects everywhere. Is it a good idea to make your own centerpieces and programs? YES, because they were exactly what we wanted and lot cheaper, but again a mess and that also may make you crazy. So thankfully we waited, because cleaning now rules the house. Basically when you list your house on the market, the place officially becomes not yours. It’s this place you get to live in, but must not make a mess in and must clean every morning.
Why on the other hand did we feel the need to put the house on the market right before our honeymoon? Gunner. My parents (Mom & Dad Brandt) were kind enough (THANKS!!!) to take Gunner up to the mountains during our honeymoon. What better time to have a chance to keep the place clean for two weeks than our honeymoon. So we worked really hard and managed to get everything done – wedding and honeymoon. And by working hard I mean that last week while I made decorations and programs, Luke was touch-up painting the whole house. We cleaned up the backyard. We de-cluttered the place and moved some of our belonging to storage. Why? I’m a clutter queen, but that makes a place look small, so we followed the advice of all those HGTV shows we like to watch and decided to remove things – like Gunner’s futon. Sorry Gunner – but really how many dogs get their own large piece of furniture? So, we de-cluttered as much as possible before the wedding. My best friend, Jen, got us a maid as our wedding present and so she cleaned the place the morning after the wedding. And by Sunday evening we were hitting up AFW. I guess I should watch how I write that, but all I mean is that we forked over some money to get an awesome dining room table. We set it up on Sunday night while my Realtor and friend, Amanda, came over to collect the paperwork. Her husband, Ryan, Luke’s former roommate and close friend, helped Luke put the table together. They are also awesome and brought us over some red wine for our dinner. So all we had left to do on Monday was to finalize cleaning, oh, and that little thing you have to do before travel called packing. We packed and cleaned from 8am until we absolutely had to leave for the airport at 5. We left and felt awesome. It was now time to start the awesome adventure of our honeymoon! Our place was ready for the world to come see (and hopefully purchase).
So would I recommend putting your house on the market while getting married? Probably not if you can avoid it. On the other hand – not much motivates you in life like getting ready for your wedding.
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