Some things are just meant to be...

Lots of news the last few days...

The house went on the market Friday morning and we already had our first showing that same morning.We weren't quite ready for a first-day showing scenario, we had been storing stuff in the basement/garage in our maniacal staging/de-cluttering rampage.  JT scrambled around to get it in a showable state.

Friday evening, as we were getting ready to leave to go to a friend's house, a quite bubbly woman came bounding up to our porch to get our attention.  She and her husband were in town from St. Louis, had put in an offer on a house in Stapleton, and having JUST seen it for the first time, decided they didn't like it.  They HATED it.  At the same time, they got an update from their realty company with our new house listing.  They couldn't get a hold of their realtor, who had just left for vacation in Moab, to schedule a formal showing, but wanted to know if they could just walk-thru the house.  We of course, were fine with that.  She beckoned to her husband, who must have been hiding out in the car or behind a bush or something, and we walked them through the house.  We could tell they loved it.  After talking with them, we found out that they had sold their own house in St. Louis in TWO HOURS and seemed very motivated to buy.  They already seemed sold on the neighborhood, and after explaining what a family friendly block it was, they seemed pretty sold on our block.  Since they still couldn't reach their vacationing realtor, we told them that they should call ours and see if she could walk them thru more formally.  We called our realtor and explained what had just happened, hoping she wouldn't scold us for breaking some sort of unwritten rule about selling a house.  JT spent that entire night trying not to let me know that he was as excited as he was, he was SURE they were going to write an offer.  I was more reserved.

Saturday morning our Realtor, Jody, did call.  The couple had called her and she wanted to know if they could walk-thru at 11:00.  We were leaving to get breakfast and haircuts anyway, so we agreed on the showing.  She called us a few hours later excited.  They had expressed great interest in the house!  She was now sure they were going to write an offer as well.

Saturday evening came and went with no offer.  We kept ourselves occupied with James Bond movies, pizza and board games....I won both Clue and Life!  I went to sleep not feeling very hopeful about it all.

BUT...

Was woken up this morning with "WE GOT AN OFFER!  WE GOT AN OFFER!" The same couple had finally gotten a hold of their realtor, who was now on her way back from Moab, and submitted an offer.  It was for $4000 less than our asking price, but $5000 more than our "Best Case Scenario" that we had worked out with Jody.  So...

WE ACCEPTED!

AND CLOSE MAY 31!

It was just meant to be.  JT was meant to get the job offer when he did.  We were meant to put the house on the market when we did.  We were meant to meet that amazing couple when we did (who was meant to fall in love with Stapleton and HATE the first house they found). 

And the idea of living in Texas again was meant to become reality!

Our adventure has a much more compact and foreseeable time frame now.  Which makes me, the uber-planner PRETTY DARN HAPPY!!!