It has been nearly two months since I last posted! If anything, this has proven to be a journey of patience. Our house has been sitting on the market just shy of 60 days, and while we have had a lot of showings, we have had zero offers. We've offered to pay closing costs, lowered the price, fine tuned the fine tune details (repainting, trim work tweaks, etc). Prior to the house being finished, I felt (without a doubt) that the house was so beautiful that we were likely to get multiple / competing offers. It is hear-breaking to be on the market this long.
Right now we are 11 months out from the flood. 11 months of two mortgage payments, electric, and water bills (our house in San Antonio and the house on Rocky Creek). 11 months of worry. So we're at an impasse, or maybe not. Maybe are not meant to sell this house yet. In the beginning of the rehab it was our intention to keep the house as a rental, but as time wore on ( and we grew tired) selling won out. When we first decided that we would sell I would get teary-eyed just talking about it - the house has incredible sentimental value. We never planned to not have a rental house, we just thought we would sell the house in Houston and buy another rental house in San Antonio. I am not sure if I am talking myself into things, but it actually makes since to not sell. No commission to the broker, no closing cost on a new house, and we get to keep a house the has been totally re-done.
I don't think we have made a final decision, but I know which was I am leaning.....
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