Realtor's visit

Jared and I decided on a Realtor on Saturday in between projects. We wanted someone that's been really successful selling homes so we opened the phone book and the person with the biggest ad was the person we called. So far that's been a really good idea. She came over last night and had an entire binder full of information on the market in our neighborhood and the history of the performance for this area for the past two years in comparison to the rest of Utah. Then she had homes that were also on the market...because of living in Utah they were both in our ward and we know them both well (I've been in both their houses too) They are both smaller houses and so they are listed at a lower price than what we'd do.

Our house is one of the bigger homes in the neighborhood. We really never need this much space, but we got it because it was such a good deal and we kind of wanted it as an investment.

The Realtor is forming a huge list of stuff to fix and how much she thinks it will cost with pictures that she took. She will be sending all that to us in an email. I'm so impressed with how tech savvy she is. She'll have a number to text on the for sale sign that will send people a text message with a link to our own website just for our house. We'll also have our house listed on several websites with tons and tons of pictures up. She thinks it will take 30 to 45 days for it to sell, and she recommends that we put it up in 6 weeks right before school lets out. Jared is feeling super stressed about it right now, and canceled his plans to go camping at the sand dunes this weekend so that we can have an extra weekend to get all this work done.

She wants us to replace the ceilings downstairs, finish painting the walls and carpet down there, and put up lights in the hallway. We have to put up closet doors in the kids bedrooms, baseboards in Becca's room, replace the outdated florescent lights in the kitchen, put down some trim around the bottom of the cabinets in the kitchen that we never put up, tile around the bathtub in the bathroom upstairs and we have to do a ton of work in the downstairs bathroom. The lights need to be fixed so that they actually work, we have to replace the floor, fix the toilet so that it doesn't rock, replace the vanity/sink. She wants us to replace the doors upstairs and move them to the basement because they are in better condition than the downstairs ones.

So we definitely have our work cut out for us.