sold

Progress Report

Fandango13 Comments

Two weeks and two days ago my wife and I moved into our new forever home. We have unboxed and unpacked about 90% of the boxes and have organized and put away most of our belongings, which means we’re getting close to the point where we can stop asking each other where we put the thingamajig or in what drawer the whatchamacallit is.

I would say it will take until the end of March before we have everything set up and running smoothly. We are having some custom closets installed today and tomorrow and my new home office desk is being delivered tomorrow, so I will have no excuse for putting off doing my taxes any longer.

But the big news is that we already sold our former home. It went on the market on March 5th and five days later we had an over-asking, all-cash offer with no contingencies. And six days later (today), we went to close of escrow. In other words, we sold our house and got paid just eleven days after we put it on the market. Woo Hoo!

I am sure that our house sold so quickly and for a premium price because of our private backyard oasis we created for that house.

I won’t lie. I am going to miss that backyard. The backyard in our new home is big and it’s nice. But if our previous backyard was a ten, our new backyard is a six. Maybe a seven at best. But then again, we are now only five minutes from our son, his wife, and our grandkids, so there is that.

FOWC with Fandango — Sold

FandangoLeave a comment
FOWC

Welcome to November 14, 2021 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “sold.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.

Who Won The Week? 03/15/2020

Fandango22 Comments

10CC3057-4EEA-4C80-B8C1-700C0FC6C906It’s time for another Who Won the Week prompt. The idea behind Who Won the Week is for you to select who (or what) you think “won” this past week. Your selection can be anyone or anything — politicians, celebrities, athletes, authors, bloggers, your friends or family members, books, movies, TV shows, businesses, organizations, whatever.

I will be posting this prompt on Sunday mornings (my time). If you want to participate, write your own post designating who you think won the week and why you think they deserve your nod. Then link back to this post and tag you post with FWWTW.

This week I am choosing me, Fandango. Yes, that’s right. I won the week. Why am I bestowing this great honor on myself? Because I’m down to one house.

Five and a half weeks ago, my wife and I moved from the “big city” to a relatively small suburb about 35 miles to the east. Two weeks after we vacated our old house, and after some sprucing up and staging, our San Francisco house went on the market.

Could the timing have been any worse? First, the news about this new coronavirus having reached America came out. People were testing positive for the virus, a lot of whom were getting sick, and with some dying. That created a widespread sense of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, also referred to as “FUD.” Then the stock market started falling precipitously, adding to the FUD. People were stocking up on toilet paper and hand sanitizer and pulling their money out of the stock market and stuffing it into their mattresses.

Some industries, including travel and entertainment, began scaling back and jobs were being lost. Schools were being closed, sporting events were being canceled, and large, public gatherings were being banned. Economists were saying we were entering a serious and potentially long term recession. Who buys a new house under those circumstances?

I thought for sure that we were doomed to carry our old house indefinitely. But, for a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling down upon us. A week and a half after going on the market, we accepted an offer on our house that, remarkably, was 20% over asking! And a week after that, this past Wednesday, we closed escrow. So now we’re down to one house. Phew!

And that is why I won the week!

And now it’s your turn, folks. Who (or what) do you think won the week?