Sold! To the Vicomte de Chagny, thank you Sir.

We sold our house on Tuesday. A nice single school teacher bought our house for about $291 thousand which was more than our asking price. Our asking price was in the $274 range. We had a few offers from people in the $300, but they were also asking for us to pay the closing costs on this house, which would've brought us to just below our asking price. The lady we sold the house to bought it without wanting us to pay anything extra since we were also putting on a new roof.

We also bought our house in Utah. It was quite nerve wracking. When we called up the other relator to place an offer, she said we should hurry because there was another offer coming in, too. Now, we had looked at this house before and it's a beautiful house, and it was big enough for us to all have our own bedroom, and we'd have one room left over for a guest room (and we are planning on having guests). As it turns out the other people wanting to make an offer didn't have all of their financial information ready for the relator yet, and she was giving them 24 hours to get it together. We had everything ready, made the offer, and we heard back the next day that we got the house.

We've set a tenative date for the relocation company to come and pack us up. So it looks like we will be packed up and leaving on March 17th, 2010. We won't be able to move into our new house untill the 31st, but that's okay. Dad's company will pay to store our items for up to 60 days, and then move them into our house for us.

So for now I am still here in California, and I need to get to Institute and tell my friends when I am leaving.

Déménagement

So, it is official! We are moving from our home in Ontario CA to a house somewhere in Layton UT. Yesterday our realestate agent came to our house, gave us the info on what was needed to get this house to sell (basically all we need is a new roof), took some pictures, and put the house on the market yesterday at around 3:00pm. Today we had our first couple come over to tour the house. Very cute young couple. The husband is an engenier, and the wife is a nanny. They seemed to like the house, and said they really liked the kitchen.

We had just recently remodeled the kitchen so now we have a natural looking tile floor, granite counter tops and all new cabinates and a new oven/stove top. We didn't have to knock out the walls and expand the kitchen, but we did rearange the cabinates and the position of most of the appliances so that the room flowed more and appears to be more open. The cabinates are a very pretty redish color, and we have a black granite tile countertop. Surprisingly, the tile countertop was cheaper than buying a granite slab countertop. All in all, the kitchen renovation cost 5 grand. Not bad, really. Dad installed the cabinates along with Craig Holmes, and we helped him lay the tile on the floor and countertop.

We are in the process of redoing our house roof. Unfortunately no one will insure a shake-shingle roof anymore. Which is really unfortunate. We've been in this house for 15 years and our roof hasn't leaked on us since we moved in. We have a friend doing our garage roof, and he has done a very good job. He's now going to start work on our roof tomorrow along with a few other people. We even suggested him to our neighbors who are also looking to sell.

We might be taking a trip up to Utah on Friday if everything goes well. Mom will be looking for a house while Dad works. I don't know if I will be able to drive my new car down from my uncle's house, but I hope so. It's a little two-door Honda Accord. Oh, and by the way, I got my license yesterday! I am very excited! I am now able to drive! :D