I've been so busy lately....well since December lets try to re-cap what's been happening with the Braswell's.... We finally decided after tossing the idea back/forth about selling our home in Flowery Branch! We had been wanting to for a year or so, but with the economy, James' job, childcare, Chloe's school....We just felt we "couldn't", but as we All Know with GOD...ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!!! ~
We both felt a nudge to go ahead with our plans. We cleaned everything up in the house, straightened it up and the Friday the 14th of February, Valentine's Day...the week of Snow we Had...We put our "FOR SALE BY OWNER" sign up in the yard!
I had been determined since the get-go that I was going to sell the house on my own, no real estate agents, no companies...I had this...I read up on strategies/marketing it etc. We made multiple signs to advertise, I printed flyers, we put it online etc. We were blew out of the water with how much response we received...We had families drive 3 hours away to see it!
On average I was showing it every other night for some nights we would show it up to 3 families per night. I was truly exhausted, trying to work full time, be a mom and a part time "real estate" agent, but I knew how much $$ it would save us in the long run!
Several weeks went by, my phone was still blowing up with interested clients. Had a few low-ball offers, but then one particular week, we showed the house to about 6 families...and on that Thursday, we had 5 of those 6 call wanting to put an offer on the house! I was in AWE for sure...one right after the other...so I decided as I talked with all of them, I sat a date/time for them to have their BEST offer on the table and we would consider all of them and let them know our outcome!
My head was spinning by now...a mixture of emotions...Happy that so many people were interested, Worried that I would do all of the necessary paperwork to complete the sale of our home, Scared because we had no idea where we would stay/live when we sold our house and Sad because this was our 1st home!!
The next afternoon all families put their best offers out there...and we decided on the best offer and you would not believe where the family was from....Habersham. Wanting to move to Flowery Branch to be closer to family, with us wanting to move back to Habersham to be closer to my family!
I couldn't have asked for a better family to sell our home too...they were very nice, helpful and they felt God truly put our families together at the right timing to fulfill our longing to get back to our family roots!
We signed our contract on that Friday night, March 28th and the next several weeks was a whirlwind...packing, boxing up, trashing stuff....April 29th we SOLD our Home!!!!
We found a rental in Habersham from a family friend that was nice, reasonably priced! Forgot to add in the mix during this time we were searching online and in person homes for sale, land for sale etc. Trying to figure out what we wanted to do...and ironic as it may seem one weekend we had a road name misunderstood and went down the wrong road and saw a "For Sale" sign for some land...we both figured it would be too expensive but thought we might just make an offer.
This land is right in the area we wanted, wooded, quiet...We put an offer out there and BOOOM....the land became ours!!!
The last several months has just been AWESOME...God's timing, comfort, peace...Nothing could have worked out any better!!! We sold our house on a Tuesday and I purchased the land for sale on Thursday!!
Now we're in the process of getting all of our builders ready to start building our dream home!!! ~
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