Monday, October 22, 2007
WE GOT AN OFFER ON THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We signed the papers this morning and a nice couple who live in the same zip code will be the owners of our house. We just happened to be in San Antonio for a wedding and we stopped by the house to do some vacuuming. I always like the way that the lines looked in a freshly vacuumed room and since there have been a bunch of showings, I was afraid that the footprints would erase the lines. Granted I didn't do any work, but I supervised!
Sunday, October 14, 2007
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Getting the house ready...
So I spent the weekend getting the house ready to be put back on the market again. I spent a couple of hours with a little spackle and touch up paint. The most effort went to the deck as I restained it. I figured that the house should look its best and if I can take a couple of hours restaining a 16 x 34 deck (544 sq feet) that is lined with Cedar.
Coming from the NYC area, cedar was always considered something of a fancy wood. Lined your closets with it, made shoe trees out of it, maybe hangars. I guess since its pretty plentiful they can make decks out of it.
I hired a landscape guy to redo the mulch, plant some flowers and mow the lawn. I also hired one of those 5 person cleaning crews to scrup from top to bottom. Hopefully everything will be finished today, pictures are taken tommorow and the house is put on the market on Thurs or Friday.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Getting ready to put the house back on the market
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Bad News
Anyway, this is a picture of the playground at the Lookout Canyon. The whole facility is really geared towards kids. There are two separate structures, one for the little ones and one for the big ones. A tennis court, basketball court, swimming pool, and sand volleyball court complete the facilities.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
The Backyard
One of the reasons why we decided to purchase this house was for the backyard. It is clearly one of the biggest in the neighborhood. We thought what a great place to have two little boys run around. One of the unusual features of the backyard is that I had Bermuda Grass put in. As I stated before, I grew up in New York and I like the feel of Bermuda under my feet. I think its softer and feels better. It seems to do a little bit better with the heat and with a little less water. The front of the house is St. Augustine. Its kind of this weedy grass that dominates most texas lawns.
The realtor
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The Resume
My House for Sale
Let me tell you a little about my family before we go to the house resume. I received an offer from Tesoro Petroleum and started work for them in 2004. We purchased a brand new home from Coventry Homes in September of 2004. We loved San Antonio and our second son was born at the Children's Hospital in San Antonio. We have two boys ages 2.5 and 3.5 and that is a picture of them Halloween 2005 on our front stoop.
I received an offer from another oil company in the beginning of the year. It was a better offer, a chance to work with an old collegue as well as returning to my wife's hometown and the decision was made. We moved. By the way, for all of you guys out there, when the wife is happy, the whole family is happy. (Took me a while to learn that one.)
But that left our house on the market. We watched all the shows, we listed to all advice and we put the house on the market after we moved out. Since we haven't been getting that great a response, I thought what better way than to market it through the internet and listen to the feedback.