Wednesday, August 27, 2008

what have i done??

oh boy.

now that my house is perfect for "viewing by strangers" guess what?

we decided to - ahem - get new carpet.

I HAVE WANTED NEW CARPET SINCE WE MOVED IN HERE BUDDY!
and now we are getting new carpet so we can sell the place??? are you serious?

i agree. it needs to be done. it's needed to be done for a while. but why couldn't we have done it before i got things just like i needed them to be to keep up with everything when someone is coming to look at the house? (i know. whining. sorry.)

here's the deal:
so we thought we'd start out at the highest price we could -our house has some very nice features and upgrades to it. (it's WORTH what we priced it at)and then if we get bad feed back or no results then we'd lower the price.
then our realtor noticed the spots where the cat had ripped up the carpet and said "i wish i had seen that before we listed so high. well we'll see what happens"
and TJ has worried about it ever since.
he even tried to make patches -which did fit perfectly and damn near matched. but they did look like patches. it looked worse with the patches down than the ripped up part showing.

so we thought we'd get an estimate from a company our realtor recommended that has been in business for 31 years and has this great program where -as long as your credit qualifies -you don't have to pay for anything until you close on your house. then the title company cuts them a check from the escrow you'd be getting back from your house -easy peesey.

the estimates were amazing! $3200 for the whole house or 1500 just for the living room (which is the worst room anyway).no it's not top of the line fancysmanshie carpet but it will be nice and new and fresh and clean. there are pet stains in some of the bedrooms that i just can't get up anyyway so TJ had me call the realtor and get her advice.

her advice: "well ya'll don't have to do anything you don't want to. but my gut feeling would be that i'd rather see ya'll drop the price of the house rather than just replace the floor in one room. the living room runs into the 2 spare rooms so you'd have old carpet touching new carpet and it would be way obvious no matter how close you managed to match the color. it won't be perfect. it would be better to leave it like it is. but even if you lower the price of the house and do nothing the issue could still come up. there's too much for buyers to choose from right now and for the price we listed at and all the extras you already have it would just be extra amazing for someone to come in and see brand new carpet too."

so now tomorrow i have to spend my day packing up every single floor in each of my closets. unload the book shelves.(but that's not too hard.
and unload the entertainment centers.

oh! and how about this!? TJ has been put on emergency standby for the hurrican! which means he will run home tomorrow just long enough to make sure he has enough supplies and gear for 2 weeks if he gets sent somewhere -and while he's here trying to pack for that adventure i'll need him to help me move our nice fancy flat screen tv (the carpet ppl won't do it b/c they can't afford to break it) and see if we can maybe wheel the piano out in the garage so that we don't have to pay extra for them to do it. so what? will i just have a tv crammed in to my laudry room til TJ gets home to move it back or what?? recruit the neighbors to help me set it back up so the living room is all put together for "viewing from potential buyers"?

bleck. bleck bleck.

i know. more whining.

they will take all the beds apart and move all the furniture and put it all together and put it back.
but they will be here all friggin day!! friday. when on earth will Teege get to take his naps? i'm seriously toying with the idea of dragging the play pen to one of the neighbors so i can dump him in it at nap times. maybe that would help some.

oh joy.

what have i done?

it will be great once it's all done.
but the weekends are busiest for showing and it's going to be tough to get it all put back together before the weekend.

wish me luck.

i am going to need it.

3 comments:

Cupcake Blonde said...

I am giving you some moral support because if there is anything I hate worse than showing my house to realtors it is home improvements. Basically I don't like disorder and both those things disorder the hell out of me! I hope you survive without too much crazy! :)

jellybean said...

yes. disorder.
bad!
thanks VP!

Anonymous said...

Realtors always try to get you to do that.

So do interested buyers.

It's stupid, because anyone who buys it is just going to put in whatever type of flooring they want. Why try to accommodate the whims of complete strangers?

You are going to go through alot of this as long as the house is listed, you'd really just better make decisions between the two of you now and stick to your guns. It's YOUR house. Don't let anyone bully you. It will sell or it won't but there isn't much you can do to sway the minds of people you don't know.