The Wonderful World of Wendy: Things are a-changin

Boy, I have been so busy trying to get everything together and organized I haven't had a chance to post in awhile. We put in an offer Tuesday night for the new townhome at City View in High Point - I sort of expect to hear that offer has been accepted today. Then there is the matter of financing - the lender told me to go ahead and write up the purchase contract but our loan has not been approved yet - they haven't completed the application yet and we haven't chosen a loan program yet. And meanwhile, we are getting rid of things now (needed to even if I wasn't moving) and cleaning up, getting ready to put our house on the market. That's if it even makes it to market. A developer came out and walked the property yesterday and called me and asked to see this house this morning...and now is bringing his real estate advisor tomorrow. Meanwhile another lender/developer borrowed my keys today to go and take a look at it as well (we're friends). Since our property is so large it appears to be dividable into two lots - which we always sort of knew was possible but hadn't the foresight to do it ourselves. It takes too long, I don't have time now to do it. It could take 6-9 months for the city process to divide the property and I need to sell my home ASAP so I can waive both my sale and financing contingecies. But I have priced m,y property accordingly, it is worth more since it is dividable into two lots. A developer/builder can get a pretty good deal really and then make a lot of money selling two new houses. Anyway, a lot of stuff is hanging out there and we're not sure which way to jump. But we do have options! If we can't rent our house back from the buyer for a few months while the townhome is completed (current date now is July 18th), then my lender friend has a rental house he just bought (another large lot he wants to develop) that he is going to demolish in August to build new construction, so we might go hunker down in Lakeridge (SE Seattle). OR if we want to have fun, we also found two highrise apartment buildings downtown that do short-term leases and will accept 4 pets (sort of a tough thing to find). We are tempted to put what we're keeping into storage and then rent minimal furniture - that way it gets delivered and picked up!! But it will be harded for Sophia with no yard (altho one apartment highrise as a pet relief station indoors). If we stay at our house or go to our friend's rental house she will still have a big yard. But she will need to get used to not having a yard! We will be getting a LOT more walks instead.

I had a tree service out yesterday to clean up our yard from the December storm damage. There's a bunch of wood to be chopped up but other than that it looks great! We finally got the English hawthorne trees down (I called them "Scary Halloween trees" because every August they would get blight and lose all their leave and they were so UGLY). So the front looks great!!

Front of house now (without the English hawthorne). I should find a before picture to post.

View of back of house, patio and garden

Cedar tree that blew apart in the big storm - more than half of the top portion is gone. We also had to have the two plum trees removed they were so heavily damaged.