Getting Ready for the Open House

Our first open house is going to be this Saturday - we've been busier than hell getting ready for it, and we've got a tonne left to do this week - pretty much entirely after work.

So far, we've taken about 7 car loads of stuff to goodwill including 5 full bags of clothes, filled the dumpster twice (and I mean *filled*), painted and sorted.

We even went so far as to drop a cool $500 on re-doing the backyard to make it look nice for a change - the vast majority of that went towards plants.

I'm currently sitting downstairs while new carpet gets installed upstairs - I think it's going to look good, and will definitely not smell like dog/cat piss like the old one did...that may have been one of the more disgusting things I've seen (pulling up the carpet and even worse, the underlay). At the very least, the place will smell new, instead of moldy and nasty.

I think the open house is scheduled from 2 - 4 on Saturday, with possibly another one on Sunday. Before then, we've got to finish painting the bedroom, touching up the walls upstairs, arrange all the furniture up there to look good (IE turning my office into a single bedroom, and doing a final clean-out. I'm not looking forward to mucking out the rest of the garage.

Hopefully all this work is going to be worth it - I'm not too concerned about the price we get, I figure we'll make back everything we've spent so far. I'm just hoping it sells quickly so we can get back to a normal existence and actually enjoy all this work we've been doing.

Next update: after the open house, possibly with pictures.