Just Listed
This is a bittersweet time for us. The house is finally finished, and turned out the way I envisioned it. Yah! But we won’t be living there because we moved on a year ago.
I signed the listing agreement last week. The first brokers’ tour was yesterday and the first open house is on Sunday. The listing includes a photo tour and an artist’s rendition. I hope someone likes it as much I do.
The house has grown up quite a bit in the past three years, and I mean that literally. When I bought the place back in 1994 (and right up until the remodel started), it looked like this:
Hello, Ryan,
Once again, congrats on keeping the site going, despite all the problems with servers. Keep up the good work!
I am surprised that you are selling the house you worked on for so long and with so many challenges. I would have thought you would never want to leave it. You say you “moved on a year ago,” yet you leave this statement tantalizingly unexplained…
Comment by gladmax — 3 November 2006 @ 5:33 am
Gladmax,
Once we passed the 2 year anniversary of starting the remodel, we decided we needed to start putting down some roots. We started looking for a new house; bought a townhouse in January; moved in February. The months which followed affirmed our decision. The past several weeks, though, have been bittersweet as the remodel has finally come to an end.
When I first moved out of the Berkeley house, I was ecstatic to be moving for a variety of reasons. Even so, as I walked out the front door with the last box in my hands, I sat down on the top step and cried. It’s the first house that bought, and like so many firsts in one’s life, it holds a special place in my heart. Now, even though I’ve moved on to my second house and have turned it into our home with my wife, letting go of the Berkeley house is a trial. I feel like a parent sending my only child off into the world after raising it and helping it grow up.
I am ready to let it go. It might pull one more cry out of me, sitting on the top step one last time. But I am ready to release it for someone else to enjoy.
Comment by Ryan Walker — 3 November 2006 @ 10:37 am