We really needed to get the Dallas House on the Market, all this time we have been making two house payments and paying two sets of utilities...the sooner we can sell the Dallas house the better! We had a feeling it would sell quickly once we put it on the market, we just needed to get the remaining stuff loaded up for the trip back to the country. This time we were bringing the 3 cats back with us too. Once we do that, we won't have anyone to take care of them in the country.
We got another surprise when we got to the house in Dallas...the floor in the laundry room is wet. The wall is also wet...not good, not good at all. I called Mark to see if he could come fix it, he would come out as soon as he could. We had a Realtor coming out to look at the house and discuss getting it on the market for sale, we needed it fixed before she came out.
Mark ended up having to replace the faucet in the laundry room and had to cut into the wall to do it, it had a leak and all the Sheetrock was squishy. We wanted the house to be perfect when we put it on the market or at least close to it. He got the faucet and Sheetrock replaced before the realtor got there, but still needed to texture the wall so I could paint. We just told her what was going on and it would be ready for her to take pictures for our listing in a few days. That wasn't the only thing wrong though...Crew went to check the spa and we had some kind of yellow algae growing in it. He put chemicals in it to clean it, and the spa wouldn't come on! Mark took a look at that for us too...told us what it could be so we could get the parts...oh and we had already replaced the heater on it too, we had noticed it wasn't working on one of our previous trips.
I dug up the herbs and put them in pots to take to the country house, but Crew thought they would be a selling feature and I ended up replanting them. We worked on the yard, mowed and weeded, cleaned the floor in the shed and put everything we were taking in the garage to get an idea of the size truck we needed. I cleaned while Crew moved items to the garage. We were ready for the realtor, well except the laundry room...I couldn't paint until the texturing was dry. The Realtor came and was very impressed at the condition of the house, she wanted keys right then but we needed a couple more days and told her we would drop them by the office on our way out of town after we cleaned. We still needed to clean the carpet and tile floors, but we wanted all the animals out first. She made a few suggestions having to do with the yard and garden beds. I actually made labels for all of the plants and flowers with the names of the plants and colors of flowers when they bloomed, we put fresh mulch in a few beds and hired someone to take care of the yard while the house was being shown. She suggested a list price for the house and we argued with her over it, it was not enough...a matter of fact it pissed us off. She said she would walk the neighborhood and get comps and see if what we wanted to list it for would be appropriate.
We stayed another night, I reserved a U-Haul and Crew went and got us something to eat while I painted the wall in the laundry room. In the morning I got up early, put another coat of paint on the wall in the laundry room and we left to get our last U-Haul truck. All in all we got 3 U-Hauls, the biggest they had and moved bit by bit along with the pickup bed full every time we drove to the country house. Since we had everything in the garage packing up the truck was not quite as bad. At least this time we were getting an earlier start back to the country...and this time we had Kensie and our 3 cats. Crew had two of the cats in the U-Haul and I had our cat Prada and Kensie with me in the pickup truck. Prada likes to talk, and she talked almost non-stop the whole trip...I had her carrier on the seat next to me and I finally set it on the floor and she settled down. We were on our way to our new home in the country with the remainder of our household goods.
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