Moving out!

We put our house on the market in November 2013. We decided against the help of a real estate agent, at least for the time being. There were many houses for sale in our neighborhood, including our direct neighbor's as well. Despite minimum advertising (Zillow, Homefinder/Free Press, lawn sign and on our own website), we had several showings in 2013, but no immediate offers.

Things picked up again towards the end of January and we got two offers on one weekend. We decided to accept one of them and agreed on a closing date at the end of March.

Then we started to move stuff into a storage unit in February.

Storage unit beginning to fill up

But by mid March it was finally time to get serious with moving out and into our temporary place in Jericho. Unfortunately, the tough winter of 2013/14 did not want to end and so the weather was not what we had liked. But it had to get done nevertheless!

First we got a larger U-Haul truck to bring the bigger pieces to the storage unit and a few things out to Jericho on THU and FRI before closing day. But there was still much more "stuff"... so we got another van for the weekend and did more runs from Williston to Jericho, moving the rest of our belongings, including everything that was supposed to go to a friend's shed in Underhill's woods.
There was no way to get there with all the snow in March.

U-Haul to the rescue!

Moving in winter is no fun!

We wrapped up cleaning the house just in time for the closing. Everything went well at the attorney's office, and we had a celebratory beer with the new owners in the old house.

The time had come to say goodbye to our house in Williston!