Endings and Beginings

Today is the day....

We closed on our house in Washington state!!!!  We purchased this home with the intent to live there for a long time (which we say everywhere we go).  It was Oct 2014 when we moved into the house and worked on selling our house in Nebraska.  We officially signed for the house in Feb of 2015 and it was great.  It had acreage that was manageable, it had room enough for all of our family, it had amazing views, and it was exciting.

Then summer of 2016 Charlie decided to apply for a promotion that would bring us to New England.  He got the job and left in January.  Washington had more snow that winter than it had had the entire time we lived there (6 years).  And then, once the snow went away, there was a mudslide that caused my 5 min drive to work to become an hour commute.  Our one main highway in the small town we lived in was shut down.  There was no chance it would open for quite a while.  So there I am, 3 small kids, 2 in school and one being watched by a friend, and every possible hindrance was occurring.

Finally, once summer hit the kids and I were able to move to NH with Charlie.  However, we did not sell our home.  We rented it out.  Luckily we were able to purchase a home in NH when Charlie moved there because we had renters lined up for the Washington house.  The home in NH was a log cabin (Charlie's dream home) on 32+ acres just outside of the small town we lived in.  

We thought we would be selling the Washington house to our renters within a year or two.  This did not happen.  They rented the house for the entire time that we lived in NH (4 years).  It worked out for us as the mortgage was paid, but we wanted to be done with a home we could not maintain as it was so far from us.  So the summer of 2021 we got a move to Az.  We put our NH house up for sale and were under contract.  Now we just had to sell the Wa house.

I knew a real estate agent in Wa and she got to work setting up a deal with the former owner's daughter.  It could not have worked out better.  We had a lot of glitches on the way and were disappointed here and there, but our agent kept our spirits up and worked hard to make sure everything worked out.  And now, it is official.  We do not own our home in Washington.