Selling a house is frustrating, and I think the biggest reason is the amount of uncertainty. Will our house sell in a week? A month? A year? What about our poor ex-neighbors who listed their house, bought another one, and then couldn’t sell the first one for 500+ days? We sure don’t want to end up like them. We have a good Realtor, and since we’ve worked with her before we have some idea what to expect… but that doesn’t change the fact that the house might sell tomorrow, not until after Christmas, or not until the cows come home.
Close behind the uncertainty is the hurry-up-and-wait factor. We’d much rather have this house sold so we can get serious about finding a new house, packing up our stuff, and moving. We’d obviously prefer to move before the new school year starts, but if we can’t, is that worth getting a bridge loan and betting that our Alabama house will sell soon? Who knows.
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