We have had our house off and on the market for the past year. It has been a rocky road as we have tried to recover some equity in our home after the real estate crash that absolutely rocked Las Vegas over the past five years. Any national headline about the real estate crash led with Las Vegas as the worst market in the country. There we go again Las Vegas, being the best at the worst categories...
Around 2006, our house was selling for 160% of our original price but if we had sold it, we could afford ... our same house again at a higher price... Then at its lowest around 2009 it was selling for 50% of what we paid - and everyone was doing a short sale to get out of their house. We just stuck it out - the house fit our family and we could pay our bills.
But it's just getting a little cozy around here - and we would love to have a backyard for the kids to play. This has been a great house for us and we will miss it for a lot of reasons. I wanted to include the photos of we used on the real estate listing so the kids can remember their first house.
This is the house I moved into as a single 25-year-old, the house that Matt and I came home to after our honeymoon, and the first house for all three of our kids. It is still crazy to me that they will forever and ever say that they were born in Las Vegas.
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| Dunraven Estates, as named by Becky Baird |
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| Penelope's Room |
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| Sweet P's Room |
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| We will miss the new tile we put in - we got to enjoy it for almost 2 years |
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| Half bath downstairs |
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| Kitchen |
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| Living Room/Dining Room = Cozy! |
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| Master Bedroom - new shutters in the whole house... sad to see them go! |
The kids asked to eat breakfast in their room on their last morning in the house. It was bitter sweet to see them all in there on the mattresses, waiting to get everything loaded up.
We had SO much help from family and friends to make this move possible. We had about 2 weeks to get packed. We had so many offers and buyers come and go over the past year that we didn't really take this one seriously until it was about 2 weeks into the 30 day close and we thought, this might actually happen - we better start packing!
Thank you to everyone who helped pack, clean, organize, watch our kids (so many times!!) and load up our moving truck. We have such a great support system - I can't imagine how we would have done a move like this with three kids without everyone's help!
