The BIG Move of '08

*Our New House*
We began looking at housing options about a year ago. The inventory in the Liberty school district area alone was immense. We had a desire to stick with the elementary school that the boys have done so well with, so that narrowed our choices quite a bit. We had a long list of "wants" and quite a few "needs" when it came to the new house. We listed our house at the WORST possible time, last fall. Going into winter the market always tends to slow, but we quickly discovered we'd also hit the worst possible time to sell as the real estate crisis began coming into full swing! Being a horrible time to sell... it was on the reverse side... a GREAT time to buy as the prices of homes began to fall. We took a hit selling our house 9 LONG months after listing it, but we feel lucky to have found a great house for our family!

We moved into the house June 16th and had quite a lot of work ahead fixing lots of minor deferred maintenance and finishing the basement for my business. Thank goodness Cory had most of the summer off so he could keep up with my honey-do lists!