thanks everyone. Our first house sold in a few days, and we priced this, our second house, so it was attractive once we made our decision. We had three interested parties, but two have houses to sell.
We are going through the house again today - we have a friend with five kids who are in various stages of college and starting out and two nieces in college so we have had no shortage of people that will gladly take stuff- they even pick it up. We sold the valuable stuff and also donated truckloads. We are bringing four sparse rooms of furniture, our kitchen stuff and clothes. It has been very freeing to get rid of everything, we are not shoppers so I am not sure how we accumulated so much. I also feel like we did our kids a huge favor, they do not have a houseful of junk to clean out if anything happens to us. I see many of our friends literally throwing years of accumulation in dumpsters, and we did find homes for most of our stuff so it did not end up in landfills.
We have been to TV twice and the last time spent a week lifestyle visit so have a good idea of the layout, talked to realtors in TV and MLS yesterday and once we have firm dates they will line up showings for us.
We may build, but it is hard for us to look at a line of sand lots and envision a completed village. I admire those of you who can do that and end up with a house you are really happy with.
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