Sunday, June 08, 2008

Mom & Dads No More




We came up to Seattle this weekend to help my parents get their house ready to sell. We decluttered and put everything on Craigslist. Mom and dad could hardly believe the flock of people that showed up. They made $1400 in 2 days. Yippee!. I think I posted over 60 items. The trick is, just get rid of the stuff, don't be stingy about the price. The people drove out to see it.........give it away if you have to. I laughed cause my dad got fussy about something I gave away. I teased him that if I hadn't put all this stuff online he would have had to load it and taken it down to Goodwill. He agreed and is so happy that his garage is more spacious.
Mom made Nate a lemon meringue pie for retiling the laundry floor and putting some trim in their family room.
We also put their house on craigslist and I made a site that perspective buyers can go to and look at the house. http://www.redmondhomereo.blogspot.com/




7 comments:

Unknown said...

Gorgeous. Will you take $250K

Phil

Bob said...

That's a beautiful home. I think that's the one they had when you guys got married. Sorry to hear they are going to move away.

Meridith O. said...

Maile, their house looks amazing! Great job on making them $1400! You are a craigslist hero!

Carrie said...

You seriously amaze me. where do you get your energy and drive from? Every Craigslist item sold is one step closer to Utah! Oh yeah!!!

Bob said...

You should have left all their stuff in their house and hoped they would lose their desire to move to Utard.

Andrea said...

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Julie said...

That's neat how they helped so much with your house and you helped them as well. What a close, awesome family. I hope they will be staying close to you guys.