House hunting trip!

We are back from our house hunting trip! We took Lynsey and Adam with us and off we went on Thursday. Nathan stayed with my sister Liz in Three Hills on Thursday and that night got transferred to my sister Gert's house for the rest of the time. Knowing what I know now, I can say quite certainly that taking him along would not have worked well at all. Taking Lynsey and Adam worked, but add another straw to this camel's back and I might have been in an insane asylum by the end of the trip! We looked at a bunch of rentals, took a tour of the area with some realtors, did some swimming at the hotel, and that was pretty much it! We stayed in Bellevue and didn't go into Seattle at all - just didn't have time. It was an eye opening trip. Rental prices are a bit insane there - if we wanted to rent something anywhere near what we have now, it would have cost us well over $3000 a month. Not cool! We ended up finding something that will work in Kirkland for $2350 a month, not perfect but should work okay. It's only for a year I keep telling myself! We submitted an application but we're not even sure we're going to get it. I think we have a good chance, but we should know for sure in the next day or two - there were some other applications on the house as well. A lot of people are moving into Seattle area so housing is a bit scarce! We waffled back and forth a lot on the weekend, wondering if we should just wait until we get here and stay in Amazon's corporate apartments while we're looking. All options had pros and cons, so we picked the one we thought was best with the information we had.

Our house has not sold. We had another offer on the weekend, lowest one yet:(. I don't know what's going on, why people don't want to buy our house (or why they don't want to pay market value for it) but it's starting to get a bit discouraging. Lots of showings over the weekend and another yesterday, dreading getting ready for more over the weekend:(. I don't know what we will do if we don't get the possession date we want (which is August 23rd). We have talked about renting out the house until the Spring, but I don't know if that will be worth the hassle. I didn't think it would take this long. We can just keep it on the market after we leave, but Brian says selling it after we leave the country could have some tax implications. I don't know, it's tough. We'll figure it out though. Someone has to want this house!