We've "officially" put our house on the market!!!! For those of you that don't know... it's a manufactured home so it's not like your normal house. Therefore we're deciding to sell it FSBO. Selling our house is more like selling a boat...there's a lot less paper work and legal stuff with homes like this. So although we're not completely "ready" to move quite yet we figured it didn't hurt to put a sign in the window. We'll slowly take some pics and get some flyers out there and of course do several virtual and video tours. We plan on probably doing a postcard mailing in the area too. It's a buyer's market which makes us a little nervous BUT we're in a good situation. See, we purchased our home in Illinois and moved it here. Homes in Illinois are A LOT less. So even if we price it lower than the appraised value here, we'll still be quite a bit ahead. Also, we are surrounded by new homes so that should definitely help. Anyway, it's exciting. We're still debating whether we want to live in a small town outside of Rochester or in Rochester. Hence the location question. Which by the way, Brian does bring up a good point...what defines a good location. This is true, it's different for everyone. For me, a good location would of course be in a decent neighborhood (I assumed when I created the poll that of course people would choose a decent neighborhood no matter what) but I would also like to be within walking distance of either a small downtown area or the grocery store and parks or walking trails. In other words I don't want to be in the middle of nowhere where I'd have to drive somewhere all the time. There are of course benefits to that too but personally I think I want to be closer to town. Still struggling with whether or not we want it to be Rochester.
Put a new poll up, by the way...10 to 1 most people would rather have a great location. That 1 person who doesn't is my husband of course :) That doesn't make things much easier now does it?
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