So with the new baby due any day now I've been doing a lot of things to spruce up the condo to sell it and make a move to a bigger place sometime this summer.

What we've done so far...
- I mentioned the chandelier my brother-in-law and I hung.
- I put some closet doors in front of the washer/dryer unit which had just been open.
- Replaced the closet door for the coat closet. The track was all messed up b/c it wasn't installed right by the previous owners.
- Put up new lighting fixtures in the master bath. Required me to move our medicine cabinet down a few inches.

We still need/plan to do a lot though.
- Put up the matching lighting fixture in the guest bath. Which will have me move the cabinet down again.
- Bought some wood flooring for the kitchen at a great price from Home Depot. Will have to have my Dad up to help me install it.
- The previous owners put calk in the showers, INSTEAD of grout, between the tiles. So we'll have to strip that out and put in grout.
- A few places in the wall need to be touched up/evened out and after that...
- Lots of painting.
- During this whole ordeal - packing up, organzing and staging the place while still living there with 3 kids . . . thanksfully my in-laws are moving a little closer so maybe they'll get some quality time with the grandkids while I work on and sell the place . . .

but then there's the task of finding an affordable, spacious new place in Northern Virginia . . . off to zillow I guess.

Comments:

After all the work you have done to the place (and plan to do), it will be almost brand new for whoever buys it!

# posted by  Anonymous : 3/22/07, 12:07 PM

 

Heh, just about, yeah. The northern Virginia market for sellers is so intimidating right now that I want to make sure our place stands out and sells for what we're looking for when we're looking to sell it.

# posted by  Tim : 3/26/07, 1:18 PM

 

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