After careful consideration, I think we're going to sell our house and move to yonder suburbs before the baby is born. The plan was always to move afterwards, but it makes more sense to get it out of the way before, for the following reasons:
(a) We currently live an hour away from the hospital where I'm planning to deliver. There are a dozen hospitals that are closer, including two within 10 minutes of home, but I wanted to stay with the same group of doctors my mom and my grandmother both went to. Sentimentality is nice, but nightmare rush-hour labor scenarios abound.
(b) I don't want to clear out our middle bedroom—currently used as an office—and turn it into an adorable nursery only to tear it all apart again. Nor do I want to put the baby to sleep in a cardboard box because we're waiting until we're in the new house to buy her a crib.
(c) I don't want to waste my maternity leave packing and unpacking, and even thinking that I'm going to have the time is a gross underestimation of how complicated our lives are going to become after the big event.
We've never sold a property before. Last week we met with my uncle, who is going to be our buyer's agent, and we have an appointment next Wednesday for a home market evaluation with a woman who is going to be our seller's agent. It's nice knowing we'll have someone working for us on both sides. If we can price our place right, it should go fairly quickly. Then we can focus on the harder task: finding a move-in condition house under 50 years old in a town with a good school system that has 3 good-sized bedrooms, at least 1.5 baths, an updated kitchen, a nice yard, a deck, a garage (hardwoodandcentralACaplus)... that isn't overpriced. Ha. Should be fun.
(a) We currently live an hour away from the hospital where I'm planning to deliver. There are a dozen hospitals that are closer, including two within 10 minutes of home, but I wanted to stay with the same group of doctors my mom and my grandmother both went to. Sentimentality is nice, but nightmare rush-hour labor scenarios abound.
(b) I don't want to clear out our middle bedroom—currently used as an office—and turn it into an adorable nursery only to tear it all apart again. Nor do I want to put the baby to sleep in a cardboard box because we're waiting until we're in the new house to buy her a crib.
(c) I don't want to waste my maternity leave packing and unpacking, and even thinking that I'm going to have the time is a gross underestimation of how complicated our lives are going to become after the big event.
We've never sold a property before. Last week we met with my uncle, who is going to be our buyer's agent, and we have an appointment next Wednesday for a home market evaluation with a woman who is going to be our seller's agent. It's nice knowing we'll have someone working for us on both sides. If we can price our place right, it should go fairly quickly. Then we can focus on the harder task: finding a move-in condition house under 50 years old in a town with a good school system that has 3 good-sized bedrooms, at least 1.5 baths, an updated kitchen, a nice yard, a deck, a garage (hardwoodandcentralACaplus)... that isn't overpriced. Ha. Should be fun.
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