Selling our Home Sweet Home!

In 1998 we decided that our family had outgrown our starter home, so we decided to build our larger dream house while the boys were still at home to help us enjoy it.  After studying countless floor plans, we finally took the best ideas from our favorite plans and drew up our perfect home ourselves.  Designing every detail was fascinating.  But it was made more difficult by the "help" you get from taking two little boys (ages 9 and 7) to pick out lighting fixtures, door knobs, brick, windows, etc. etc.  I distinctly remember the boys using a length of PVC pipe and a crumpled up receipt to play ball in the aisles at Lowe's because they were so bored with the process.

Our new custom house turned into a great home to raise two active boys, and we loved living in it.  So we had to be really excited about full-time RVing to make the decision to sell it.  We also recognized that it was a bigger house than two people needed since the boys were now graduated.  And the wonderful yard that we designed 15 years ago was becoming a lot of work to maintain now that the lawn mowers had gone off to college.

We didn't want to wait until the last minute and be delayed from our travel because we still owned a home.  So we decided to put a "for sale" sign in the front yard in June.  We had no realtor, and took out no ads, but we quickly started getting calls to see the house.  We were the best salespeople for the house that we designed, because we knew all of its best features intimately.  It didn't hurt that we have a great neighborhood in a booming town too.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau figures,Weatherford, Oklahoma has been named one of the ten fastest growing small towns in the United States.  We were blessed with a fast sale that went smoothly.  We found ourselves homeless on July 12, 2014--exactly 27 years after we moved into our first starter home, and exactly 26  years after our first son was born!