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Remember how I said that although I was really sad, there was some really exciting stuff going on? Well, I didn’t tell you at the time, because nothing was settled, but – we’re moving!!!

We own an adorable 1931 Tudor in pretty-much-downtown Sacramento. We have lovingly updated it and when I tell people who have been over to our house that we’re moving, they all say “What!? You’re leaving your cute house!? With the awesome backyard!?” (and of course additional comments regarding the state of the economy and questions regarding our sanity). But trust me, we have thought about it long and hard and everything is working out beautifully!!!

We put our house on the market on Thursday the 30th. The next day we had an offer for $10k over asking! We haven’t met him yet, but we love our buyer. Every dealing with him has just been really open, frank, and positive. So we’ve made sure to treat him the same way.

That karma has been returned to us in our role as buyers for our new house. We had only been looking in very desirable areas around downtown. Financially we could get into those areas, but only in overly-urban areas or in really nice areas but only in barely-bigger/less-updated houses. So we expanded our search to the closer burbs.

Our realtor, Jeanine, predicted it correctly – we knew it was our house the second we walked in. Actually we pretty much knew when we saw the Open House ad online. We saw it alone on Sunday the 2nd and then Jeanine and Uncle Rainer came back with us on Monday the 3rd and we put in an offer. So basically we put our house on the market, sold it, and bought a house in four days. We are moving to the ‘burbs! Really, really nice, established, green, close to the Sacramento River, good school district burbs.

Seriously, the house is so freaking cool our heads are about to explode. We knew we loved our new house, but we’re finding out that it’s highly desirable because it is a “Streng Home.” From what I understand, the Streng Brothers built homes in Sacramento and the surrounding area in 70s, and their architect was Carter Sparks. People are pretty obsessive about their Streng homes. And I’m not knocking that in the least. We are FREAKING EXCITED about our new house! Look – there’s even a Flickr pool for Strengs. I’m now a member and can’t wait to post some pics.

I have SO much more to say about this topic. Look for many interior design and landscaping posts to come! I will leave you with a few pictures from the real estate posting of our house. I can’t wait to get in there and put our stamp on it. YAY!!!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 8:53 pm and is filed under community, design, fun, home, nostalgia, West Coast.