craigslist is the most powerful advertising tool on the planet

Or, at least it gave us plenty to stress about.

We've had nearly twenty calls or emails of interest from our craigslist posting for renting our house. Way overwhelming. We have shown the house to two couples, and will show it to a third on Friday.

Almost half of the interested parties are from out-of-state, something we weren't expecting. A lot of them actually seem more serious than the local callers.

We're doing credit checks and taking applications, trying to do everything the way we're supposed to. There's a lot to think about. Too much. But I think we're close to getting it all squared away. Hopefully. At least, we have some promising applicants and are looking forward to trying to get a lease signed with them.

Anyway. Renting a house is stressful. Is that a surprise? Not really, I guess. But it is...er...stressful!

Yikes!

Yeaugh! We got so many calls and emails we took the posting off craigslist! So now you can't see it anymore!

Inspection done, now we just wait....

Ok... so we had our inspection yesterday. Everything is sound! So I took some more pictures of the inside. Of course I put them on the blog in backwards order...so it would be best for you to start at the end and go back up, that is if you want to move through the house in some form of order. They might seem random but I tried to go through the house in order from room to room. Also, we haven't figured out how to rotate some of the pictures and have them stay rotated, so sorry for some of the sideways pictures.

START AT THE BOTTOM FIRST!

Front walk way, looking southwest.

Entrance to storage!

Storage!!!!

View from upstairs window out to front walk way.

Windows facing north in small bedroom.

Upstairs hallway. Master bedroom on the right, small bedroom on the left.

Upstairs bathroom.

Master bedroom looking out towards hall with bathroom and other small bedroom.

Master bedroom. Windows face south.

More wood paneling and stairs...

Ugly wood panel room. This is the room is a funny entrance room, with the sliding glass door, stairs, and right off the living room.

Front door. That window faces south.

View of fireplace in living room and front door.

View of dinning room from the living room. Kitchen through the door on the right.

Downstairs bathroom.

Looking down the downstairs hallway. TV room is to the left, bedroom to the right. Bathroom to the left, closet to the right.

Downstairs bedroom across the hall from the TV room. Left window faces east, right window faces south. Love the floral...should we ask to keep it?

TV room. Window faces east.

Looking into the room below from the dinning room and the door to the hallway.

Same room as below, looking outside to the east and the door to the TV room.

Same room as below. Looking at water heater.

Looking out into the dinning room. This is a room that has two doors- one to dinning room and then one to the TV room.

Looking out to back door and bathroom off of kitchen.

Those windows face out to the west.

That door leads to the laundry room from the kitchen. Country kitchen!

Inside laundry room/back entrance into the kitchen.

View of out building/chicken shed. Just left of the picture below. Notice the apple tree!

Just to the left of picture below.

View of garden looking south from the back entrance and back of garage.

View of the back entrance to the garden.

Now we are around the back entrance. That is the laundry room and the back out building in the back.

View of front of house, just right of the front door. Notice the odd placement of the sliding glass door. This is the southside of the house

View of detached garage and entrance to garden from the front walkway. Looking north east.

Holy cow!

Some people know, but we've been doing a little house shopping the last few weeks. This weekend we went and did it. Bought a new house. What!?

Pending inspection, of course, and all that. It's got a great huge yard/garden area, a shop, a small garage, and plenty, plenty of space inside. Lots of sunlight. The things we really wanted. Anyway. Very exciting and also sort of Freak out! Okay...mostly freak out. Because Gah! We just bought a house!

We brought eight people over to look at the house today, before we heard if our offer was accepted. We tromped about and talked it over and discussed pros and cons and proish cons and connish pros. It has lots of cosmetic projects for us to work on. Lots of weeding to do. Lots of rocks to pick up. One room of ugly wood paneling to discard. But it has room for: Working on bikes! Waxing skis! A chest freezer! More bikes! A table saw!

Gah!

Plus, we won our soccer game today, after losing three in a row.

Holy cow! House! Geh!