Last spring Lisa and I decided we should try to move. The primary motivating factor for the decision was to make sure our youngest daughter could stay in the school she is transferred to. She has responded fairly well (not great) to the learning environment there and we'd like to continue that. Thus, we put our beloved house on the market.
That was in May. Six months later the house was still on the market but for about $25,000 less. We decided to give up and gamble about her transfer being accepted next year.
Giving up, it seems, really is hard to do. During the six month ordeal of looking at houses and having our house on call for random people to walk through, we developed new reasons for wanting to move. We still love our house, the park, and the fantastic river view. However, Lisa has formed new and stronger friendships with people in the other neighborhood. Our kids friends are all in that other neighborhood. The majority of our life, it seems, exists in a neighborhood we don't live in.
Over the Christmas break Lisa and I discussed it and we've decided to once again try to sell our house. We haven't settled on what price we will list it at this time. But we have decided to broaden the range of houses we will look at in the other neighborhood in an effort to find a house we really love.
We had found one last year but, sadly, that one was bought by the only serious buyer who had considered our house. In fact he had narrowed it down to two houses ours and the one we wanted. Life is a tricky thing sometimes.
That's our house currently. We've actually put up a picket fence around it at this point but that is what it looked like last summer.
Visit this page at zillow to get more details on the house as well as some interior photos (it really is an awesome house).