New house in Nashville

Liz and I went to Nashville last week and we did some looking around at houses available there but since we are not moving until late this summer it is hard to look at houses now. Even if we find one we like it is not likely to be on the market when we need to buy one.

While we were looking our realtor found a new housing development and they have one house they were just getting ready to build that is perfect size and price for us. Plus they have great deals right now with free options so we can add a lot of things to the house to really make the house ours.

So we went ahead and made an offer and asked for some additional concessions and they agreed. So we are building a house. It is pretty scary thing since we already own a home and need to sell it, but we both think that it will sell pretty quickly. We just have a lot of work to do to get it ready to be put on the market.

The builder that is building our new home had an existing house that is in the process of being sold that is the same floor plan as the house we are getting so we were able to go in and take some pictures. Here they are :( click on picture)

House in Nashville

"Scotty Doesn't Know - Lustra" from the movie Eurotrip

Remember this one it is just too funny!

Sarah Silverman "I'm F*cking Matt Damon" on Jimmy Kimmel

Moving to Nashville

It now seems like it is for sure now that we are moving to Nashville. I say it like that because I am still in a little bit of shock. It is just not like me to change things in my life. The odd thing is I like change. For the most part I am excited about the move. I will not be great to move away from friends and family or to have to sell the house because of all of the work involved. It will be nice to be in a city that has four seasons instead of two. It will also be nice to have new land to explore both in the city and having many new things within driving distance.

For those of you who don’t know the whole store my wife is working on her PhD at UTD in political science. She now really wants to pursue the academic job and would like to start in a better place than she would if she graduated from UTD who has a young political science PhD program. She applied to Vanderbilt University and UNC and was accepted to both but she decided she liked Vanderbilt better. Plus I can keep my job at XO and just transfer to the Nashville office. In North Carolina it would be much harder because XO does not have an office close and the only one in the state was just opened and it would not be easy to move there.

We now have to go through the exercise of getting the house ready to sell. Unfortunately the house is not ready for even close friends to come over. We (I) am still in the middle (of the end) of finishing our hall bathroom remodel. We still have to remodel the master bath, fix broken tile in the kitchen, paint the whole house interior, an pack up a lot of stuff so we don’ look like pack rats.

The bottom line we have a lot to do very little time to finish it and most of our time is already taken up by other crazy things like work, school, sleeping.

If anyone wants to come over and do some work please feel free.