Facing another move

Buying a house is never easy. We began this process after Christmas when finally we heard what the kids were trying to tell is, to move back to Pittsburgh where our roots reside. We put our Charleston home on the market, and waited through the summer to see what kind of offers we would get. We got none, and we decided in September to take the place off the market. In the meantime, we had bought a condominium in Pittsburgh that we loved, but the woman who sold it to us called and said that the places where she was trying to find to live had dried up, and she wondered if we would sell the place back to her. We agreed, and went through a second closing that gave the place back to her. We were called saints by our kids, but we were confident that what we had done was the right thing.

We put the house back on the market on the first of March, and immediately had a stream of people coming through the door. Ultimately, we got a rather low offer from the one of the lookers and we haggled a bit with him, and eventually arrived at a price. We went back to Pittsburgh over Easter to look for a place to live. Wonderfully, we found an even more attractive condominium in the same plan that the other one was in., It has two larger bedrooms and two full baths and a double garage. We couldn't be happier with our housing situation. All that remains is to close on both of these places, get a mover and transfer everything to Pittsburgh.

We can hardly wait to get back to a place where we will be twenty minutes away from both of our older daughters and only two hours away from Heather, who lives in Cleveland. We hope that this will be our last move before assisted living. We are no strangers to moving, but it has become more tiresome the older that we have gotten.