The house has been listed for a week now.  No big fixes, staging, etc. this time.  Just cleaning up the rooms and the boxes.  As is.

I understand there’s not the competition there was last time either, as far as a perfectly done-up, immaculate looking house with all the right granite countertops, new carpeting, and 100% beige etc.  Apparently this time some of our competition has holes in the walls, missing faucets, all kinds of interesting things that angry people do and take when they’re walking away from their foreclosures.

So the fact that our house is clean, relatively uncluttered and has all it’s working parts and walls is pretty good.  We don’t have the money to do all that this time anyway.  The last time we listed it, 2 years ago, we spent over $10,000, and months on do-it-yourself projects painting, sprucing up, etc.

The realtor at that time even had us hire a window washer ($300).  Maids to scrub bathrooms & kitchen: $200.

We haven’t had any lookers yet.  But at least when we do, I won’t feel resentful when they walk away after I’ve spent a ton of money on silly stuff I don’t even like (to impress them!?).