Friday, January 23, 2009

Two Steps Forward One Step Back

As many of you know, Joel and I have been putting a lot of much needed work into our beloved home. We are planning on putting it on the market sometime soon and realize exactly how hard it is to sell a house now.
We have done a lot of painting and updating but it seems that everytime we take a step forward we also take a step back and it is getting a little frustrating. For example we hire painters to paint the house then we find out several weeks later that they broke a window but it's too late to "pin it on them", we paint the dining room and replace appliances one day, the next we have to hire roofers to clear out our ice damns, I spend a whole day cleaning out closets and refinishing floors and then the vacuum cleaner explodes on me sending a shower of ground up dried cat puke all over the living room. You get the picture.
I know these are all parts of home ownership but it's getting expensive and tiresome so I'm looking for advice:

A: does anyone have a realtor on the East side that they love?
B: does anyone have a vacuum cleaner that has lasted them more than 2 years and still works?

2 comments:

Marni said...

we really liked michael folczynski at howard hanna at cedar/fairmount. he was very attentive but not overbearing. i know we didnt sell our house, but because he isnt one of the big names, i think he has more time to put into things....
also, we have a hoover windtunnel that we got when we moved to cleveland 4.5 years ago (has it really been that long already?) and it is still working perfect- although i guess i shouldnt talk too soon, huh? i hope it doesnt break this weekend!

'BOTB said...

We already replaced the vaccum we got for our wedding shower (and that was 4 years ago)...so we are not vaccum officionados by any means.

We also liked our realtor but not sure how much attention she'd be able to give since she's technically out of the Bay Village office of Howard Hanna.