Following Your Guidance & Allowing Miracles to Happen Part 2
By Ana-La-Rai • March 12, 2021
Continuing from my last Blog...
The miracles and guidance continued after arriving home in Canada and completing our 2 weeks of required at home quarantine. I was still living in the first house I ever owned... a sweet panabode (log house) with a glorious private treed back yard. I had anchored energy here for the 10+ years since I had bought it and it really was my sanctuary! I loved this house. Owning a house had been a new and mostly wonderful, experience for me.
Our plans had originally been to convert the guest bedroom to an office space for Christian while still remaining a guest room as needed. As he got settled into his new life in Canada, it quickly became apparent our original plan would not work. The space was too small. Option #2 was to convert the backyard shed into a work space for him. This would be a little work but certainly do-able. It would then mean purchasing a metal shed to move all the "stuff" to another location.
We called my realtor Kevin to ask his advice... would it increase the value of the house? What would make the most sense? Did he have any guesses on cost? Did he think our house would sell easily? What was the housing market like right now as the pandemic was in full swing?
We had also talked about selling and finding a new house, one that fit us both but I so loved this house... Kev said he would do some market research and get back to us in a few days.
We sat and talked with our Guides. We stated what we wanted in a new house. We basically said "if you want us to move, then the house sells quickly, in less than 6 weeks at asking price, otherwise we stay and look in a year."
A few days later we sat down again with Kevin to discuss options. He shared about the current market, what was selling and what he would suggest for a list price. We told him we would only try for 6 weeks and if it had not sold, we would take it off the market... was he ok with this? We also shared we would not negotiate or go below asking price as we did not need to move. As we took one final look at all the options of stay or move we soon realized that selling would mean clearing all debt (other than new mortgage), real livable space for us both, a new adventure, and a home that was "ours" not "mine". Once we saw all of this we once again announced to the Universe, "if you want us to move, the house needs to sell quickly and you need to find us a new house". LOL
Before the contract was signed and the for sale sign went up, we went out house hunting with Kevin. We wanted to make sure we could find something we like together in our price range. We went to 4 houses and agreed, yes, we will find something. What an adventure this will be!
The next 2 weeks was spent cleaning, decluttering and preparing the house for the photographs and showings. Wow, my house was not dirty but the deep cleaning for selling was exhausting! Paint touch-ups, new curtains, staging, putting things away, clearing countertops, working in the garden, organizing the shed, re-painting the front door and house numbers turquoise and much more!
When the date for the photographer to come was set, my Guides jumped in and reminded me that I needed to lift all the energetics I had placed over the past 11 years. I had planned to do this before the sale but was told it must be done before the photos were even taken. Christian and I sat down together, called the Guides and began the process of releasing the energetics. I cried... I could not believe how attached I was to this space, this land, this house, MY house. I cried for days. Did I really want to sell? I loved this place, but I loved Christian more and I wanted the best start for our life together in a place that we had picked out together, that was OURS. And then I cried some more. I did BodyTalk sessions and other healing around the releasing. It was SOOOO deep, I was stunned. I realized this home had become my energetic anchor on planet Earth. It was my sanctuary and my safety. So I continued to release from within me, so the land and house were now ready but I was still in the process.
The house was ready and the photographer came and took stunning pictures of the yard and each room. I loved my house even more! If I saw this house I would buy it! LOL
The "For Sale" sign went up late in day on May 13th along with the MLS listing. May 14th we had 6 showings and our first offer. Even the realtor was surprised at the number of showings. The feedback about the house, it's staging, the yard and overall presentation was great! The other realtors and people looking really liked the house. Over the next days of the May long weekend we had a total of 14 showings. We had hoped to have the holiday Monday off to just relax in our yard. Then around noon Kev called and said we needed to leave again, people were coming at 4pm from Port Alberni (another part of the island) to see house for their family who lived in Vancouver. By this point we had received 3 offers in total but some below asking price, some conditional on selling their own house. We'd even had one couple like us... met, married and now wanted an "our" home together.
We were told we would be getting an offer on the next morning which we did. It came in approx. $15,000 below ask and we refused without any counter offer. The 2nd offer came back quickly at our full asking price and we accepted. BONUS, the family who bought the home are awake and could feel the energies in the property!
OMG, we told the Universe if we were to move, make it happen fast. Five days is definitely fast! OMG, now we needed to find a new house for us! We had decided together we would not seriously look at houses (other than the one time) before the house sold as we did not want to get attached to a house and not get it. We wanted to look when we had sold and had a mortgage already approved. Kevin had our list of needs and wants and we said pretty much anywhere on Vancouver Island. We told the Universe to "put us where you want us to be ". Trust... it is huge. We saw 5 houses the next day, Wednesday, May 20th, another one Friday and were we booked to see 5 houses on Saturday, May 23rd. On the Saturday we liked 4 of the 5 houses we saw.
As we searched MLS listings, we had shared with Keven we wanted a property of 1/2 acre or more of land. So all we were seeing in the MLS had met all of our criteria (number of bedrooms, square footage, land size, number of bathrooms, etc). I had been guided to also follow a couple of other real estate listings. I saw one, with not great pics, and asked Kevin to include it our visits. It was in a place I had never heard of on Vancouver Island. With the pictures you could tell it had an "ocean view" but quite far away. We had both always wanted to be by the water, but alas, it was just NOT in the budget.
This house I had found on another site, that had smaller yard than we wanted, was our first stop on the Saturday house shopping tour. We tried to get in the front door but Kevin could not find the locked box and key so we decided to first see the back yard. As we walked back and turned the corner to the back yard we were both taken back... It was the first place we had seen which the back yard was as nice as the one we already had! We wandered the yard with it's 9 fruit trees, water fountain, patio, workshop and ocean views. WOW. Then we look up and hear Kevin sharing to come see the house. We walked up stairs into a sun room, that overlooked the garden and had even better ocean views. We wandered the house and then stepped out onto a huge deck with a full outdoor covered kitchen and more ocean views. The colours were awful, but that was easily fixed. It was in good shape and we found out it had been re-done from top to bottom over the past 8 years. You could feel the love that had been put into the house, the yard and all the changes. As we drove away to see the next house I said let's just make an offer on this one and Kevin said "no, wait, you have 4 more houses to see!)
When we saw this house on May 23rd it had already been on the market just over 2 months. They had listed the week Covid had hit and no one was entering homes! The couple who owned has already bought a new place and were already living part-time in their new home as they continued renovations. (in other words, they were motivated sellers!). There was another showing waiting in the driveway when we left. The price of the house had just dropped by $15,000 bringing it into our budget. LOL! This was the first house we both liked and could see us living in, AND it had the bonus of ocean views!!! The day went well as we toured homes on Vancouver Island and Gabriola Island, liking so many. In the end it came down to 2 for very different reasons, both on streets named for colours (White Road and Green Road). As we looked at options, it was clear which house was ours, the one with ocean views. We made an offer, it went back & forth quickly and we had bought our new house! We realized it had been 5 days to sell my house and it had then been 5 days later to buy our house! Not long after I heard many people say how stressful it all was, as they'd see a house and the same day 4-5 offers would come in. Surprise, surprise, we bought at the perfect time. Mortgage rates had dropped, my house had increased in value, and people were still staying at home with Covid.
I had forgotten to share that we had both been anchoring energy every day since deciding to sell, into our new place... the one we did not know about. This was a tip my Guides had given me long ago when I bought my first house. It really helps you to find where you are supposed to live!
We felt so blessed, so guided and so supported! I could never have imagined that we would sell my house and buy our house all within 10 days with almost no stress! I could never imagined we would have ocean views from every room. The whole process was another confirmation of "trusting the Universe" and trusting my Guides.
The more you can trust your Guides and your Self, the more life flows with you... the better your life gets. I wish for each of you a great life, filled with laughter, joy, family, friendships and love. May we all remember our own magnificence and live our best lives!
Ana-La-Rai
March 2021
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