We're now 99% moved. I used my first holiday of my new job to pack up the condo and move. I'm exhausted. I can only imagine how my brother Rick feels, as he did a lot of heavy lifting on both sides of the move (Rick's wife, my husband, my parents, and my other brothers helped, but either to load or unload, not both). Many thanks, Rick, I couldn't have done it without you. We left a few items in the condo: the minimum stuff we'll need when we go back to paint and clean and otherwise ready the place for listing. I've been concerned about this since the day I bought the place--every dark spot in the carpet or scratch on the countertop or crack in the drywall I've thought, "that reduces the resale value." Apparently I hadn't worried enough. It's amazing how all these little things can accumulate over the course of 5 years. It's the time of truth. When I bought the place I thought I was getting a bargain. How will my "bargain" hold up, 5 years later, as a lot of residential housing has been put up in what were cornfields, and the housing bubble has sprung a leak? I'm pretty sure we can get our money back out, but it would be really nice to make some money on the deal. I'm very interested to see where our agent suggests we list it. The good news is that we can afford to leave it on the market. The biggest drawback of this is that we still have to pay our condo association--and that's money that we're not getting back and isn't working for us a whole lot, since we won't be using heat, water, or trash pickup. Bank interest on the place is low--we could leave it on the market several months and make that back. I'm sure between me and Josh we can come up with some sort of minimization curve that will tell us how long we're willing to leave it on the market for what price. (Though Josh would probably look at it as a game of "Deal or No Deal" and frame the question in terms of "expectation value".)