After a week of silence, I have returned. I have returned with an excuse why the podcast has been slow in coming and why posts have been so far in between. Over the last month we (Nyana and I) have pulled of yet another trick that most people take months to complete. I am proud to inform you that " El Casa Del Knights " is officially SOLD ! Yes, shock and awe for some of you but its true. Or lovely little house in Hasselt has been Sold and pretty soon, the Knights will be moving.

So .. the back story.  We bought this lovely little crib in Hasselt four years ago (feb 18th to be correct) and completely renovated it (thanx to the help of many of our friends). There where still a few details that needed to be done but overall the house was in picture perfect shape. One problem : It had four bedrooms. And since Nyana and I don't plan on children (those of you who want to convince us .. Don't start) the house was a little too big for us. So with the real estate market becoming a sellers market it was time to sit down and talk about our options. It came down to the  fact that the house was just too big for us. Giving the cat and the dog a separate bedroom was a little too much. And the massive office I have upstairs (suited for a big workstation and a small PC lab) sits a little empty now everything has been replaced by laptops, Virtual machines and TFT displays. 

A few weeks ago we started looking for something smaller. Something more compact to better suite our needs. And when I say a few weeks ago.. I mean it. Nyana (who is the equivalent of real-estate google) found this cute little house in nearby Tongeren that has been completely renovated , is smaller AND sports a cute little backyard with a minute lawn. Minimal maintenance, nice space, classy and very very well oriented ( 3 minutes from the nearest freeway and very close to a nature reserve) So our initial visit to the place ended up with deciding to buy it straight away (our real estate broker was a little gob smacked.. but still) So in two weeks we had found, visited, approved and bought the house. Next up : Selling our own house. This proved to be an even faster ride then we had thought. Over the last month much of our free time had gone into prepping our house for sale. Painting the hallway (Nyana did almost ALL of the work in her spare time) and arranging furniture, taking pictures and preparing everything for the buyers. It was all terribly time consuming but after a few weeks our house was ready for the market. It went on sale last week on Friday ( at 11am ) at 1 PM we had already booked 3 visits from possible buyers, the first hopping by the next day at 1 pm. By 5 pm we had 5 planned showings for the coming Monday. 

Monday comes along and strange people walk through our house, peering and peeking in every corner. I just got so sit there, shut up and let the real estate guy do his work ( actually NOT being the salesman was pretty hard for me) But we managed. By 9pm everybody was gone and we had the first offer. By 9 AM the next day that offer had been matched by another buyer and the first buyer offered us the total asking price. We accepted and 3 days after the house went on the market .. it was sold.

So we will keep you posted about everything that is going down on the whole house behalf. I'll post of the "catalogue" pictures of our house on Flickr , so the voyeurs among you can have a peek in our Crib.