Posting to facebook?

smiley2

Just a silly question.  When (if you did) did you feel comfortable posting to facebook that you were moving?  P&S was signed today (yes, a Sunday...).  We've told our friends/family we see regularly, but no one else.  Did anyone feel comfortable posting to facebook or should I continue to lie low?

I'm just SO excited- we'd been looking for TWO years and five months (DH and I couldn't agree for a while and the particular town we wanted to move to can be hard to find a place- things often go for over asking within hours of going on the market).

Anyway, I know it's silly, just curious!

Beth&Derek

I didn't post very much online until our mortgage was approved and we got a definite closing date. Sooo much can happen between signing a p&s and closing on the house and I didn't feel comfortable posting anything on facebook until I knew everything was approved.

PurplePandamania

I posted when our offer on our new place was accepted... Then I didn't really mention it again until I posted a photo of us standing outside the new house on move-in day. But I'm just very selective about what I post on FB in general, so maybe you write more often...

nsfw

I posted when we signed our purchase agreement, when they broke ground and some photos of progress on our house (we built). Then again when we closed.

MarieSD

I waited until every possible obstacle was passed. For me, I remember waiting after the offer was accepted, after we'd had the inspection and the buyer agreed to fix all the things we required, after our 10-day window to back out was over, after the appraisal of the house came back at or below our purchase price, AND our mortgage broker told us the loan had been tentatively approved (meaning it had gone through, there was just still some more rubber-stamping to do).

It was perhaps two weeks before our closing date. (We'd had a six-week timeline between offer acceptance and closing, so it was a long time to keep everything quiet!)

breaness

I'm definitely one of those online over-sharers. I posted the day that we put the offer in with a photo of the house from the listing, again when our offer was accepted, and a few more times along the process. It was a very dramatic process for us and we got a ridiculous amount of congratulations (my guess is more than if the saga hadn't been outlined) when we finally got the keys. 

I'm also very selective with Facebook friends and I don't have anyone on there that I want to have that information, or our address for that matter and my privacy settings are pretty secure. 

smiley2

Ahhhh.... I suppose I should wait a bit longer, then....  It seems like whenever I run into someone I haven't seen in a few months one of their first questions is "how's the house hunting going???" so I know some folks will be interested.  But I'll try to hold off for another 5ish weeks!!  I'm still nervous something will fall through despite everything going smoothly so far.....

Susie Derkins

I'd want both an inspection done and mortgage approval before broadcasting the news.

They're both dealbreakers, and the first one can have some surprises.

LadyExtravaganza

I am closing in 3 weeks and still haven't posted anything about it on FB, or told many people IRL. Whenever someone comes over and see the "Sale Pending" sign on our lawn, they are shocked.

Our seller has his mortgage committment to buy our house and is just waiting for closing. We have our mortgage tentatively approved (pending the mortgage inspection on the house we are buying). Everything is going 100% according to plan.

I just feel like selling and buying all at once leaves too much room for something to go wrong. So I probably won't share it with the world until the day before or the day of closing. 

curlylocks3

I don't think I posted anything until the day we moved the last stuff from our apartment and cleaned it and then I posted "Goodbye, Old Address!". Most of our friends knew when we put in an offer, when it got accepted and when we closed but I just don't use facebook to post a ton of stuff.

pittielover2

I am planning on posting once our mortgage is approved and we have a closing date. We are buying a family home so it is a sale from my parents to us. I can't imagine buying a non-family home, this is nervewracking enough!