House for sale

As we are planning to go back to India in July this year, we have put our house on sale over the 8th April 2012 weekend. The site we listed our house is www.owners.com by paying a small fee that lists the home automatically in 24 other sister sites. It took me about 4-5 hours to draft the description of the house. As we always do with our combined projects, we draft, read and get it proofed by each other and finalize it, so this time also we did the same. And we decided to go without an agent this time, so not sure what will happen. Having known all kinds of horror stories from everywhere, we just proceeded. Not to mention, there is another house on sale just one house apart from our house in the same lane just in front of the community pool. So, there seems to be a lot of competition.
After listing, the waiting began. We would go to the site and check how many people have already seen the house and feel happy that people are interested.
On 13th April 2012 morning about 9 AM our door bell rang, I thought may be a courier guy. Opened the door and found a Vietnamese family with a very cute 2 year old at our door step. They had a printout of our advertisement from zillow.com, which unfortunately did not have our phone number. They said, they saw the ad and decided to drop by. Then they said, they would like to see the housee. Then I had to reluctantly let them in, although we had not done any cleaning before that. They saw the house and  I can tell that they liked the house. next thing they said is they will bring their older kids the next day to show the house. It was good sign and we were happy that they liked the place. That same day my friends came over and it was a bit hectic. I had also signed up for the chakra yoga class the next day and we were suppose to take our friends for sight seeing. So, I asked my husband to drop my friends at Dallas aroboratum and come back the next day, so that I can take up my yoga class. Because someone has to be home for the house showing business. After he left, I went to the bank, which is just few blocks away from home. I had few checks lying for quite sometimes to be en-cashed. On my way back, I saw already a vechicle parked on our drive way and the same gentleman is roaming infront of the community center with his kids. I called them in and they saw the house again and apparently liked it. We talked about the price little bit and they came back to us with their price the next day, which was also acceptable by us. Then on Monday he is back with a contract. I can't believe within 10 days of listing our house and without completing any formalities such as MLS listing etc. and in this housing crisis period, we are in a contract. Not sure about what will happen next, but I am very excited with the turn of events. Things are happening so quickly. Unbelievable , must be some past Karma....

By the way, if you want to download the contract form, it is here :

http://www.trec.state.tx.us/formslawscontracts/forms/forms-contracts.asp
Form#20-11 is applicable for signing of the 1-4 Family Residential Contract (our case)