Well we have a house...hopefully, pending successful inspections. We will close officially in mid May....pending all the inspections.
I want to be more excited but I kinda waiting in doom for the inspection to go wrong ...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
I think...I hope...
We went back out today to search for houses...now let me tell you up front I have certain ...shall we call them *feelings* about some things. Apparently houses are not one of those things I have special *feelings* about when I first look.
I found a house on Craigslist (yes, I am a Craigslist junkie) anyways found it on Craigslist, its in a sought after neighborhood in one of the nicer areas of Springfield and it was in our price range. I sent it to Drew to send to our realator... the pics showed a great house. lots of room and yummyness. We got a time to go look at it and of course I had to tell Drew that this was the one (before I saw it) I said I had a feeling...I am telling you right now I did have a feeling a good one, and then we walked inside. My good feeling turned into a puff of smoke, this house was all ceiling, very little house. And so the cycle of my disappointment continues.
We go the next house ... which by the way has been on the market for almost a year...yes about 365 days aka long time...we went in thinking something has to be wrong with this house we just get to have another "adventure". We walked in and I tell you I got a good vibe, the kitchen made me gooey inside and the laundry room made me smile, but the secret crawl space (for the laundry basket) between the laundry room and master bath made me giggle and then climb through. Basically its a spot in the master bath that has the apperance of a cabnient on the floor...but then u open it and boom you just slide you laundry basket (full of dirty or clean clothes) into the laundry room. This made me giggle purely b/c I would not have to carry a basket of clothes all the way around to the laudry room from the master bedroom....or I could just crawl through it (which by the way is good exercise). The big bedrooms and openness in the family room and did I mention the kitchen...made me extremley excited...
and so we make our first offer on a house....here we go
I found a house on Craigslist (yes, I am a Craigslist junkie) anyways found it on Craigslist, its in a sought after neighborhood in one of the nicer areas of Springfield and it was in our price range. I sent it to Drew to send to our realator... the pics showed a great house. lots of room and yummyness. We got a time to go look at it and of course I had to tell Drew that this was the one (before I saw it) I said I had a feeling...I am telling you right now I did have a feeling a good one, and then we walked inside. My good feeling turned into a puff of smoke, this house was all ceiling, very little house. And so the cycle of my disappointment continues.
We go the next house ... which by the way has been on the market for almost a year...yes about 365 days aka long time...we went in thinking something has to be wrong with this house we just get to have another "adventure". We walked in and I tell you I got a good vibe, the kitchen made me gooey inside and the laundry room made me smile, but the secret crawl space (for the laundry basket) between the laundry room and master bath made me giggle and then climb through. Basically its a spot in the master bath that has the apperance of a cabnient on the floor...but then u open it and boom you just slide you laundry basket (full of dirty or clean clothes) into the laundry room. This made me giggle purely b/c I would not have to carry a basket of clothes all the way around to the laudry room from the master bedroom....or I could just crawl through it (which by the way is good exercise). The big bedrooms and openness in the family room and did I mention the kitchen...made me extremley excited...
and so we make our first offer on a house....here we go
Friday, March 27, 2009
House Hunting
Oh Perfect House ..where oh where can you be...
So Drew and I are house hunting...we have gone through about 10 and found a good one but then found out that wouldn't work out ...we had to keep looking... So we are going back out this weekend.
This business of house hunting and buying is just not for me. I'm used to going to the store, picking out what I like and going home with it...but with house buying you have to make offers, negotiate with the seller and the bank. To many hoops to jump through for me, to much unsureness (thats my own made up word) of what if we don't get it, will we get it and that evil temptation to imagine your stuff here and there, what colors would work for the walls...etc...
I just want to pick it out, buy it and have it...
So Drew and I are house hunting...we have gone through about 10 and found a good one but then found out that wouldn't work out ...we had to keep looking... So we are going back out this weekend.
This business of house hunting and buying is just not for me. I'm used to going to the store, picking out what I like and going home with it...but with house buying you have to make offers, negotiate with the seller and the bank. To many hoops to jump through for me, to much unsureness (thats my own made up word) of what if we don't get it, will we get it and that evil temptation to imagine your stuff here and there, what colors would work for the walls...etc...
I just want to pick it out, buy it and have it...
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