In March we looked at a house down the road a mile or so from Matt's parents. We really didn't plan on buying a house for another year but it was close to family and cheap, as it was a foreclosure. Well, it didn't really work out but it did give us house fever. I realized that houses were not as expensive here as where I grew up and we really did almost have a down payment of 20% already saved. And so the hunt began. We spent HOURS on the internet looking at houses. It seemed long, although it really wasn't. We really liked another foreclosure and put in an offer in April. The house was given to someone else even though we had the highest bid. We were disappointed but later we found that God was protecting us from a huge, expensive mess. We had a few more experiences of looking at houses online, thinking 'this one looks nice' and we found that pictures can be very forgiving. On a Friday night we picked out 4 more houses to look at with our realtor and made a Monday appointment. The next day another house popped up and it looked really nice - possibly beautiful cabinets, a nice laundry room and dining area, one room that looked a little interesting but could probably be fixed with paint . . . I told Matt and I think that might be our house. It was the first one we looked at that Monday night and I fell in love. I hardly wanted to look at the other 4 houses. AND the room that looked iffy in the pictures turned out to have greenish walls that looked fine and a built in entertainment center that perfectly fits our flat panel television. SCORE! And, by the way, it did have beautiful cabinets. We wrote an offer and it was ours! We closed on May 31st and moved in June.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Where we left off . . .
In March we looked at a house down the road a mile or so from Matt's parents. We really didn't plan on buying a house for another year but it was close to family and cheap, as it was a foreclosure. Well, it didn't really work out but it did give us house fever. I realized that houses were not as expensive here as where I grew up and we really did almost have a down payment of 20% already saved. And so the hunt began. We spent HOURS on the internet looking at houses. It seemed long, although it really wasn't. We really liked another foreclosure and put in an offer in April. The house was given to someone else even though we had the highest bid. We were disappointed but later we found that God was protecting us from a huge, expensive mess. We had a few more experiences of looking at houses online, thinking 'this one looks nice' and we found that pictures can be very forgiving. On a Friday night we picked out 4 more houses to look at with our realtor and made a Monday appointment. The next day another house popped up and it looked really nice - possibly beautiful cabinets, a nice laundry room and dining area, one room that looked a little interesting but could probably be fixed with paint . . . I told Matt and I think that might be our house. It was the first one we looked at that Monday night and I fell in love. I hardly wanted to look at the other 4 houses. AND the room that looked iffy in the pictures turned out to have greenish walls that looked fine and a built in entertainment center that perfectly fits our flat panel television. SCORE! And, by the way, it did have beautiful cabinets. We wrote an offer and it was ours! We closed on May 31st and moved in June.
It's been a LONG time . . .
We have had a TON of changes in 2012 and as I figured . . . this blog would be forgotten. This Christmas Break I spent organizing our house which I never really finished when we moved in. Maybe now I'll have the time to be blogging...? We'll see! I have about a hundred things to blog about . . . I guess we'll take them one at a time. Two Thousand Twelve in Review. . .
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