Being a Grown-up
As if it wasn’t official before, (what with having two kids, buying a few vehicles and having a military career) I now really feel like a grown-up. Tonight my husband and I put our first ever offer in for a house. An ENTIRE house. I cannot believe we are actually going to purchase a home. This is actually the reason for so few updates this month. I spend most of my time chasing after the kids or looking at houses.
Well, when we went to look at houses yesterday we found two that we really liked and neither of them had an offer yet. Today we have been going through and listing out the pros and cons of each house trying to decide which one we liked more. It was so hard trying to decide because they both had so many good points, and a few things that made them undesirable. One house had a drainage ditch that is an eyesore and death trap in the back yard. The other one had a sloping backyard that I didn’t like. The one with the death trap in the back yard is move-in ready, the one with the sloping yard has a family in it but a GREAT kitchen. I wish I could just take all of the aspects that I liked about each house and combine them all.
We just put the offer in on the house with the sloping yard and awesome kitchen (it also has a front porch and a fantastic family room.) Part of me thinks that maybe we should have gone with the other house… I don’t know. Hopefully it will all work out in the end.
Update: The realtor for the house has not gotten back in touch with my realtor, and it has been days since we made the offer. Argh! Looks like we might be going for the other house after all, IF it is still available. I doubt it is. Anyway, here is a picture of the house we made the offer on.
Update August 31, 2009: Well, it has been days since we made an offer on our house, and the listing agent never got back with our realtor. I’m so upset because there were a few things about this house that I loved so much, like the huge kitchen and absolutely lovely master bathroom. So, we just put an offer in on the other house. It’s a lovely house, but I still feel bummed.
Update September 2, 2009: Well, we just signed all the paperwork and we have put the house on a contract. We will soon be homeowners!
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