Saturday we put in an offer on a house and Sunday it was accepted. The sellers are highly motivated to move out and we as the buyers are highly motivated to move in. Good combination, don't you think? We have only about four weeks to make this happen without having to move our household goods into storage first, so cross your fingers for us.
The house is lacking a couple of things we were trying to get, namely a bit of acreage and a top-notch school for the girls. It is in a normal neighborhood, so we are right next to the neighbors on either side and the school is rated a 7 out of 10. Not the 8, 9, or 10 we were hoping for, but not bad.
The things it does have are 4 bedrooms along with both a living room and a family room. It also has a swimming pool and what dh calls a "pool house" which is a small bedroom with a bathroom that opens onto the pool area. It's attached to the back of the carport. I can see a certain 17 year old boy having it for his bedroom this summer.
Dh has his work cut out for him now--he's going to push everything through just as fast as he can!
Showing posts with label house hunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house hunting. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Champagne tastes, (root) beer budget
AKA "house hunting." Ugh. I just called our future renter and asked her what she thought about pushing the move-in date back a couple of weeks. I'm kind of glad there was no answer so she can listen to her message recorder and think it over without being in the spot. It would be cheaper for them since their current place is about 2/3 the price of ours, and she doesn't think their current landlord is going to rent the place out immediately, so HER landlord might not mind.
It's all very frustrating. Dh and I have been working full-bore on finding housing in the new location, but are coming up against roadblocks every way we turn, it seems. Now we're having to try to get a construction loan for the house our offer's been accepted on simply because one bathroom is gutted and there is no stove or dishwasher. Tell me how many homes there are out there that have only one bathroom and no dishwasher and require you to bring your own stove. MILLIONS??? Of course, but this one can't get a conventional loan. So we press on.
It's all very frustrating. Dh and I have been working full-bore on finding housing in the new location, but are coming up against roadblocks every way we turn, it seems. Now we're having to try to get a construction loan for the house our offer's been accepted on simply because one bathroom is gutted and there is no stove or dishwasher. Tell me how many homes there are out there that have only one bathroom and no dishwasher and require you to bring your own stove. MILLIONS??? Of course, but this one can't get a conventional loan. So we press on.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
House hunting
The girls had a week of spring break last week so we took a trip to dh's new city to check it out and look around for a house to buy/rent/etc. If you want to know where we are going, email me or leave a note here and if I know you and you aren't AEM, I'll send you an email.
Anyway, the new city is huge compared to our current village. There is lots to choose from when it comes to housing, but we have the proverbial problem of having champagne tastes on a beer budget. We want the best public schools for our daughters, but those schools tend to be in the expensive areas, and our budget is only average. We put in a couple offers to no avail. When I left on Saturday afternoon there was nothing in the works. However, over Sunday dh was busy online and the real estate agent pulled up a few things Monday.
Dh went to look at some places tonight and one of them is very workable so he was going to call the agent as soon as we got off the phone together to have her make the offer tomorrow morning. He left her with signed papers so all she has to do is write in the amount and present it. This place is "Santa Fe" in the extreme, with some . . . "interesting" paint choices. It would need lots of paint everywhere and new floor coverings upstairs and the removal of a bit of the Santa Fe kitsch, but it could work. That's all I'm going to say or think about it though, because I don't want to get attached to it quite yet.
We joined the zoo while we were there. Fifty dollars gets us in for a year, plus gets us in or at least a discount at lots of other zoos, should we happen to do any traveling. We went twice during the time we were there. I thought the girls would be bored going twice in three days but we actually spent more time the second time we went. It's a nice, smaller zoo. Very clean, too.
I believe our moving date will be sometime in June. A lot has to happen between now and then, but I'm looking forward to our next adventure.
Anyway, the new city is huge compared to our current village. There is lots to choose from when it comes to housing, but we have the proverbial problem of having champagne tastes on a beer budget. We want the best public schools for our daughters, but those schools tend to be in the expensive areas, and our budget is only average. We put in a couple offers to no avail. When I left on Saturday afternoon there was nothing in the works. However, over Sunday dh was busy online and the real estate agent pulled up a few things Monday.
Dh went to look at some places tonight and one of them is very workable so he was going to call the agent as soon as we got off the phone together to have her make the offer tomorrow morning. He left her with signed papers so all she has to do is write in the amount and present it. This place is "Santa Fe" in the extreme, with some . . . "interesting" paint choices. It would need lots of paint everywhere and new floor coverings upstairs and the removal of a bit of the Santa Fe kitsch, but it could work. That's all I'm going to say or think about it though, because I don't want to get attached to it quite yet.
We joined the zoo while we were there. Fifty dollars gets us in for a year, plus gets us in or at least a discount at lots of other zoos, should we happen to do any traveling. We went twice during the time we were there. I thought the girls would be bored going twice in three days but we actually spent more time the second time we went. It's a nice, smaller zoo. Very clean, too.
I believe our moving date will be sometime in June. A lot has to happen between now and then, but I'm looking forward to our next adventure.
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