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At long last, a home.
So after much searching, making friends with our fabulous and hilarious real estate agent, and seeing some pretty wacky houses....
We finally found one we liked, had pretty much everything we were looking for in our price range. We made an offer it was accepted and we have passed the inspection phase. So barring a natural disaster of epic proportions - we have our house. We'll close in early September and will be able to take possession shortly thereafter.
It's lovely and has a nice small front yard, and a fenced dog yard in the back - it backs into a ravine so no one will be building right behind us, and while the back yard is weirdly terraced, which makes the dog yard small and impossible to connect to the rest of the "back yard" it's still good enough to have a dog. I would have liked more yard, but hey - nothing's perfect. It has huge front windows, living room, formal dining room, rec room and family room (here comes the pool table!) And four bedrooms. It has a nice master, a jetted tub *wheee* in the master bath, and a great kitchen. The back deck is huge, and there are lots of tall trees around to make shade. The front has these cute little bell lights up the front steps, and I can't wait to add some new plants, but that will probably have to wait for spring. I am curious if I could get grass seed to take if I got it down by...Late September, probably not huh? The back yard is currently wood chips and so is part of the side yard, and is so not....us.
We're talking about how much we can change on the inside in the cosmetic department before we move in, and it's so frustrating to know that we can't get estimates of bids in for the stuff that needs to be contracted out until we get into the house. The apartment lease ends on Halloween (I swore I'd never move on Halloween again, never say never) and I don't know if we can get it all done in the time frame we've got. There are some things I'd just rather not live through, like flooring changes. We'd both love to get everything we want done, but it all depends on what we can afford to do immediately.
But we are super excited and cannot WAIT to get into our own house...and do things like hang pictures, and paint the walls, and.....
It's so exciting!!!! * bouncing up and down *
We finally found one we liked, had pretty much everything we were looking for in our price range. We made an offer it was accepted and we have passed the inspection phase. So barring a natural disaster of epic proportions - we have our house. We'll close in early September and will be able to take possession shortly thereafter.
It's lovely and has a nice small front yard, and a fenced dog yard in the back - it backs into a ravine so no one will be building right behind us, and while the back yard is weirdly terraced, which makes the dog yard small and impossible to connect to the rest of the "back yard" it's still good enough to have a dog. I would have liked more yard, but hey - nothing's perfect. It has huge front windows, living room, formal dining room, rec room and family room (here comes the pool table!) And four bedrooms. It has a nice master, a jetted tub *wheee* in the master bath, and a great kitchen. The back deck is huge, and there are lots of tall trees around to make shade. The front has these cute little bell lights up the front steps, and I can't wait to add some new plants, but that will probably have to wait for spring. I am curious if I could get grass seed to take if I got it down by...Late September, probably not huh? The back yard is currently wood chips and so is part of the side yard, and is so not....us.
We're talking about how much we can change on the inside in the cosmetic department before we move in, and it's so frustrating to know that we can't get estimates of bids in for the stuff that needs to be contracted out until we get into the house. The apartment lease ends on Halloween (I swore I'd never move on Halloween again, never say never) and I don't know if we can get it all done in the time frame we've got. There are some things I'd just rather not live through, like flooring changes. We'd both love to get everything we want done, but it all depends on what we can afford to do immediately.
But we are super excited and cannot WAIT to get into our own house...and do things like hang pictures, and paint the walls, and.....
It's so exciting!!!! * bouncing up and down *