Yeah, we made an offer on a house today. I feel like such a grown up. Seriously who is letting me make an offer on a house? I am a child. (But seriously I am not, I just kind of get stuck in that mind set.)
So today we looked at 7 houses. Yeah 7. Our day actually started with a nice lunch. We live in a small town where there isn't much to talk about in the food department. With that in mind we decided to randomly drive 30 minutes away to eat. (Which is no longer in our budget. Yeah.)
So that I will remember it when I look back here are the houses we looked at.
P.S. Weird thing about buying a home in a small town where you already live an grew up....you know whose house it is. Which is weird.
Here is number 1
We walked in and knew this wasn't it. It wasn't one thing or another it just wasn't it. And it was kind of small. That was probably it.
This was number 2. It was the leader at this point. (Against the one other house.) The fence was weird on it. It didn't go all the way to the edge of the property. Really odd. And I don't love that it is yellow. We wanted a brick house.
Number 3...which is much more appealing in person than in this picture. The living room and kitchen were absolutely wonderful. But the rest of the house was just a little out of date for us. We are too busy for too many projects in a house. We wanted something we didn't to do a lot to. But we could have lived here. (Winner right now)
Going into the day we thought this house was our number two. But apparently he person who took pictures of this house knew what they were doing. It was not wonderful. The rooms were much smaller than the pictures made them seem. We just couldn't really see ourselves here. It is also on the golf course so we wouldn't have any privacy.
Then we saw this house. Jacob has actually lived here before. Not this exact house, but a house with the exact same layout. We didn't love it. It was really, really small on the inside. The rooms couldn't fit any more than a twin bed. We knew this wasn't it.
Then we saw this and fell absolutely in love. We could definitely see ourselves here. We could see having kids here. We loved that it had a garage. We loved everything about the house. Except for the outside. As you can see it needs a little love. And this was at the very top of our price range. Which meant there would be no money left for improvements for a little while. But we were willing to work on it. This was ahead by leaps and bounds at this point. We were going to the house that we loved before the search last and we knew it had some big shoes to fill.
Then we went here. Look at that yard. And you should see the back. It is immaculate. And it has a shed/man cave. And it doesn't need us to do anything to it but move in. Maybe paint. But even that isn't absolutely necessary. So fingers crossed this is our house.
It was so funny, we had said that we would look at houses, come home and talk about the houses and then call our agent back the next morning. But it wasn't necessary. We knew. This was home. So we went straight to her office to make an offer. And now we wait. The seller has until 5pm tomorrow to get back with us.
This has been an extremely crazy day but hopefully the next few months will be even crazier as we start our lives together. (By the way our agent will be leaving the country the middle part of July...so we have to get our butts in high gear!)
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