Looking for a house in this market sucks. Plain and simple. Everything is a short sale or foreclosure. The regular sales are gone before they’re even posted online. The short sales take MONTHS to go through, if you can even get a call back in the first place. It’s downright depressing.
We put offers on 347 different houses (or so). Some of them we STILL have not heard back on. Our first choice, however, finally approved us and we’re currently in escrow!
Holy cow, y’all! We bought a house!
The house is slightly larger than the one we have now, and has a nice sized backyard that we can (someday) put a pool in. There are 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and the master bedroom has a walk-in closet that is bigger than the bedroom I had as a kid (I’m not kidding. I actually measured.) It needs new paint and carpet, but is in otherwise good shape. We’re both really looking forward to making it exactly what we want it to be.
I’m excited and terrified all at the same time. The house was a foreclosure, so we’re dealing with a bank instead of a person. They asked for a speedy escrow, so we’ll close on Monday,April 18th (barring any obstacles, and assuming we don’t close early). That’s great, except we have to be out of our current house on Tuesday the 19th. That doesn’t exactly make for a smooth move. Right now we have a POD in front of our house, that we’re filling with as much stuff as we can. Next week we’ll switch that out for another one, and put the rest of our stuff into it. The Pod people will store it for us until we get the keys to the house, and then they’ll deliver both to our new driveway for us to unpack at our leisure. I love that part!
My favorite part (aside from just owning a home for the first time in my life) is that we’ll be very close to both of Donald’s sisters. Both of them live less than 2 miles away, so we’ll get to spend a lot more time watching the kids in all of their sports and activities. (Plus, by the time we have kids, the older ones will be able to babysit for us). I’m very fortunate in that I don’t have to pretend to like his sisters or their husbands. I genuinely like all of them, and am glad we’re close!
Less than 3 weeks to go before we move in! Wow, I have a lot to do!
Congratulations! We just moved into a bigger home a few weeks ago and it has been crazy.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!