A New House?

I don't think I've mentioned before that we are hoping to move to a bigger house soon. One that has a garage, basement, and hopefully a little more privacy. Well, after searching online for a couple of weeks, we decided to go take a look at a few twins that are in this nice cul de sac, surrounded by mostly farmland and a lot of open space. Dan's not thrilled about going from a townhouse to a twin, since he's always said that the next house we go to will be a single with a nice yard. Well, there were some older singles that have popped up on our search, but they all seem a bit older, and aren't in the school district we'd like to stay in. We saw three twins last Sunday, each one nicer than the last. The final one we went into had a bit of a different layout, was located on the end of the circle, and just was in a lot better shape than the other two. When we walked in, we were hit with the smell of tomato sauce, which was nice. It has a finished basement with a separate laundry room that's 11x11. There are plenty of closets, a big deck in the back, and they've already done some nice landscaping. The master bedroom is very big, and the other two are nice sizes as well. The big kitchen is open to the dining room, and there's a mudroom next to the powder room, and they have doors to the garage and the deck. The powder room is lovely, too. Basically ready to move into. The only drawback is the lack of central air.


Well, Dan and I were going back and forth about everything for a few days after we saw the house, and he could see that I was really thinking about this place. I was mentally moving all our furniture in from the time we walked out. He admitted it was in better shape than he was expecting, and we had found out from our realtor that it was up on the market last year for way more than they are asking now. We looked online on this website that tells you what houses are worth, and it was listed at about thirty thousand over what it's listed at! We decided to go for it, and we were going to bit a little bit lower than the asking price. Then, after finding out there were other people interested, (so we were told), we went a little bit higher, but decided not to offer the asking price, since we didn't feel comfortable with doing that. I figured, if we are meant to have this house, we'll get it.

We did the paperwork Thursday night, and our realtor told us she was going right over to the client's house and we'd find out that night if we got it. We were surprised, b/c when we bought our house we waited two days to find out if we got it. So, after filling out paperwork for over an hour, with a tired baby on our laps, we went home to wait for the call. There were a couple of questions they had for us, but after a little while, they accepted our offer! Holy cow! We bought another house! And we didn't even put this one up on the market yet!

They are leaving all of the appliances for us, even the microwave and three a/c units. They gave us an estimate that they had gotten for the central air to be installed, so it can be added, and since we have a few units from them, we don't have to have it done right away, or go out and buy some a/c's. I believe I also saw that there's a freezer there, too, which is something Dan and I have always said we wanted. Such big dreams we have!


So, I am so tired from this whole week. I am not looking forward to going into work today, and I can't wait to quit, so I can focus on the things we still need to do to this house before we leave. I'll put some pictures up of the house the next time I get a chance. I just can't believe this is happening so quickly!