Our House - Hopefully

The first house that Nathan and I looked at was wonderful in size but after a second look we "ran away without a second glance." It turns out that the house needed a lot more work than we first thought and it also had a lot of foundation problems. We were slightly disappointed but not discouraged.

We spent that evening looking up houses online and found one that we absolutely fell in love with. It did not appear in the pictures to need any work and came with a lot of land. It was also rather new - built in just 2004.

Right away Nathan and I made an appointment to go look at the home. We just saw it today and it was just like the pictures. We were in love lol. The owners were actually home when we saw it and they were able to give us more of a personal tour and insite into the home.

The house is a one level three bedroom two bathroom, with a family room, living room with a fire place, dining room, laundry room and spacious kitchen. My favorite part of the house is the master bedroom which has a large (HUGE) walk-in closet and also a huge bathroom with a garden tub, large vanity, and a large glass shower separate from the tub. It also has a large front deck and a smaller deck in back that needs replaced. It comes with two car off street parking and a 2.329 acre yard. There also is a koi pond (which we probably won't use) and lots of storage. The house is just under 2000 sq.ft.

The owners are currently thinking about taking it off the market for a little while because they are not sure when they will be moving, but they know it will be in the next couple of months. Which for Nathan and I is absolutely perfect because our lease for our apt isn't up for another 5 months. If we put down a small deposit of only a couple hundred bucks, the owners will "hold" the house and not put it back on the market until they are moving out. Then the actual contract will be drawn and the house will officially be ours. Now some people think this may be a bad idea, and I can see why some would think that. But we would be drawing up a contract and everything would be legal and there would be no backing out. If we found another place, we could get our earnest money back and the house would go back on the market. Also if they find out they can't move then we would get our earnest money back and go back to looking for a different place. For us this is a great thing because we know we love this house and don't want it to go to someone else. Also waiting a couple months to actually purchase it will give us time to save up more money and move out of our apt.

Also the owners would be throwing in a lot of furniture with the house if it is sold at full asking price of $107,000 which is a couple thousand UNDER our budget. Because they would be moving to another state and they had a lot of expensive heavy furniture they would be willing to leave it with the house if the full asking price was paid. That would include a huge TV with a gigantic entertainment center, a large fishtank, and a large workout home gym system. Also all appliances would stay with the home as well including washer/dryer, microwave, dishwasher, fridge and stove. With all those things included we would be set and wouldn't have to buy anything for the house. So for $107,000 we would be getting a lot more for our money than they would be getting out of it, but they just don't want to pay to have all that shipped over to another state. Which is awesome for us.



Below are pictures of the kitchen, living room and family room.


Wish us luck with getting the home :-D