Sunday, April 29, 2012

House Hunting

Technically I still live in Montana, but I took this month to come to Virginia, not only to see Prince Charming (aka Charlie) but to find a house and hopefully a job.
Once we got back from Vegas our house hunting began.  While we were in Vegas I had set up an appointment to meet with a realtor on Tuesday.  I let her know what we were looking for, our price range, and some of the houses that we had already picked to look at.  Before we went on vacation Charlie had talked to another realtor about another house we were interested in.  So Tuesday morning we were in house hunting mode.  We looked at the first house with the one realtor, didn't like the house, and then met with Linda our actual realtor.  She had 7 houses set up for us to look at.  The first couple were not even questionable...it was a no right away.  As the day progressed we got more into what we were looking for and then the last 2 were great homes.  We really liked the TC house, that's what we called it because of the road name, it was nice and big, plenty of space for the kids.  The next house, Wagner, we loved!  Very modern and came with 5 acres, no neighbors, could really see my kids grow up there. 
We went home really loving the Wagner house.  It was a little spendy but a beautiful house with all new updates...very modern.  The next day we requested to see the Wagner house again and I went to 2 or 3 other houses with Linda before that.  We met Charlie and his friend at the Wagner house so he could inspect it before making an offer.  There wasn't anything wrong with the house and it was still beautiful but we both felt this vibe...like something wasn't right.  Here we were...ready to make an offer and the next thing we knew we were looking at each other and thinking...lets hold off. 
So we went home.  And that night we decided that house wasn't for us.  It was awesome but in its awesomeness came a lot of extra expenses for what the house was offering.  It had an awesome kitchen and great land but really too small of a house.  It was a great house but too compact.  So we decided it wasn't our house.  We had looked at all the houses that peaked our interest online so now it was time to just sit back and wait for the realtor to come to us with different listings. 
Charlie got an email that night....it was from the realtor that had showed us our very first house.  He was confirming a question we had had about that house we looked at.  Along with his email he posted a few more houses that we might be interested in.  There was one on there that looked really nice....we decided to go look at it.  This was the one!!  We had found our house!  We looked through the entire thing...and while looking we kept looking at each other with big eyes...both thinking the same thing...THIS HOUSE IF AWESOME!
We put an offer in and it was accepted!  We just bought a house!  Now the paperwork begins, but nothing is more exciting than buying a house with the love of your life! 

1 comment:

  1. This blog better come with photos in the future! Can't wait to see "the house".

    Miss you! Jocelyn

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