House hunting.
I'm sure there are a billion forums I can read to get myself ready but I'm terribly unprepared to buy a house and that happens to be the big thing I'm trying to do in my life right now.
Why move with we have a perfectly good rental with a year option to renew in Fenuray? Well rent goes up again and would be able the same amount as a mortgage. Also I feel like I'm throwing my money away. Also, it's just too small. We need 4 bedrooms, not 2. Why 4? 1 bedroom, 1 guest room, his office and my office/studio. We could compromise on a 3 bed with an attached garage if I can just take over the garage. But there aren't many options in the area I want to stay in.
Today is the first day we're going to physically looking at houses. It's a lousy, drizzly afternoon but I have been waiting ALL week just for this. I don't care about my massage later, don't even care it's the weekend. Just that I'm going to be viewing houses.
A note on viewing houses though, don't wait until the weekend to do it. 2 of the houses I was VERY motivated about are already bid war and pending on. I'm so deflated about that. Now we're down to seeing 3 houses and none of them are the gems I really wanted to see. Further more I feel like we should have just lined up a butt load of houses so we can get our feet wet. Do we need to put in an offer today? Probably not unless we see a show stopper (which I'm not realizing a lot of the houses don't have dishwashers which I thought was just a given but kind of a must).
I'm anxious as we get ready to go but I will update when we get back!
The viewing.
So we saw the three houses. The first one was new construction and it had pretty much everything on my wish list and was very updated. The more I think about it, the more I want it but we need to see more houses.
The second house we saw was very small but absolutely the most adorable and visually appealing. Exposed beam, exposed brick. Fire place that goes in living room AND other side goes in bed room. Second house had 4 bedrooms but that were small and kind of weird. But is was VERY charming. Just not enough space. Plus the backyard was so deep it would take a long time to mow and a lot of maintenance with the fauna. Also no dishwasher.
The third house we saw was a dudder. Nothing particularly special, only 3 beds no attacked garage and although it was more spacious than the second house, it was still meh. The basement smelled weird and it was move in ready but just a big no for me. Too much to compromise on. Also no dishwasher.
So today was a good day to get our feet wet. We added central air as a must have to our list and I still pretty much want all the same things. If you wanna know my picky list see below. But I was happy to see a range of houses in only 3 and am looking forward to scheduling more viewings as soon as we can.
The list.
Must haves:
4 beds OR 3 beds and attached garage; possibly spacious basement would suffice
central air
appliances (prefer updated/newish)
specific areas
parking for friends to come over
garage/shed for outside stuff like lawn mower
newer furnace/water heater
dining room
Wants:
walk in closet
master bath (with shower/tub separate and double vanity
big rooms
spacious kitchen
gas stove
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