It has taken fourteen days of late nights driving around neighborhoods, walking through houses, and hours and hours at the computer to finally find a house worth making an offer on. Ironically, we saw the house up for sale months ago. It was a little pricey for us so we moved on. We saw the price go down last week so thought we would take a look at it and the Realtor wouldn't let us see it because it was going to auction that day.
Yesterday we saw the same house re-post at $20,000 less that the last price, it was foreclosed on. Earl tried to see it, but we found out the lady who had previously owned it was still occupying the house and wouldn't allow anyone to see it.
Today, the new owner allowed us to see the house. The owner was there, so Earl peeped around quickly, then later in the day I took my father to see it. We spent a little more time walking through.
The woman living in the house has so much stuff in it, it was hard to look beyond the six sewing machines (which by the way I could envy), the full size cutting table, the shelves and shelves of fabric, and canned food. But, in looking around we realized that it was a nice home with lots of room and potential. It just needs new carpet and paint. (and a new kitchen in about five years)
We decided to make an offer--the price of the house, minus the cost of paint and carpet. Now we have to wait to see if the owner accepts our offer. To be continued.....
2 comments:
where is it? I can't wait to see it!
I'm so excited that you found the house and that it is in such a great location. I'm sure everything will work out with the lady in it. I love that you are blogging, it makes me feel like I can keep up better with you, even when I get too busy to pick up the phone.
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