minorthird

so, the weekend is over, but the great american house hunt is officially under way!

although Erika and I have been doing the open house thing for the last four months, we’re now working with a buyer broker. We can now get into all of those houses that seemed to only exist online and in the pages of the real estate section. So far, it’s been a good, if not stressful, experience…
Maiden Voyage“;?>

We looked at 3 houses on Saturday. We were taken by the first one: great condition, good design and decor, nice sized rooms, a smaller yard than we wanted, but it would be ours, and a wraparound porch. It tainted our view of our houses. We wanted to put an offer on it. We were scared that someone was going to snatch it our from under us while we slept.

and then we woke up.

Fun what a good night’s sleep will do. We both woke up thinking clearly, clearly thinking that we didn’t want to put an offer on the house. The house was very livable, but all we did when we talked about it was talk about the things we wanted to do to the house. We were adding bathrooms and closets and redoing the kitchen. I think it’s too early in our hunt to be doing that.

And then we drove around the neighbor again, and as much as it was quiet, and seemed like a more family neighborhood, there were houses that seemed out of place, and there were a lot of two and three family houses. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not what weither of use were envisioning. At least, not this early in the hunt.

We went to 3 open houses yesterday, just ’cause. One place looked nice from the outside, but the inside screamed crack den. What’s up with saying a house has 4 bedrooms, but none of them have closets?! Just because someone sleeps there doesn’t mean that it’s a bedroom. And if you’re going to pull down the wallpaper, pull it all down. I’ve also determined that I’m pretty tall. In at least 4 or 5 of the 7 houses from this weekend, I had to duck to either get into rooms, or duck to stand in the room, or really duck to get down the stairs.

So…Saturday will be a new day…it’s almost worth house hunting to just be able to get inside people’s houses, and question how they live there, let alone expect you to buy it…

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