Another update!
On Friday night we put an offer on the house with the deep garage! And when we got off the plane in Lafayette on Saturday we had a text from our realtor saying that the owners accepted the offer! We were shocked! The owners were planning on having an open house on Sunday, so we were certain that they would send us a counter offer and wait until the open house was over to see if they got any other offers. But, obviously, we were wrong :)
Also, on Thursday afternoon we received a call from our realtor in Lafayette saying that the people who were going to buy our house wanted out. We were very confused. We had just responded to their requests from the inspector's report and we were willing to fix all of the major things that were wrong with the house. They never negotiated or anything. They just wanted out. But we weren't willing to give up. So they forfeited their earnest money. We think they may have been first-time home buyers and just got cold feet. So we are back at the beginning with selling our house. We are planning on having an open house this coming Sunday so hopefully we will get some good feedback from that.
So we have two houses now!
I'll try to keep you up to date :)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
House Hunting!
Ugh...I'm already failing at this blogging thing! I wanted to update at least once a week and, obviously, I haven't been doing that :(
So time to catch up!!
Chuck and I are in Connecticut! Not permanently yet...just trying to find a house...
We flew in to Hartford Sunday evening and arrived at our hotel around 11 that night. We met with our realtor Monday morning and started looking at houses. That day we looked at three of them. And the third house was our favorite of the day. The house is perched up on a hill overlooking the rest of the neighborhood. It's in a very nice part of town and the layout of the house was very open with vaulted ceilings. And we would have beach rights :) BUT what we didn't like was that the driveway was incredibly steep and would be very scary in the winter. The current owner also has a lot of pets...and you could definitely tell. The owner is planning on replacing all the carpet with hardwood floors so that will help the problem.
Tuesday, we looked at four more homes. We didn't really find anything that day. There was one house that was very nice on the inside but the property was located right next to a very busy road.
Today, we looked at five houses. The second house we looked at made it to the top of our list. The house was very nice inside. It had an open layout with vaulted ceilings. And the thing that moved it to the top of the list...the two car garage is as deep as the house, which means it can actually fit four cars! Ding ding ding!
We saw another house today, also, that we really liked. It was a modern colonial house. It had the thick, white molding around the trim of the doors. The master bathroom was awesome and it had a HUGE walk-in closet...BUT the property that it was on was not good. We think that at some point the original house that was on the property must have been torn down and then two houses were built in its place. So the front yard of this house was the back yard of the one in front of it :( But the inside was AWESOME!! Too bad :(
We have more houses lined up to look at tomorrow so we'll see what we find. We are hoping to decide tomorrow which one we are going to put an offer on.
So I'll try to keep you updated :) Things just happen so fast...
So time to catch up!!
Chuck and I are in Connecticut! Not permanently yet...just trying to find a house...
We flew in to Hartford Sunday evening and arrived at our hotel around 11 that night. We met with our realtor Monday morning and started looking at houses. That day we looked at three of them. And the third house was our favorite of the day. The house is perched up on a hill overlooking the rest of the neighborhood. It's in a very nice part of town and the layout of the house was very open with vaulted ceilings. And we would have beach rights :) BUT what we didn't like was that the driveway was incredibly steep and would be very scary in the winter. The current owner also has a lot of pets...and you could definitely tell. The owner is planning on replacing all the carpet with hardwood floors so that will help the problem.
Tuesday, we looked at four more homes. We didn't really find anything that day. There was one house that was very nice on the inside but the property was located right next to a very busy road.
Today, we looked at five houses. The second house we looked at made it to the top of our list. The house was very nice inside. It had an open layout with vaulted ceilings. And the thing that moved it to the top of the list...the two car garage is as deep as the house, which means it can actually fit four cars! Ding ding ding!
We saw another house today, also, that we really liked. It was a modern colonial house. It had the thick, white molding around the trim of the doors. The master bathroom was awesome and it had a HUGE walk-in closet...BUT the property that it was on was not good. We think that at some point the original house that was on the property must have been torn down and then two houses were built in its place. So the front yard of this house was the back yard of the one in front of it :( But the inside was AWESOME!! Too bad :(
We have more houses lined up to look at tomorrow so we'll see what we find. We are hoping to decide tomorrow which one we are going to put an offer on.
So I'll try to keep you updated :) Things just happen so fast...
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