Our House!

We bought a house! We bought a house! We bought a house! Oh my goodness, it's shocking still!...and we didn't buy just any house, we bought an awesome house :)! Now that we have a place for people to stay over, we hope to have a lot of company! Start making plans ! Of course, give us a month or two to get some furniture! We went for the inspection yesterday, and there were no major issues and hardly any small issues. It's in about as good condition as a house can be in :) Now I am no longer disappointed that we did not get that other house back in October. This one is sooo much better! It has everything we wanted and then some. It was built in 2006 by some local guy who was doing it for investment purposes. That's just about the time that the market started to slide, so he's been unable to sell it. We got a major bargain! The house is gorgeous! He's an artist and put in a lot of extra details in the meantime. It has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a living room, a sitting room area, a dining room, a nice big kitchen, a deck, a nice yard, a two car garage....! You should see the master bathroom! It has one of the biggest tubs I've seen in it. I didn't know this until yesterday when the inspector guy turned it on, but it bubbles like a hot tub! We also found out yesterday that the lighting and heating systems can be hooked up to our computer so we can have the lights/heat turn on at specified times, even when we're not there. Big guns can probably explain that a little more. We can't wait to move!
We saw it last weekend with our realtor and decided instantly to put in an offer. Our realtor warned us that another couple had sent word that they were going to put in an offer, so she tried to dissuade us a bit and warned us several times not to get our hopes up. She really didn't think we would be able to get it, given our budget. Thankfully, that couple didn't have their ducks in a row and came back saying that they would need another week or two before they could make an offer. In the meantime, we've been going back and forth in negotiations with the seller, and by Wednesday evening we had a deal. Talk about fast! We knew we had to try for the house! In addition to getting the price down to something we could afford, the seller agreed to pay our closing costs and agreed to give us some of the furniture he had been using for staging as well as the window treatments and all the appliances! Also, the interest rates have dropped significantly since we began our search. It almost seems to good to be true! Needless to say, it's been a sleepless week for the two of us. In the beginning we couldn't sleep because of nerves, then because of excitement, and now we each keep daydreaming of how we'll decorate it! :)