Our New House?

Well, we finally found a house that we both liked and have put an offer on it. It is a foreclosure, so the bank currently owns it, but they have accepted our offer. We had an inspection done the end of last week, and there were a couple of major things that we have asked to be fixed/corrected. Depending on what the bank says about fixing them will depend on whether we stay with our offer or withdraw it.

A couple of you have asked for some pictures, so here is a sampling. In order, the pictures are the front of the house, looking at the kitchen from the breakfast area (the lady in the picture is our realtor, Julie), the pool in the backyard and the back patio. It is a fairly large house having four bedrooms and three and a half baths. It has a living room, dining room, family room, game room, kitchen and utility/mud room. It should be more than enough space for us. Of course, that means more space to clean also. Hopefully the bank will have an answer for us tomorrow.

Our House

For those of you who haven't been following on Facebook, or we haven't talked to in a few weeks, we finally got the house ready to sell. We have been busting out at the seams and need to get something a little bigger as we figure Cami and Sara will be with us for another three to five years. At least until Sara is able to graduate from college.

The For Sale sign went up on the evening of Wednesday, September 2. That Friday night we received a call from our realtor that we had an offer on the house. Earlier this week, we did sign the contract to accept the offer. If everything goes okay, we should be closing before the end of October. Below are some pictures of how are house looks right now.

So . . . that means that we have to really start looking for another house. We had found one that we really liked (even though it was really big), but it was a foreclosure and we were not able to make an offer since we don't yet have the down payment (we'll have it when our sale is final). Just this last Thursday, we spent half a day house hunting and we may have found one that we can agree on. Here are a couple of pictures of that house.