Houses!! Update
Jul. 7th, 2016 04:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngNixed the one next to the railroad tracks. Thanks for your input, guys. After sleeping on it and driving around the area again, we realized we wanted that one more for our younger selves.
Also nixed the one that needed a lot of work. It was next to a busy street and even at 2pm it was loud. Really nice house, but needs someone who will have the time to get it there.
We're offering on the just okay, old-lady feeling house today after looking at a few more yesterday. We realized our priorities are: a) being able to resell the house with little work in two years; and b) being able to move in with no work. The kitchen needs some updates, but it's mostly cosmetic easily fixed, i.e. wtf is up with those pink countertops and wow those cabinets are ooooold.
We drove around the neighborhood and researched it a bit more and it has a very low crime rate, is right next to the river trail and a big park, and our house was actually the cheapest one by far. Houses in that area appear to be selling pretty quickly, versus the other areas we looked, where houses were on the market for 100+ days, easily.
We even looked at a few more houses and there was one that had a really cool kitchen - corrugated metal ceiling and swank lighting and a multi-hued tile backsplash - but the neighborhood had multiple empty, foreclosed homes and was just far. Alas.
So we got our bank info and our monies together and in a few hours we're going to meet with the agent and draw up an offer letter. IDK how fast these things go, but hopefully we'll know more soon.
Also nixed the one that needed a lot of work. It was next to a busy street and even at 2pm it was loud. Really nice house, but needs someone who will have the time to get it there.
We're offering on the just okay, old-lady feeling house today after looking at a few more yesterday. We realized our priorities are: a) being able to resell the house with little work in two years; and b) being able to move in with no work. The kitchen needs some updates, but it's mostly cosmetic easily fixed, i.e. wtf is up with those pink countertops and wow those cabinets are ooooold.
We drove around the neighborhood and researched it a bit more and it has a very low crime rate, is right next to the river trail and a big park, and our house was actually the cheapest one by far. Houses in that area appear to be selling pretty quickly, versus the other areas we looked, where houses were on the market for 100+ days, easily.
We even looked at a few more houses and there was one that had a really cool kitchen - corrugated metal ceiling and swank lighting and a multi-hued tile backsplash - but the neighborhood had multiple empty, foreclosed homes and was just far. Alas.
So we got our bank info and our monies together and in a few hours we're going to meet with the agent and draw up an offer letter. IDK how fast these things go, but hopefully we'll know more soon.
