Holy. Shit. You guys, selling and buying a house totally sucks balls!! I swear, there really needs to be a tv crew following us around filming this comedy/shit show. So, lets just start at the beginning shall we.
After our open house we had a great offer on our house that we accepted. It was taking awhile to get their deposit in so our realtor finally got ahold of them, only to find out that one of them GOT DEPORTED!! Like, seriously!! How does that even happen? I feel absolutely horrible for their family though. I mean, I know things will work out with our house, but I can’t even imagine what they are going through. So in the mean time, we had a trip to Colorado planned, since we were under contract and we would be able to find a house for us. Well, right before the trip I found a house that we liked so we put in an offer, without seeing it. We had already seen a house with the same floor plan, so we were pretty confident with the house. We offered 10k over, plus no closing cost or anything like that but because our house fell out of escrow, it was a no go.
Fast forward to our actual trip to Colorado. We got another offer on our house (Yay!), but they decided to withdraw the offer before we were able to get under contract again (Boo!) We had put in an offer on another house we went to see, and they countered back basically saying that they need to see a contract for our current house. Well shit. Luckily our agent was able to talk to them and they gave us till the weekend to get under contract before they would officially accept our offer.
We got lucky and ended up getting another offer on our house while we were in Colorado. It wasn’t as good as the previous one, but at least it came in time for us to get under contract at the Colorado house. Now we just need to hope that everything works out with both houses!!
The big problem was having with finding a house in Colorado is that there seems to be two types. You get the really nice newer homes that need very little work done, but are sitting on tiny little lots or you have the older homes that need quite a bit of work done, but are sitting on the amazing lots that have natural yards, rather than manicured yards. I wish I was able to just combine the two. New house on an old lot. The more houses I got see the more I realized that I will never be happy in one of the places with a tiny little lot. As I have said before, I don’t want to settle.
The house we ended up choosing has an amazing back yard and is in a really nice area full of trees and wildlife. The inside needs A LOT of work and there are a few things that we had to compromise on, but in the end, it was the deck and yard that really won us over. I can just picture myself sitting out there with my morning coffee or tea, or having friends over for a BBQ while our kids play on the play structure. Even though we didn’t get everything we wanted, in the house, it will be awesome once we get it all fixed up and I plan on writing about all the “fun” projects!