House hunting

Even though I had an appointment on Friday to start looking at houses with the realtor, I couldn’t wait any longer and I asked the realtor if we could meet ahead of time, so we met on Tuesday after work and we looked at the houses of my list of “must visit” that I compiled while driving around to houses I had seen listed.

The first one was nice with a great fenced in yard with a great pool. The problem? Tiny rooms, small living room and something I didn’t expect to see; it looks like the house had carpet for a while, and the carpet had been nailed on the tiles! Yes, nails going through tile! Now, I could live with that and in time re-tile those couple of rooms, but the size of the rooms really put me off.

The other house tour was given by the home owner who happened to be there. A small Asian man who was telling me that the neighbor’s pitbull “will kill you after it grows up.” Great salesman.

The rest of the houses were crap. For example, one of them had used that fake-wood contact paper on the kitchen cabinets to make them look good on pictures, but horrible in person. And that wasn’t just that, they had used those cheap stick-on vinyl tiles… on their warped floors.

I was so discouraged by the end of the evening that I almost wanted to give up. Those were the houses that I had kept on a list for a couple of weeks and I had my hopes that one of those would be my future home. My morale really took a beating.

Today the realtor called me because he wanted to show me a house he had. I went and oh my God, it was beautiful. It was a perfect house. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, skylight in the master bathroom. Beautiful wooden floors, brand new appliances, nice cozy yard (where I could install a pool someday.) The problem? A tad far for my liking. It’s only a 15 minute drive to my job and about 20-25 minutes from Disney World, but I’m still trying to find something closer to where I live now. But I haven’t discounted this house. It’s awesome.

So I’m meeting him on Friday and we’ll look at some more houses.

The search for the perfect house continues….

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