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Archive for December, 2006
No news = bad news?I just got off the phone with the realtor. He told me that he is unable to get a hold of the seller. Apparently his daughter is getting married this weekend. We don’t know if the wedding is today or tomorrow, but regardless, this is a busy weekend for him. He says that he will keep trying and assured me that I have a good solid offer so he still has hopes that he will select my offer. He then added that I need to call the mortgage company first thing on Monday to make an appointment to get the mortgage application started. I don’t think he would have said that if he didn’t think I had a good shot at getting my offer accepted but who knows. The other people who made the other offer are the ones who could screw up all of this for me but all I can do it sit and wait by my phone. OfferAs scheduled, yesterday I met with my realtor and we looked at about 6 more houses and looked at the “jewel” that I liked so much a second time. I couldn’t help it, the “jewel” was just too awesome to pass up. So at around 5 pm I went ahead and made an offer on the house. I put $1,000 in earnest money, offered full price for it but asked for my closing costs and offered to close by the end of December. As it turns out, the seller had received another offer on the same day. So now he gets to evaluate both offers. I’m not going to get into a bidding war so if this is not meant to happen, I guess I’ll be disappointed and I’ll have to move on. There’s another house I saw yesterday that is in a more convenient area for me but that I don’t like as much as the other one. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice but I had really set my hopes on the one I made an offer on. My realtor told me that we should know something today, I hope that’s true. I am keeping my phone no more than two feet from me at all times so that I don’t miss the call. Wish me luck. I’m so nervous I could throw up any minute.
House huntingEven 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….
They all look the same after a whileBy now I have driven past more than 30 houses in the past week, probably more, I’ve lost count. By doing so I’ve been able to assess driving times, neighborhoods, the actual appearance of the house, yard size, fences, etc. Some of them were clearly empty which meant that I was able to get out of the car and walk around a bit and look through some windows to see if I liked what I saw inside. Out of all of them I’ve chosen about 9 that I want to see again and go inside. About 2 or 3 of them even have a pool! I’ll start looking at them starting this coming Friday. Who knows, maybe I’ll see something on Friday or Saturday that I love and I want to make an offer. That’d be exciting!
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