We Got It!!!

They accepted our offer!! I'm so excited! Only thing that sucks is that they pushed off our closing date to mid September. Hopefully if we get our stuff done on our end they will try to get their stuff done quicker! The only thing we have to do before we move in is paint and have the carpets professionally cleaned. There are some other things I want to do but they can all be done once we've move in. I am so excited to start packing!!!

Is it Wednesday yet?!?!

The anticipation is killing me! I can't concentrate on anything. I hope we know news about our offer before Wednesday! I have a 6-8 page paper due on Sunday so I need to get started on it now but it's too hard to concentrate! I think we put in a very good offer that is very close to the asking price. Ken thinks we have a very good chance of getting the house. After we looked at it on Thursday only 3 other people looked at it. I've already started looking at furniture. I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I want the house so bad and we put in such a good offer. I'm really hoping the other offers that come in try to low ball it and they just take our offer! I wish Wednesday would hurry up and get here!!!

Monday's the day!!!

We LOVE the house!!! The street it's on is little to be desired. But all in all it's a great house! So since it's a foreclosure they have some stupid rule that you can't submit an offer until it's been on the market for 5 days. So that means we're submitting our offer on Monday!!! I'm so excited! It was actually listed a little wrong it actually has 3 bedrooms and 3 full baths! They started to finish the basement and it's looking really great! The back yard is big and it's plenty of room for Kitty to run and play! We're going back to look at it on Sunday with our parents just so they can see it before we put the offer in. We're offering very close to asking price and we may even decide to up our offer from what we decided last night to be even closer to their asking price so we have an even better chance of getting it. It all depends on how many people have looked at the house by then. It went on the market on Wednesday and we were only the second people who had looked at it. The only real things that need to be done are a good paint job and to have the carpets professionally cleaned. There are a few other things but they wouldn't need to be done right away. For some reason they stole the light fixture out of the dining room so I would like to replace that to match the rest of the fixtures and I believe the one in the master bath was stolen also. There are a few other things that need minor fixes but nothing major. It's only 2 years old so it really shouldn't need any major fixes. I am so insanely excited!!! I really, really hope we get it! Wish us luck!! :)

Not for us...

So that house was a big piece of crap. Upon closer examination the outside was falling apart and it didn't look like any maintenance had ever been done on the house. The inside was a mess also. It had an in ground pool in the back yard though but it was disgusting! The whole house would have to be gutted and a major overhaul would need to be done on the outside. We would have to invest way too much time and money in it. So we're passing on that house. I do have to say though that the house did have a lot of potential if someone wanted to stick the time and money in it. It was probably an awesome house when it was first built. It very much reminded me of a house you would see on the HGTV show Hidden Potential. I love that show BTW! I did find a house that came onto the market in St. Clair today. It is well in our price range, plenty big for us and it's only 2 years old. We will probably go and look at it on Friday. I really want to look at the house on Michelle again to see how far they got on their bathroom renovations. Ken said yesterday that their realtor keeps asking him to bring us back over there because they really want to sell to us. So we could probably end up getting a pretty good deal. I just have to talk Doug into moving to St. Clair...

At a stand still...

Well the house hunt is at a stand still. Doug doesn't think we can afford a house and I think we can so it has become really frustrating. So after work I'm going to Target to apply for a job. I really don't want to have to get a part time job but if that's what I have to do to prove to him we can afford a house then that is what I will do. What sucks is that it will take up all of what's left of my free time. But I'll be making money so I guess it's an alright trade off. He has finally found a job that he wants to apply for. So we shall see about that. I'm just tired of hearing him complain about his job. He needs a job where he is appreciated and that he actually likes. A foreclosed house came onto the market today and I really want to go see it. It is in Washington. It's 2035 sq ft, split foyer, with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. It has two fireplaces and a 2 car garage. It looks massive and it's well in our price range. The description said it needs some TLC which means it's probably trashed inside. I figure it can't be any worse then the first house we looked at in union. That house was so disgusting! So I called Doug and he agreed to look at it so I called our realtor and he set it up for tonight. He said he thought it was really important to look at it as quickly as possible because of the price, location, and the fact that it is a foreclosure. So I'm really excited to see it. It's a little scary that there are no pictures of the inside but really how bad can it be...famous last words, lol :)

Junk mail

http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/

This is such a great idea and i am definitely going to do it! I didn't even realize that you could tape a prepaid envelope to a box or basically whatever you want and the post office would mail it. So look out credit card companies, I'm going to mail you all my unused junk, lol.

The weekend

Not much to write about. The house hunt is very slow right now although the new house in Union is looking like more of a possibility. Ohh well I guess time will tell. Well this weekend was pretty fun. Thursday we went to Jason's, then Jacob's then Wendy's. I had way too much to drink and didn't end up drinking the rest of the weekend. Friday we went to Doug's family reunion in Gray Summit, then to Lowell and Sue's, then to Scott and Erin's. We went home fairly early...Saturday we went to Alyssa's. Towards the end of the night it got fairly eventful. Mike and Amy and some of their friends got caught by the water patrol so they all ended up coming back to Dan and Cindy's. They were all pretty trashed. I can't imagine why they got caught by the water patrol, lol. Sunday i kind of just laid around the house and went to Walmart. Doug did straw and didn't get home until late. I wish the weekend was here already and it's only MONDAY! Saturday we're going to Brian Maune's grandma and grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary and then hanging out with Jacob later on. But those are the only plans we have as of now.

More on the house hunt...

So we looked at the house in Villa Ridge and it was definitely not what we were looking for not to mention the family that is currently living there let the house go to crap because it is being foreclosed on on Thursday. So the dumb asses put it on the market 4 days before it is set to be foreclosed on. Like they thought that was going to do any good?? So I'm stuck on a house we looked at in St. Clair. It was a few weeks back when we looked at it and I keep thinking about it. It has almost everything we want minus the fact that it is in St. Clair. It has 2 bedrooms (we wanted 3). It has 2 full baths (we wanted at least 1.5). It has a deck, a fenced in yard, and a 1 car garage (2 wanted a 2 car garage). It has a fairly big kitchen and all appliances stay minus the refrigerator, I'm assuming, but I'm hoping we can work it into the deal if we decide to make an offer. It has a full walkout basement and a hook up for a wood stove. It is slightly over our price range but we would offer 5% less which would fall into our price range. It is in a subdivision but it seems like a fairly nice and quite subdivision. It isn't that far off the interstate either. So here are some pictures.....