My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
It’s On
Published March 29, 2005
We are officially buying a house. Unless something horribly wrong is found during the inspection, we’re all ready to go. The offer was accepted today, and it’s been faxed to our loan officer.
After I was told that it was accepted, I told Ana and she was just thrilled, but then she said “Daddy, I’m going to miss this place.” That’s when it sunk in; the fact that this place that I live in now, the place I’ve called home for almost three years, will no longer be my home anymore.
Brian from Scheppke Real Estate called today. He’s taking care of our purchase while John is on vacation. He said that the reason the house is so cheap is because they’re settling an estate. That’s great news for us because the people who have to accept the offer have to come in from out of town to look at it. Hopefully they’ll just want to get it over with and we can get moving.
Celebration
Published March 26, 2005
We spent about two hours going over paperwork and signing forms. We made our offer and John had already talked to the seller’s agent about the offer. John seems very confident that they will accept the offer. If they do accept, we will move in around April 20th, which will give us a week to paint and move.
We grabbed some pizza and watched The Holy Grail with Erich and Josh.
John (our broker) called. We’re going to buy a house! We discussed how much to offer and I decided to take 2% off of the asking price. I think that should be more than fair. John seems to think that this is a great house as well, and he thought it was clear and away the best house we looked at.
We have a meeting at 4:30 today to sign an offer.
The loan officer just called and said that we should make our offer! I’m really excited now.
Waiting
Published March 25, 2005
I just talked to the loan officer at the bank. He’s going to do the paperwork for us to get preapproved. We had already applied and were approved for a loan two years ago, so he just pulled that application and had me give him some updated information.
This Sucks!
Published March 25, 2005
I can’t believe how long this homebuyer course is. It’s taking forever and we have to do these stupid quizzes after each section. Soon I will be done, and I will be one step closer.
Buy It
Published March 25, 2005
My dad’s first comment to me and Carissa was that we should buy that house. They went through the house today with the camera and my parents were both really excited! I’m inclined to agree. My dad sees a lot of things we could do to improve it but he seems to think that the house is in great condition and it’s really a steal. We’re still wondering why the house’s price is so low, but we really can’t pass this up.
CT Scan
Published March 23, 2005
I had a CT scan today so they could look at my sinues. The headaches are still here and they really bother me. I’m a little worried that they are going to find something serious though. I’m probably just worrying over nothing.
Most of the houses we saw were just awful. We were starting to feel like we weren’t going to find anything good in our price range. The house I was exited about just isn’t big enough. It’s very nice and really well designed, but it’s pretty small.
We did find one place, though. It has five bedrooms and a huge basement. It doesn’t have air conditioning, so I’m very apprehensive about that.