We've moved!
I guess I'm not really cut out for doing day to day posts. Maybe because I think my life is too mundane for the whole world to pay attention to. but aren't blogs supposed to be about the mundane? Oh well, whatever...
Six months ago our second child was born and we were discussing if we should move or stay put for a couple more years. After all, small children can easily share a room together and having a small house payment each month is worth something, n'est pas?
Things were moving along fine while dealing with the problems most young parents can relate to but we managed. One day my wife was talking to the neighbor who told her that they we're trying to buy a new house. She told my wife what they were asking and our reaction was: "They asking how much?!?". We both had the exact same floorplan but the neighbors had put in laminate flooring a couple of years ago. Other than that the houses were the same. In fact, our house had a 'better' backyard as we had no neighbors behind us.
So, we started thinking. With the interest rates being at the low point they were at last summer maybe we should do the same thing and sell the place. So we contacted a relative who's in the real estate business and had a chat with him. According to him we were in a high demand area and could easily get $100K+ more for it than we owed on it.
So, we started looking. First a little closer to home, then a little farther out and finally way out in the countryside. As our house was worth a lot more than we thought it did, so did the houses we were trying to buy. Luckily we both have good credit so getting a loan wasn't really a problem, but the monthly payment was more than we were willing to fork out.
To our surprise we received an offer on our house within three days of it being on the market. Our realtor even got the buyer to add a couple thousand to the asking price because the market was so hot.
After about a week of looking at existing houses we went out into the country to look at some new construction. We found a place we really liked and put down money on a contract. Unfortunately, another family did the same thing that weekend and we lucked out because that family had already sold their house and we were still waiting for the inspection.
Anyways, our inspection process took quite some time before the buyer was satisfied and we found another place a couple of blocks away from the first place we put an offer out on. This time there was no competition and we just had to wait for all the paperwork on both places to work its way through the mills.
Finally the day came when we rented the U-Haul and a couple of strong movers. With the help of friends and relatives we moved into our new place. We've been in it for about six weeks now and although most of the boxes we're unpacked in a week or two we still need to finish a couple of areas. The den/office/library is still one big pile of boxes. The garage is still full of stuff that needs to be organized. And the family/bonus/play room still needs more shelves/cabinets for the games. Painting is a work in progress and we bought some more furniture to fill up the place. The back yard is still one muddy mess that we'll be working on for the next year or so before it's all said and done.
For Thanksgiving we had two families over and it went just fine. The house and kitchen is large enough to entertain.
Although my commute is now about three to four times longer it only takes me twice as long as the country back roads do not have the traffic nor the traffic lights that I used to have. I'm loving it!(TM)
Doei!
Six months ago our second child was born and we were discussing if we should move or stay put for a couple more years. After all, small children can easily share a room together and having a small house payment each month is worth something, n'est pas?
Things were moving along fine while dealing with the problems most young parents can relate to but we managed. One day my wife was talking to the neighbor who told her that they we're trying to buy a new house. She told my wife what they were asking and our reaction was: "They asking how much?!?". We both had the exact same floorplan but the neighbors had put in laminate flooring a couple of years ago. Other than that the houses were the same. In fact, our house had a 'better' backyard as we had no neighbors behind us.
So, we started thinking. With the interest rates being at the low point they were at last summer maybe we should do the same thing and sell the place. So we contacted a relative who's in the real estate business and had a chat with him. According to him we were in a high demand area and could easily get $100K+ more for it than we owed on it.
So, we started looking. First a little closer to home, then a little farther out and finally way out in the countryside. As our house was worth a lot more than we thought it did, so did the houses we were trying to buy. Luckily we both have good credit so getting a loan wasn't really a problem, but the monthly payment was more than we were willing to fork out.
To our surprise we received an offer on our house within three days of it being on the market. Our realtor even got the buyer to add a couple thousand to the asking price because the market was so hot.
After about a week of looking at existing houses we went out into the country to look at some new construction. We found a place we really liked and put down money on a contract. Unfortunately, another family did the same thing that weekend and we lucked out because that family had already sold their house and we were still waiting for the inspection.
Anyways, our inspection process took quite some time before the buyer was satisfied and we found another place a couple of blocks away from the first place we put an offer out on. This time there was no competition and we just had to wait for all the paperwork on both places to work its way through the mills.
Finally the day came when we rented the U-Haul and a couple of strong movers. With the help of friends and relatives we moved into our new place. We've been in it for about six weeks now and although most of the boxes we're unpacked in a week or two we still need to finish a couple of areas. The den/office/library is still one big pile of boxes. The garage is still full of stuff that needs to be organized. And the family/bonus/play room still needs more shelves/cabinets for the games. Painting is a work in progress and we bought some more furniture to fill up the place. The back yard is still one muddy mess that we'll be working on for the next year or so before it's all said and done.
For Thanksgiving we had two families over and it went just fine. The house and kitchen is large enough to entertain.
Although my commute is now about three to four times longer it only takes me twice as long as the country back roads do not have the traffic nor the traffic lights that I used to have. I'm loving it!(TM)
Doei!
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