Alright, so…update time!
First, I have to thank you all SO much for your sweet words
on our house announcement. It’s a dream come true. I’ve shared so much of our
lives through the last few years of blogging, and to have you share in the
excitement with us as we embark on this new adventure makes it just so much
more exciting.
Can someone please explain to me how 2 people accumulate SO
MUCH stuff?! The only thing helping is knowing that it will be the last time we
move for a very, very, very long time, and that we’re moving to our absolute
dream house.
Speaking of the house, last time I checked in I was telling
you all about how it came to be and how excited we were, but we still had
appraisal and inspection to get through on both properties. We’ve had
inspection on both, and it could have gone better, but it could have been worse
too.
Our house inspection went great, as we expected, it’s only 3
years old. In fact, the buyers haven’t even sent anything over asking for us to
fix, which is fine by me! We’re trying to make this house as perfect as we can
for them, which is already a task in itself, if we don’t have to add anything to
the list I’m a happy camper.
Things got hairy when we had our new house inspection. It
was 29 pages long. *insert wide eyed emoji here* I mean, we expected
that it would have some issues, it was built the same year I was born. But I
don’t think we expected it to be quite as extensive. There were a lot of little
things that we feel very comfortable fixing ourselves…wiggly sinks, loose
outlets, a faulty garage door. But the kicker was our main deck off the main
living space of the house was, as our inspector put it, “an absolute nightmare.”
Now, Jake and I are pretty handy, but fixing a 3 story deck that our friends
and sweet baby will be playing on is just not within our repertoire.
We sent the inspection report over to the sellers and they haven’t
been all that helpful so far. They offered to fix a few windows, and threw out
a very small number for the remaining stuff-it just wasn’t going to work.
We had a contractor estimate the cost of fixing the deck,
and it’s right around 2,000 dollars, so Jake and I asked for that as well as the windows being fixed, and we’re
just going to print out our inspection report and start going line by line to bring
our house up to code.
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m so excited for the projects. I get
incredibly overwhelmed when it comes to maintenance type stuff. I can look at
the ugliest room and think of ways to make it beautiful again, but you start
talking electrical to me and my eyes glaze over. That’s where Jake is great,
though. He isn’t worried about it and so I’m not either!
We should hear back from the sellers today if they will pay
for the deck fix, and then we’ll finally be cooking with fire! Well, hypothetically. I don’t want fire
anywhere near my new house. ;)
The last hurdle will be getting through appraisal on
Wednesday. We listed our house pretty high, and were soo blessed to get an asking price offer (we need every penny to be
able to afford the downpayment on the new house) so we’re really keeping our fingers
crossed that our house appraises what we were offered.
The win of the weekend happened when we were taking our 4th
load of crap up to my parents house for storage until moving day, and we drove
by a HUGE solid wood dining table with a gleaming “FREE!” sign in front of it.
We couldn’t load it into the truck quick enough. We’re going from a 4 person dining room to an
8-10 person dining room so we had planned to build a table, but if we can use
this one and just bring it back to life with a little TLC, I’m all in! There is
no better price than free J
So that’s where we’re at right now. Closing on our house is
in 16 days. (holy crap.) We will be homeless for a week as the sellers are
going to occupy the house 1 additional week and “leaseback” for the week they
are there, so we’ll be shacking it up in mom and dads basement, just like old
times ;)
Can’t wait to share more!
Until Next Time,
IT'S HAPPENING!! So soon too!!!!! We need to catch up - I can't wait to hear more details!!
ReplyDeleteI am so happy to hear that things are all coming together for you to move into your dream home. Buying and selling can be so stressful, but your dream home is definitely worth it! And SCORE on that table, I can't wait to see it!
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