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House Hunting Saga Update
Mar. 28th, 2010 12:01 pmWhen last we met, we had found a house that we thought we really liked.
We found out that the reason it's in the state it is in is because the owner was very sick, went to jail for six month, got out of jail, and then died. It's been on the market since November of '08, and I guess nobody cared enough to take care of the place and get it sold. Now it's about to go into foreclosure, and the house is not in wonderful condition.
It turned out that in order to get that house inspected, we'd have to shell out about fifteen hundred of our own dollars. The place hadn't been winterized, and when Rich went to take a second look at it he discovered that the roof was leaking.
Not only that, but the sellers were apparently trying to get us into a bidding war with another potential buyer.
Uh, no.
We'd be more than willing to pay about $90k less than the list price for the house, but we're not interested in paying that much for a home that need SO MUCH work. Work, by the way, that was described as "mostly cosmetic" in the listing.
So that one's out.
We saw two more yesterday, and they're both very interesting to us. We put an offer on the one we liked better, and we'll see how that goes. It definitely needs some cosmetic work, (Holy orange shag carpet, Batman!) but it's all the sort of stuff we could take care of while we were living there.
Fingers crossed, everybody. This could be almost over! (Please, Universe? Pretty please?)
We found out that the reason it's in the state it is in is because the owner was very sick, went to jail for six month, got out of jail, and then died. It's been on the market since November of '08, and I guess nobody cared enough to take care of the place and get it sold. Now it's about to go into foreclosure, and the house is not in wonderful condition.
It turned out that in order to get that house inspected, we'd have to shell out about fifteen hundred of our own dollars. The place hadn't been winterized, and when Rich went to take a second look at it he discovered that the roof was leaking.
Not only that, but the sellers were apparently trying to get us into a bidding war with another potential buyer.
Uh, no.
We'd be more than willing to pay about $90k less than the list price for the house, but we're not interested in paying that much for a home that need SO MUCH work. Work, by the way, that was described as "mostly cosmetic" in the listing.
So that one's out.
We saw two more yesterday, and they're both very interesting to us. We put an offer on the one we liked better, and we'll see how that goes. It definitely needs some cosmetic work, (Holy orange shag carpet, Batman!) but it's all the sort of stuff we could take care of while we were living there.
Fingers crossed, everybody. This could be almost over! (Please, Universe? Pretty please?)
