4th and final

Well, I have been at a loss about how I wanted to write this. I think I wrote in my last post that we received our 4th offer. Well...it is the 4th and final. We are sold! Well at least it looks that way. We close on the 6th. So it seems that all is going forward with the sale of our house.

We fixed the A/C. Of course it was way more than I thought it would be but needless to say it is done. We still have to fix a window before the 6th but I think that is it as far as repairs are concerned.

I told you that I would update you on how our house hunting was going. Unfortunately it is bad news. We looked and looked and crunched numbers and crunched them again and between figuring out what we can afford and what kinds of houses are out there in that price range, we were not pleased with the pickins. So we are not buying a house right now! We thought that we might try and see if the right one was out there for us and try to move in before school started but it seems that was not in God's plan for us. We did find a couple that we really liked. Several of them we just a little too far from our parents and since being close to family was the whole reason for this move we ruled those out. We did make an offer on two others but I wasn't completely satisfied. so we continued to look. Our continued search soon ruled out one of the ones that we made an offer on. I think that we both we uncomfortable with the fact that the home was at the top of the price range for the neighborhood. Buying a home at the top price point in the neighborhood does not bode well for resale options. So we withdrew that offer. We had actually made an offer on two homes at the same time. The other offer was a really good one and the house was great but we came in second in line. I guess that one really wasn't meant to be. In our continued search we found a 3rd home that we were interested in but there was already an offer on that one as well.

That left us with no where to live. We started frantically searching for something to rent, either house or apartment. I was so disheartened. I didn't want to spend more money on rent than we would on a morgage and that left us renting some rat hole of an apartment. I was very uncomfortable with this. I was also realizing that with just a little bit more of a down payment we could afford a better house more like what we want and not settle for something just because it is all that we can afford. Seriously the difference in only like $10,000. I started thinking..."Is there a way to save more money?" I started thinking about other posibilities. It occurred to me that my mom has a converted garage and maybe we could arrange something with that.

I talked to M. about it and we decided that we could live in my parents converted garage if my parents agreed. I spoke with my mom about it and she and my dad agreed. Perhaps reluctantly but agreed nevertheless. I hope that it will all work out. For me, although I know that it will be stressful it will also mean that we can save quite a bit of money very quickly. In the midst of all this M. got a job offer for a better job that will pay a little bit more so that will be helpful toward our goal of saving more money. I am happy for him because he has been trying for this job for three years more or less. I know that he will do great at it and I am proud of him.

But back to my point. For the time being we will be living with my parents. I hope and pray that this goes well. Mainly I pray that the communication remains open and patience abounds. My parents and sister are having to work frantically to clear the room out as it was full of junk. We have to get a fast move on packing our whole house. It will be a small miracle to get everything done in about a week. We will keep looking for a house and hopefully be able to jump on it as soon as we possibly can. I am tired of coming in second on the houses that we are interested in. Please pray for us!