A Place of Our Own

Although we never thought the day would come, we have FINALLY found a house. The offer has been accepted, the terms have been negotiated, and the inspections are done! We will officially close on May 21 and are extremely excited. It will be nice to finally have a place of our own!

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Our Home Search...

When we graduated, we thought we'd move down to AZ, buy a house and start "real life" in our new home. Apparently, life doesn't always go according to plan...

Started our home search in April '08.

Looked at over 60 homes in 3 months.

Put our first offer on a home.

Never heard back from the bank about our offer.

Looked at another 40 homes.

Put in 2 more offers on homes.

Had both offers rejected due to multiple offers on the homes.

Looked at another 15 homes.

Found nothing we liked.

Put our homes search on hold for a couple months.

Started our home search again.

Looked at another 20 homes.

Found a great deal on a fixer-upper.

Put an offer on the fixer-upper.

Got in a bidding war over the fixer-upper and gave up.

Found out the home sold for only $5k more than our highest bid.

Looked at another 20 homes.

Found another home we liked.

Home was a short sale so we didn't bother with it.

Found out the home went under contract the next day.

Found another home in the same neighborhood.

Put an offer on it.

Liked the home but didn't feel right about the area.

Withdrew our offer 2 days before offer would've been accepted.

Looked at another 15 homes.

Found our perfect home.

Found out it went under contract the same day we found it.

Looked at every home in that neighborhood.

Found two homes we liked.

Picked one and put in an offer.

Had our offer accepted.

Jumped for joy.

Had a home inspection done.

Found water damage.

Asked the bank to pay to repair the water damage.

Waiting to hear back from the bank.

And so here we are, 1 year, over 150 homes, and 6 offers later and pretty much nowhere. Talk about a patient realtor... (thanks Ann).

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Aubry Elise

On Thursday afternoon, my friend Hanna had her first baby, little Aubry Elise. Look at that head of hair!

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Little Stud

This last week my sister Adrienne was visiting with her son Brooklen. As always, we had a total blast shopping, eating, and playing. What can I say, my nephew's a stud!

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