Inspected

The home inspection went very well, and we really liked the guy that did it. He's in business for himself, and also is an electrician and does a lot of other home repair. He did a great job.

We'll be asking the current owner to install GFI plugs in the kitchen and bathrooms to make our home compliant for the FHA assessment, and there is also a secondary electrical panel in the basement that has a major recall and needs to be replaced.

The only other issue is radon. We're going to have to shell out around $800 for a mitigation system, so I've been reading up about it online. We're going to ask the current owner to share the cost with us, so hopefully that will help.

Other than that, the home inspector said our house was "immaculate" and was really impressed! He even gave us some good tips for stripping the wallpaper. So we're feeling happier than ever about our new home!

I've been continuing to think about what colors to paint, and have even been reading some design blogs, like this one that my cousin Katy recommended.

I took some pictures of the outside and a video tour of the inside, so I'll post those this evening hopefully. I think the video might be too long to post all at once, so I have to figure out how to split it up. But once it's up, I'm open to any and all decorating suggestions! I just want to get rid of the wallpaper!!

Mini break

Tonight I hop on a train to Philly to visit my good friend from Juniata, Nicole. We plan to talk, shop, talk, eat at yummy restaurants, talk, walk around Philly, and talk. Weather on Saturday is supposed to be sunny and in the mid 50's, so I brought my light jacket and my hooded wool tunic. That way I'll be unencumbered enough that I'll be able to comfortably carry lots of bags o' stuff from the fruits of our shopping.

Monday morning Paul and I lock in our mortgage rate (4.87%!! Ridiculous!), then grab a quick lunch before the home inspection at 1:00. I am extremely excited, but I hope to think about it less this weekend and focus on relaxing. I slept well last night for the first time in about two weeks, and it was because I wasn't thinking about our new house. I can't believe that after Monday, I won't see the inside again until the end of May! How will I make it that long? Well, it will just make May 29th that much more amazingly wonderful and exciting.

I will get myself into the relaxation state of mind by spending 2 hours alone on the train knitting and gazing out the window. I'm looking forward to it a LOT. Is it 6:00 PM yet?

ACCEPTED!!

SHE ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!!! She didn't even counter, so Paul and I are paying exactly what she paid for the house a couple of years ago...she even gave us the 1-year home warranty we asked for! The only thing she didn't accept was the closing date of April 30, she wants to wait until May 29 (the last weekday of the month is when you typically close). Which is fine with us! What's another month? We own a house!!

So you want to see pictures? I don't want to advertise the address, but it's in Shiremanstown, and I saved all the pics to my computer so I can post them. I'll post more after the home inspection, during which I think I'll be able to take a bunch of my own.

If you click on an image you can see it a little bigger.



The is also a third bedroom; the master bedroom has a half bath (no shower) and his & hers closets, plus my grandfather is giving us his nice bedroom suite with queen bed (YAY!!!); and the basement is half finished, with the other half going to laundry room and Paul's future man cave. There's even a separate room for Paul's man cave that also has a cedar-lined closet - isn't that cool? So we can keep some of our nice clothing down there and it won't get moths or anything! And the unfinished room where we'll put the washer and dryer will also have tons of space for an ironing board and plenty of storage. I am thinking up BUNCHES of other ideas already! WOW.

OMG WE OWN A HOUSE. FOR REALZ. SRSLY. As of May 29...woo hoo!!

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More waiting

We're supposed to hear about our offer by "Late afternoon" today. It's 5:00 now and no word yet.

I'm still all fluttery and nervous, but I think by going through the first offer and being RIDICULOUSLY full of anxiety that whole time, I've kind of inocculated myself. I guess another factor is that this time they'll make a counter-offer and it won't be the end of the road because we still have room to offer more.

I also feel better because we have a few other comparable houses that we'll go look at if this offer doesn't work out. And since our current house is SO overpriced, I'm just interested to hear what she'll come back with, and if it will be reasonable at all.

More this evening if I hear anything...

Make me an offer

Well, we made the offer this morning...and a few minutes ago our realtor called to say they did not accept it. Since we were reaching on this house, we gave them our best and final offer, so there's no counter-offer.

SO we're meeting with our realtor again tomorrow at 12:30 to write an offer on our other house, a rancher only two blocks away. This one is well within our reach, and our realtor thinks it's overpriced, so this time we'll be making a low but reasonable offer and then wait for a counter-offer. And then we will also counter, probably, and hopefully go back and forth until Paul and I decide to accept. And then we will hopefully close on April 30, and start moving in on May 1!

If this all works out, we'll give our 2 months' notice on our current apartment on April 1 so that we overlap for a month while we rip down wallpaper, maybe rip up some carpet, paint, and move into our new rancher. And then hopefully by August we'll be ready to have a big housewarming open house! You're invited.