It's on

On Sunday, we started officially looking at houses with a realtor. We saw 6 and liked only one. We took my parents to see it and in the end decided we need to keep looking. There doesn't seem to be much in our inital price range that's not disgusting. So then we started bumping up our price range in our searching. The quality of the homes seems to increase exponentially for every 10K you go up in listing price. I'm not sure this is a good idea, as I just have a hard time believing we could get approved for much more than we have. But it is fun to go look at houses I could actually imagine us living in.

Today I finally got canceled for a whole shift. It had been me leaving at 7pm almost once a week for 2 or 3 months now, i.e., totally lame. Since I didn't have to work, we were able to go around and look at some more places with our realtor. Earlier today there was a crazy rainstorm and on our way to the first house, some dude directly in front of us on 275 spun around about 3 or 4 times across 2 lanes of traffic and miraculously hit nothing but a sign post. Anyway, we looked at 8 places today. Rating them from 1 to 10, we saw a 9, 3, 7, 2, 5, 4, 8, and 7. I hate looking at houses with the occupants at home. It makes it a rather awkward situation.

Desired house #1

We loved the first one and would love to get it. Unfortunately it's listed for more than I think we'll be approved for and I don't know if they would accept our offer. Our realtor is supposed to check to see if our offer is in the ballpark they're looking for. If not, we may make an offer on another one that's good, but not as great. It's listed for the same price but it's not a short sale. On the downside with that one, it's only been on the market for a few days and so they're not going to be desperate to sell it.

1st Runner Up


Kitchen of Runner Up #2


Sigh. This is rather stress-inducing!