Meredith and I seem to never be home anymore. If we aren’t working, then we are driving around Columbia or in meetings in our realtor’s office. But, hopefully, all of this is going to pay off soon.
We put in an offer on a house last night.
It’s a short sale, which means we would be getting more house than we could buy in terms of its appraised value. It has a great floor plan and lots of space. Here are some pics:
Features we like: jetted tub, 3 nice sized bedrooms and a dining room (we’d likely make the dining room the office), a MBR closet that opens into the laundry room, which then opens into the other hallway (the one with the other bedrooms), large garage, nice privacy-fenced back yard (for Reed to scamper about), spacious kitchen (and no green counter-tops! 
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Features we don’t like: Steep driveway that opens up to a quasi-busy street (why the house has not sold in a year), previous tenants were smokers (shampoo carpets and paint, paint, paint).
The thing that really sucks is that Bank of America has so many short sales and foreclosures to deal with, they are bogged down. While there is a law in effect that says you have to respond to offers within 10 days, BOA tells people 45. In order to qualify for the 8K tax credit, we’ have to be under contract on April 30 and closed by June 1st. If they move too slow, we lose out on a lot of money. So, we are actively looking at other properties in the mean time.
Isn’t life fun?
Heck, yes it is! We are buying a house! And whatever stress comes with it, it is part of the game of life.
Andy
March 16, 2010 at 10:19 pm
That is awesome. Steph and I applied for an apartment today. We hope to be getting that. Congrats and I hope you get the house.
hundiejo
March 17, 2010 at 1:53 am
Thanks, Andy – I hope you all get into the place you want as well!