We found a house! Last week we made an offer on a foreclosure. The bank wouldn't budge on the price and said they couldn't close until April 16th! That would mean we couldn't move in until sometime in May because of the renevations we would need to do. So we continued our hunt as we did not feel the other house was worth paying more for with all we would have to do to it. Then we came to house #3. We made an offer on Friday. It's a new house and we are not using a realtor so we have more negotation room. The sales rep took our offer to the builder on Monday. Yesterday we found out they accepted our offer! Hurray!!
The cool thing about this home is it has just about everything we would want. It's almost 100K less than the one across town. It's close to Collin's job, the elementary school is rated the same as the "better" school on the other side of town, and we have family nearby. Also, it's a new house! They also will be able to close in possibly 2 weeks! Another thing I really love is that all of the bedrooms are downstairs! We have a cool bonus room which can be a gameroom or media room upstairs. Otherwise, all bedrooms are down. After living in a 4-story house in Germany, I am ready to be on one level!
The original family that had this house built put a lot of neat things in it. Since they didn't follow through with it, the builder had dropped the price quite a bit. I noticed in their model home that there was a 2K realtor bonus. So our offer included that with additional things we would want, including a stainless steel refrigerator that matched the other appliances, gutters, a few custom plugs, and quiet automatic garage door opener. There are granite counters in the large kitchen and master bath. The house sits on an oversized lot and has a nice sized backyard and covered patio. The house has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, a study, dining room, and upstairs gameroom or media room. The house is around 2700 sq. ft. and includes a sprinkler system and tankless water heater. It exceeds energy efficiency standards and our utility bills should be real reasonable this summer. The community has a new pond being built and a swimming pool and club house. They are hoping the pool and splash pad will be completed this summer. This is a brand new neighborhood so there are a few "risks" to our decision to buy here. However, I think we're going to be okay. The builder is debt free, has a great track record, has been in business over 25 years, and builds beautiful homes. I'm looking forward to joining our neighborhood HOA board and helping to organize neighborhood functions.
We are hoping to close in about 2 weeks. If we go with the builder's preferred lender, they will be done with our loan application/process in 10 days. We have one walk through next week and the final one will be scheduled for the day we close. We are so excited to finally find a house. We have been living out of suitcases for about 2 months.
Here are some pictures of our new house!
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| Our lovely house! |
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| Kitchen |
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| Master Bath 1 |
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| Master Bath 2 |
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| Backyard |
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| Living Room |
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| Master Bedroom |
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