i love my dining room table. i love the color, the fact that it’s bar height, the look of the chairs. it’s sturdy and has some scratches, a true look of a loved table. i got it three years ago at kmart for $250, pretty reasonable for a good set of table and chairs. it’s pretty and every time i look at it, i congratulate myself for an excellent purchase.
and tonight for the first time ever, nate and i sat down and ate supper at it.
pretty sad, eh?
i am so sick of packing. ugh. today i took 4 huge bags of sheets/blankets/clothes to goodwill, along with some books, computer games (circa windows 95), a lamp, and two cd holders. i’m giving a tv stand to jane and a microwave cart to liz. as you can see, i’m trying to downsize. perhaps doing so will lessen the amount of stuff i have to move, but it sure doesn’t seem like it. so friday we close, clean, and paint the bedroom, then saturday we’re moving a bunch of crapola, then sunday more cleaning/painting. i’m thinking of taking monday off, but i’d have to take floating holiday or sick time. i only have 3 hrs. of vacation. ugh. ok, that is all.
yesterday we got the signed purchase agreement back from the seller, which is a huge relief to me for some reason. i’m not so worried about the financing now. in less than a month, nate and i should be new owners of a house that is entirely too big for us. but it was an awesome deal and it has a lot of potential, especially on the walls (haha).
as a soon-to-be new homeowner, there’s a lot of things i need and want to do, but the main things at first are:
paint (!!!!)
buy a mirror for the downstairs bathroom
fix the leaky piping to the downstairs bathroom
fix the downstairs bathroom’s sink hookups (or lack thereof)
fix the upstairs bathroom’s TP holder
putty/plaster all the holes in the walls the previous owners left (why on earth would you use screws to hang everything??)
clean everything
fix the deadbolt
buy curtains/blinds
buy a new entertainment system
empty the sump
buy a red couch
buy a lawn mower
buy a snow shovel
buy a ladder
construct my firepit with the random rocks in the yard and the sandpile
get some patio furniture for my patio
get rid of the dead trees 🙁
within a year, i want to:
knock down a wall in the family room/den (well, this is nate’s thing)
build a deck
have a garden
landscape
plant many trees!!!
plant a lilac bush
plant peonies (maybe i will do that this fall – they are bulb plants, right?)
get a bird feeder
well, that’s a start.
we had the inspection done today. the major things are that it needs a sump pump sometime in the near future and the downstairs bathroon sink isn’t hooked up to water. other than that, pretty minor things like settling cracks, some siding needs to be replaced due to weed whipper holes, move a couple trees. it’s good to go!
here’s some more pics!
ceiling that needs to be finished
main-floor bath
master closet
stove and DISHWASHER!!
a wide shot from the dining room
the hardware! i love the handles!!
ok, so now i’m worried about our financing going through. we almost make too much for rural development, which is the loan we’re going with. it’ll be really really really close. so close that nate is going to refuse his raise he got today until we close on the house.
so much stress! aauughhh1!1!one
yay i have a house! we have some more paperwork to do and the inspection and appraisal, and we close on or before august 15. there are some minor repairs to do and i want to paint before we move in. i’m not sure what to do about furniture! we need some; there is too much space! this weekend if i am not doing anything else, i am going to menard’s and getting some paint swatches to figure out what i should paint. i also need more curtains/drapes. ok, now i am just babbling about stuff i need to do, but i’m excited! yay!!
i’m sorry HOUSEBLOG has overtaken my LJ. but HOUSEBLOG has overtaken my life right now, so it’s running over into my LJ.
i am so so so so so anxious about this. a milliion thoughts are running through my head: did someone else make an offer? was our offer too low? will my mortgage guy be pissed that we had to go somewhere else? what if the lowest they’ll go is $130,000? what if what if what if? ugh!! i can’t stop it!! i just want this to be done!
let me recount what has been one of the longest days of my life.
nate decided to take today off so we could go look at some houses, and at 10 a.m., we were ready to go at the realtor’s office. we took off and looked at four houses, two of which i had looked at yesterday. there was one in sartell that was gorgeous with a gorgeous view of the river, but the electrical was old, the floors sloped upstairs, and it just wouldn’t fly with the kind of financing we were planning on.
SO. disappointed, we gathered ourselves and went out for a second look at the bi-level in st. joe. the price on that house had come down $10,000, and now a price we could afford was in sight. gosh darn it, it was too good of a buy to pass up. so we decided to write up an offer. as delores says, you can write up offers however many times you want, so we did.
1.5 hours later, after signing our lives away, we were ready to submit an offer on this house, going rural development (which means no down payment and no mortgage insurance), for $120,000. delores calls up the realtor selling the place, and we need a stupid letter of approval from wells fargo mortgage, or they won’t even LOOK at it. are you serious?? meanwhile, we had been trying to get a hold of our mortgage dude to no avail. FIGURES.
delores called the lady who they wanted us to go to at wells fargo, and she was there until four. it was 2:30. so, we rushed home, got paystubs and bank account info, rushed to wells fargo (well rushed isn’t quite the term, i’d say meandered while i shook my angry fist with road rage at the rush-hour traffic), and got in a little after three.
45 minutes later, we had a letter of approval in our hands, and one faxed over to the realtor selling the house. HOLY COW i was SO TENSE from everything, i could feel my head starting to split open. not to mention the fact that i had been starving since 1:00, and i was about ready to pass out.
but hallelujah, we got it done. the purchase agreement is in the hands of the selling realtor, and i’m sure they’re going to wait over the weekend to see if they get any other offers, so we probably won’t hear back until the middle of next week. ****CROSSES FINGERS**** our offer is low, but we have the advantage that the closing date would be at the end of july (ONE MONTH!!! OMG!!!) and as far as i could tell, this is the first offer they’ve gotten.
after all that, nate and i went to chipotle, and it was probably the best-tasting meal i’d had in a long time. holy cow, i chowed down. then, i had to go to work 3 hours late, and here i sit.
funny, i came to work and about half an hour later, i could feel my whole body just start to relax. ahhhhhh……
ugh. so the one house we were both uber interested in and we were going to put on offer on wednesday night after my dad came to look at it, sold on tuesday. that blows!!! so the search continues.
2 houses so far that we’ve looked at we are kinda “eh” about and might consider putting offers on. one in st. joe and one in st. augusta. tomorrow morn i’ m going out with delores again. i figure i can weed out the bad stuff, and if something really interests me, nate can look at it later in the day. stupid work shifts being so different.
so…..i’m kind of disenchanted with house hunting right now. i feel icky that the house we liked got taken away. i guess it wasn’t the right house. onward!
