Baby bump

So I am in danger of failing in my first duty as a father, I have yet to take any pictures of the baby bump. But that is going to change this week. Our appointment to find out the gender is Friday morning, so I will promise to post an ultrasound picture and a baby bump picture this weekend.

Time to breathe

We officially moved out of our first home on Sunday and in with the in-laws. I can't tell you how nice it was to sleep in an actual bed for the first time in a week. I rented a PODS container and had most of the furniture out of the house last weekend, including the beds, so I was sleeping on a matress pad. I was staying at the house alone, so I didn't need too much in the way of furniture. I kept out one chair, my tv, and a desk I used as the tv stand. I am glad it is all over for now. I may change my mind, depending on how long it takes us to find a new home, but I think I will be paying someone to unload the PODS.

We are taking our time with the home search now and being extremely picky about what houses we even look at. Last Friday we found a great house, one I describe as our old house on steroids. The owners blew out the back wall of the house and added a breakfast room and great room. Of course, as nice as it is, the price is steep and the square footage is way too much. Yet we still really want it. If the market keeps going this way, we may just make a ridiculous offer to see if they would take it. Until then, we will keep looking.

Housing update

Wow, what a crazy 2 weeks it has been since the last post. The appraisal on our current house did not go as well as we had hoped, so we ended up having to re-work the contract. That was no easy task and at one point I called the sale off, at which point the buyers made some concessions and the deal was re-written and finalized. So on Friday we close on the sale of our house. As for our home search, we had a house, but the inspection was a nightmare. The amount of things wrong with the house was staggering, and many of them were major items. At that point we just voided the contract, not even bothering to submit a repair list. Now we are without a new house, so everything is being packed into a POD and we are moving in with the in-laws.

Hurdles

So we have a contract on our current house, scheduled to close on the 26th. And as of Saturday morning, we have a contract on a new house, also scheduled to close on the 26th. Now, all we have to do is clear a few hurdles. The first of which we should know about today. An appraiser came out to our house on Friday and we are supposed to find out the number today. Not only were we able to sell our house rather quickly, about 6 weeks, but we also sold it for a higher price than many of the comps in teh area, thus the concern about the appraisal value. If it doesn't meet the sales price, we could lose the sale. Once we get that number, and hopefully it meets or exceeds, we can then start the inspection and appraisal process on our new home. I am so ready for this to be over.

Poof ...

The offer we put in on the house was rejected and countered. The people actually countered back at $12K over their list price. Read that sentence again because I promise you it is correct. We are extremely disappointed, as we really thought we would be able to work something out on that house. Last night was very difficult to sleep after hearing the news from our agent. We are trying to figure out what to do next now. We had a list of favorites but aren't quite sure which one is right for us.

Like lightning

Alright, so immediately after my last posting I received a call from our realtor telling us that we had received an offer on our house. Now this was Friday morning, which is important. After work, he came over and we met with him to discuss the offer, and at 8pm we decided to accept the offer. It is important to note that the offer had a deadline of ...8pm. So if everything goes according to plan, we will close on the sale of our first home Sept. 26th, almost exactly 4 years to the date that we moved in to that house. More importantly, that is not too far away and we had yet to even look at houses for us.

Now this is where you will laugh at us, or just drop your jaw. Our agent picked us up at 1 on Saturday and we proceeded to look at almost 40 homes. Yes, as in physically walk in 40 homes in one day. Some were pretty obvious they wouldn't make the cut and we turned around and walked right back out. But that is all this was, a weeding out process to narrow the search down. And let me tell you, a lot of the houses we looked at, the owners don't want to really sell, they were just nasty. Also, very awkward is when the owners decide to stay in the house while you are looking.

Don't think that is the last of it though. On Sunday, our agent picked us up at 11 and we repeated the process for a different section of Germantown, this time only going through about 30 homes. By the end of Sunday we had a list of 10 homes, and went back through all of them on Monday to get it down to a list of 3 to 5. The funny thing is, the one house on our list that we couldn't get inside to see over the weekend b/c the owners were sick was at the top of our list. Ater being in almost 70 homes, our choice was a house we couldn't see.

If you made it this far in my rambling post you now get the good news. Last night we saw the inside of our number one house in person for the first time. And last night we made an offer on what we hope is our next home. So wish us luck!!! B/c after 70 homes, we are tired and want this over.