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.