Today, we drove by 5 houses that are for sale. Here are our thoughts:
House 1: The 4 Acre House. We went back to the one I saw in the dark on Wednesday night. It'd be a great house but we really do strongly dislike the town it is in. The town is super trafficky! It's just claustrophobia. For the house, is it worth it to live in a town you despise? I don't know that it is. As we drove onto the road of the house, a car coming the other direction motioned for us to roll down our window. She asked if we lived there and then she realized we were coming to look at the house too. There were 2 people walking around the house and looking at it. It really looked like a great house and is kind of in it's own world. BUT - can we live in that town and drive through it to get "home"? Would "home" be "home" when we hate the ride there and away? Mike said, "I hate the house the farther I drive away from the house."
House 2: Freeway House. This house, in description and shape, is exactly the craftsman type house I would love. It's 2400+ Square feet and on an acre. Sounds perfect right? Well, it was on the corner of a freeway and a state highway. The house was right up to the road. If it was back into the acre of land, maybe it would have been better. I was hoping we could look past the fact it was on a busy road, but driving by the house, there were gang symbols painted on the front porch and it really was in a horrible location!
House 3: Dead Street House. This house is in the same town as the Freeway house. When we drove up to it, I noticed it was 1 block away from a tractor store. Nothing against tractors, I just don't want to live that close to a store. The biggest thing we noticed was the fact that the house across the street and 3 other houses were for sale or vacant. Why did everyone want to move from that street? Well, we didn't want to live there. It backs up to the freeway that ran by house #2. Not really the type of place I'd like to live.
House 4: Estate House. I added this house to the list because it was on the way home. I hadn't written down the address but I remembered it was close to city hall, a park and a senior living center. We changed the direction into our TomTom GPS (called Homer because Mike downloaded Homer Simpson's voice) as city hall of the town and then started wandering around. We found the house! It was bigger than Mike was expecting and it was by far our favorite of the night. It goes to the possible list. The story with this house is it's an estate sale. The floors are old but I know that it's had some updating like a new roof in the 90s. They do mention that it might not qualify for regular financing due to crawl space issues. I'm not sure what that means. I'm hoping it does qualify for a conventional loan. Knowing that the inside style hasn't been updated, means we have the potential to cosmetically update it. Also, it has 400 square feet of attic space that could be finished into liveable space. That would make this house a 1700 square foot house with a 2 car garage, shop space and 2 carport spaces. It was on a quiet street but close to everything. It's about 8 minutes farther away from family than we live now, otherwise, it's an option.
House 5: The Illusive House. This house is in the town we currently live in, actually, it's about 3 miles north of where we live (therefore closer to family). I searched houses today and this one showed up as being added to the MLS today. It was super cheap and just sounds like it would be perfect. It doesn't make sense that it would be so cheap. There were no pictures of the house online yet. I went to google maps and saw that from the street it has large trees in front of it's property so you still can't see what the house looks like. It was getting dark but we drove over. as soon as we were 1 mile away and turned to go into the neighborhood, Mike says, this is not a good area. We drive by the house and we still can't see it. But Mike goes, "NO, this is like the RB area (there have been two shootings since we looked at a house in the RB area). Your domineering husband is saying no to that house." So, there you have it. My husband, who is the furthest from domineering, said no. I have to listen to him (this time).
House 1: The 4 Acre House. We went back to the one I saw in the dark on Wednesday night. It'd be a great house but we really do strongly dislike the town it is in. The town is super trafficky! It's just claustrophobia. For the house, is it worth it to live in a town you despise? I don't know that it is. As we drove onto the road of the house, a car coming the other direction motioned for us to roll down our window. She asked if we lived there and then she realized we were coming to look at the house too. There were 2 people walking around the house and looking at it. It really looked like a great house and is kind of in it's own world. BUT - can we live in that town and drive through it to get "home"? Would "home" be "home" when we hate the ride there and away? Mike said, "I hate the house the farther I drive away from the house."
House 2: Freeway House. This house, in description and shape, is exactly the craftsman type house I would love. It's 2400+ Square feet and on an acre. Sounds perfect right? Well, it was on the corner of a freeway and a state highway. The house was right up to the road. If it was back into the acre of land, maybe it would have been better. I was hoping we could look past the fact it was on a busy road, but driving by the house, there were gang symbols painted on the front porch and it really was in a horrible location! 
House 3: Dead Street House. This house is in the same town as the Freeway house. When we drove up to it, I noticed it was 1 block away from a tractor store. Nothing against tractors, I just don't want to live that close to a store. The biggest thing we noticed was the fact that the house across the street and 3 other houses were for sale or vacant. Why did everyone want to move from that street? Well, we didn't want to live there. It backs up to the freeway that ran by house #2. Not really the type of place I'd like to live.
House 4: Estate House. I added this house to the list because it was on the way home. I hadn't written down the address but I remembered it was close to city hall, a park and a senior living center. We changed the direction into our TomTom GPS (called Homer because Mike downloaded Homer Simpson's voice) as city hall of the town and then started wandering around. We found the house! It was bigger than Mike was expecting and it was by far our favorite of the night. It goes to the possible list. The story with this house is it's an estate sale. The floors are old but I know that it's had some updating like a new roof in the 90s. They do mention that it might not qualify for regular financing due to crawl space issues. I'm not sure what that means. I'm hoping it does qualify for a conventional loan. Knowing that the inside style hasn't been updated, means we have the potential to cosmetically update it. Also, it has 400 square feet of attic space that could be finished into liveable space. That would make this house a 1700 square foot house with a 2 car garage, shop space and 2 carport spaces. It was on a quiet street but close to everything. It's about 8 minutes farther away from family than we live now, otherwise, it's an option. 
House 5: The Illusive House. This house is in the town we currently live in, actually, it's about 3 miles north of where we live (therefore closer to family). I searched houses today and this one showed up as being added to the MLS today. It was super cheap and just sounds like it would be perfect. It doesn't make sense that it would be so cheap. There were no pictures of the house online yet. I went to google maps and saw that from the street it has large trees in front of it's property so you still can't see what the house looks like. It was getting dark but we drove over. as soon as we were 1 mile away and turned to go into the neighborhood, Mike says, this is not a good area. We drive by the house and we still can't see it. But Mike goes, "NO, this is like the RB area (there have been two shootings since we looked at a house in the RB area). Your domineering husband is saying no to that house." So, there you have it. My husband, who is the furthest from domineering, said no. I have to listen to him (this time).
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