What now???

Jesus, I got the stuff moved down into the garage from the top floor today with help from Beam and Mattison and now just have to finish removing a walpaper border and doing some cleaning. Sold the couch :) Then it all hit. The loan shark needed a written explanation for a deposit in February from the insurance for the accident Clarence had, The information on the home owners insurance which he thought was too high so had me call some other agents for quotes, The owner of this house wants to show it and it is a real mess upstairs still while I am getting things done. The real estate agent called and I have to meet with the sellers tomorrow to explain the repairs I need them to make. Deep Breath!

The seller has agreed to fix the stuff we asked them too from the inspection. WE are IN ESCROW!!!!

do do do do inspector gadget

it apears my future county is high tech.

they have the drafts outlines of homes online from the tax assessment

fun

	Legend	Options
A MAIN 1197 Sq. Ft. B FROVR FRAME OVERHANG 13 Sq. Ft. C WDDCK WOOD DECKS 64 Sq. Ft. D FROVR FRAME OVERHANG 104 Sq. Ft. E FROVR FRAME OVERHANG 42 Sq. Ft. F WDDCK WOOD DECKS,WDDCK WOOD DECKS 34 Sq. Ft. G WDDCK WOOD DECKS 402 Sq. Ft. H FROVR FRAME OVERHANG 8 Sq. Ft. I FROVR FRAME OVERHANG 26 Sq. Ft. J UNFIN BSMT BASEMENT UNFINISHED,1S FR ONE STORY FRAME,1S FR ONE STORY FRAME 195 Sq. Ft. K FIN BSMT FIN BSMT LIVING AREA 754 Sq. Ft.

Lucky me

It seems my husband bounced back from this stomach crap much faster than me. Although it is tough living with ADD sometimes it can also be a benefit. He has single handedly got us almost completely packed up. I wish I had half his energy and drive. This week I will finish cleaning upstairs and in teh one room we don't use downstairs and the bitchy real estate lady can begin showing it. I also have court for my name change on Monday, He has court for the lady that hit him Monday and Tuesday is the bug inspection.

The latest on the house

We have definitely chosen the treehouse. If you click on the word treehouse above you can see it or you can see it on my facebook page in my photo album. The inspector came today and found a few minor things and a couple of bigger ticket items that need to be addressed. Oddly the owner showed up and stayed the entire time. She would not shut up. She did without even hesitation give me the combination to the door and tell me I can store stuff there in the garage prior to closing if I want and she took down the for sale sign. She kept asking me how I felt about the inspection not that she knew since she did not hire him he was talking directly to us only and waited till she left the room. She repeatedly said if anything was wrong she would fix it but we will see tomorrow when she gets the list of things they need to fix in order for us to keep going with the deal. I am pretty certain they will fix them and we are going to insist that they be fixed to the inspectors specifications. I am going to have him come out again when they are done to be sure. All in all it went well and we are pretty excited. Now just waiting on termite guy to go ahead with the deal and we will sweat out escrow.

the updates

We have been moving fast to find the home.

We fell in love with the treehouse and now have it under contract.

we do the inspection tomorrow morning. and should be good to go quickly after that. all financing is in place so all we have to go

1. inspection: that'll be tomorrow
2. termite incpection: that next wed
3. aprialsal: on the lenders schedule
4. closing: we are looking at 4/29 but want to bring it in as much as we can
5. selling the furniture that won't work (too big for the new house)
1. reclining couch and love seat
2. glass dining room table and 8 chairs
3. kitchen table and stools 
4. glass coffee table and end tables from the family room
5. lighting. everything in the new house works. don't need the lights we have
6. TV stand. gonna mount the 47" on the wall
6. the move from hell. not looking forward to that we live on a big hill and will be moving to another strange hill so small moving truck with several trips

now to sleep

the friday viewing reports

so we went and saw some of the houses today. 

the report we saw 2 we loved one hated one. will meet again on sunday to see some more and review the comps on the treehouse

ok now to think big thought about how to make the treehouse mine.

i can see a hottub on or next to the front porch with a nice wrap around privacy structure that matches the front. 

would have to sell the living room furniture and dinning room table to fit in the house but still worth it.

here's hoping its posible

goodbye 60+ person house parties. hello 10-20 person cocktail parties

ok the reviewed  list

pulled from the market. not sure if its under contract or what - collett

we saw this gem today. it is smaller then we planned but we have started to see our stuff in it and would like to put an offer in once we have the comps -  treehouse

PSYC! looks like michael vick lived here. you can small and see the damage from dogs being bred here.  all of the floors were destroyed. the wood trim everywhere was devoured. even sections of walls. the carpenter bee's had dealt with the outside of the house. the roof was leaking all over and it was in general disarray (does that make me professor chaos) i don't think i would be willing to take this work on if the house was 40K. i spent my childhood working on a money pit home. never again. Holy dog piss batman

 

under contract of off the market groovy

under contract or off the market yea

under contract or under contract meh

Age old question. I need your help friends

Assuming this house is as nice as it looks in pictures there is a dilemma. Is it worth another $300 a month in payments to have the house of our dreams with pool and great entertainment space?

Con is the payment is $300 more, power bill will be higher due to size and pool, home owners insurance will be higher because there is a pool.

Pros are we can have some awesome parties, there is room for my brother in law to live with us, We don't have to do any work or buy appliances which we would have to with most places because the upgrades are already there. I would have a pool so I would smile a lot more.

What do you guys think? Really I want opinions and ideas. If you are curious it is the house on collette pictured in the earlier post.

by request

y0 dawg i heard you liked house. so i put a house in your blog post about houses

several people have aske dto rate my house option on the houses.

here we go

Troys favorite. above our budget but we could be tempted if its as nice as it looks - collett

my personal fav the treehouse

another nifty one that looks nice

 

i think its small but pretty groovy

not sure yea

and the final meh

and the beat goes on

The pressure increases

Sunday we decided it was too hot in the house and turned on the "new ac" they installed last fall after an entire summer of it being broken. It froze up in less than two hours and never cooled the house. New plan was to move our bedroom and tv to the family room which is in the basement and stays cool. This would also allow us to pack the upstairs. Now the landlord wants to start showing the house. Yeah, I want strangers tromping through my house while it is in total disarray.  In better news I talked some with the Realtor and he is working diligently to find us a place and plans on showing us some on Saturday. I am assuming at this point our stuff is gonna be living in a pod and we are going to be living at a hotel come April 30th.

6 down 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 to go

ok geek moment had to use pi on pi day
got 6 boxes packed and feel good. the nest that was the entertainment center is now boxed up.
the books are done.
hell i even did a clothes box for stuff i never wear.

the a/c has started its summer shenanigans so we'll be moving the master suite to the basement familyroom for the rest of our internment here.

think i may go pack up the recroom for awhile before my stories come on

a very brady hunting

Its true i'm a picky yet indecisive person. i know it is an oxymoron. but its me
as we looked at houses my mind kept returning to 70's design. i always said i loved modern but the more i think i want the 70's take. the great rooms the big funky windows and shapes. the sexy wood siding in unconventional directions. i'm sorry but its hawt kinda like a grown up treehouse.

now the suck. dark wood trip everywhere just makes a house feel like a cell. galley kitchens are for valium popping wives who's biggest wish is to get sloshed at the next cocktail party and not burn the roast.

Well my modern husband wants a house to entertain in. since he's the one that people want to talk to the kitchen should be open and inviting (bah)

so my hunt in order of priority
a sexy 70's house with 2500-4000 sq feet on the west side of Atlanta
a private backyard spaced wooded with enough flat ground for a deck/pool/hottub
an open floor plan or good kitchen
3-5 bedrooms for all of our needs
something lower on the budget since we will need to address some of the 70's scary
a garage


and the beat goes on.

Intro

About a year ago now my husband and I moved into a 4 bedroom three bath house in a suburb of Atlanta, GA. We rented this house for $1200.00 a month and agreed with the property manager that in a year we would visit the idea of purchasing the house. The first summer in the home we had issues with the ac not cooling. They tried every silly remedy they could from crimping the lines to the finished basement to make more air flow up to the main floor to replacing the condenser with a new in the box old unit. (means that it is so old it is not even energy star rated but they insist it is new because it had never been used before). Nothing helped much. The best we got was from 90 degrees to 80s. The house has many other issues as well that would require some major upgrades right off the bat.

About two months ago I contacted the agent and we began to negotiate pricing and terms. When we moved in we were told they wanted 105 for it but of course we did not do it all in writing then because we were so excited. When it came down to it they wanted 170 for it. That is about 70 grand over market and comps for this area. Needless to say the end result was "Ms agent. You can stick that where the sun don't shine and we are moving out asap."

Within a few days we were pre qualified to buy a house we had found at an incredible deal. It was nearly 4000 square feet and had every dream we could have with the exception of wanting to replace a few minor things. It was our dream home. We made an offer of 170k and they countered with 175 and we took it contingent on an inspection at our cost.

Yesterday we met at 7:30 am with the inspector and before he even had the chance to enter the home he noted that the stucco was not right. There were not flashings where there should be and that there was water damage on all the windows. What does this mean? It means that all the windows would have to be replaced. That would be easy to do since they were going to have to pull all the stucco off and fix it anyhow because it is leaking inside the walls because of not having flashing. "How much will that cost?" I asked foolishly knowing that no matter how much it was I could be assured it was more than we can afford right now. After he told me that it would be at least 30k and as much as 100k to do what was needed to the outside the blood ran from my head and I was certain I would vomit.

Needless to say that deal was cancelled and we are now searching. I had no idea how hard it was going to be to look for a house. We are an impatient people, us DeMars so of course we could not wait till Monday when our quite competent realtor will start his magic machine up and give us a list of potential places and start making appointments to show us. We started driving... Looking at nearly every neighborhood and subdivision in our preferred area. We have scoured the internet looking for the right house. Nothing crazy cool has popped up yet.

Last night there was some issue over our ideas of what we want. Turns out we were looking for different houses. I sit her now looking at how we can compromise and both get most of what we want. Maybe even all. Help! I thought this blog would be a good thing for the following reasons...

It allows me to vent
It keeps people who don't give a crap about my house hunt from having to read about it
It allows people who have ideas or suggestions to make them
It may bring me together with the person who knows of a house for sale that meets our needs
It may help someone else going through this personal tragedy called house hunting.
It will serve as a good weapon when I have to convince my loving husband that selling and buying another house is not a good idea.