Hard to believe it's the second half of May already. The kids enjoy living up here at Grandma's and Opa's (that's German for Grandpa) house. They run around outdoors collecting sticks and rocks. Kenna enjoys helping Grandma garden. They planted strawberry plants a few days ago. Deegan isn't into gardening but more so playing with his cars in the dirt. He also likes to help stack firewood. The fresh mountain air is good for them and they sleep solid. They still zonk out for daytime naps for a couple of hours and sleep all night. They go to bed at 8pm and wake up around 630-7am. I got lucky once and they slept until 8am.
As for house hunting, that's a not so fun story. As you know we did view 28 houses when we were there in April. None of them really met our spoiled American specifications. Either the lot was too small, layout was weird etc. We've limited ourselves because we're looking for a 3 car garage and a pool. So that cuts inventory down quite a bit....well, within our budget anyway. We did offer on one house. It was so an amazing home, loved it. But we decided we settled on the location and the backyard wasn't very big. The kids being so young we really want them to have some space to run around. Anyhow, we backed out of that offer a few days later.
Our third choice from those that we viewed lowered their price by $31k, so we decided to offer on it. It unfortunately didn't get upgraded inside, so it's not "all that" with the kitchen and flooring. The backyard also needs help. But it's a great house, nice feel and lots of potential, we both really like it. The parking layout is odd but it's still a 3 car garage. It's a short sale, big bummer. We offered on it and the seller just flat out said, "No".
Erik then was given a week off of training so he had to use that week up (which was last week) to drive to Vegas to continue house hunting. There just aren't enough resale homes out there that meet our specifications. Also all the other homes we'd love to live in already have offers on them. So the good houses are moving, at the banks snail pace of course. Anyhow back in April I had found a funky different looking house but it had an offer on it. I never showed it to Erik because it was only a 2 car garage. As you know 2 car garages these days barely fit two cars, where are you supposed to put your wood working tools etc? Anyhow, the day Erik drove to Vegas that funky house became available. The original family that was wanting to purchase it had haggled with the bank on it for five months and then just walked away. So Erik went to look at it and decided it was a good fit for our family. So he offered on the funky house too.
Oh before seeing the funky house he had our realtor re-offer on that previous house. So two days ago both houses accepted our offers. Now it's just a wait and see which bank is going to do their job first. So hard knowing which house we'll actually be living in. Quite the real estate game eh?
I call it the funky house because it doesn't look like it belongs in Las Vegas. It reminds me of a coastal Florida type house. Erik thinks it's a Cape Cod looking home. Either way it's funky because it's painted what I'd say is coral colored, Erik calls it salmon. The pool is amazing, salt water, great shallow baja step, slide, waterfall etc. We weren't looking for fancy but that house just happened to have invested a lot into theirs. The family who is moving out unfortunately is upset and not happy about not being able to afford their dream home anymore. It makes me sad for them but I know if we end up there I'll love it just as much as them and will always take care of it. Oh and their kitchen is loaded with upgraded appliances, good stuff.
So now we just have to sit and wait for the banks. Which house is it going to be? The yellow Italian style looking one or the coral coastal home with the sweet pool?
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