We bought a new house today! Kind of.
The house we've been waiting and waiting to see finally opened up to buyers on Monday. The owners are building a new house outside Laramie and that was behind schedule, so the showings of this house kept getting cancelled. Finally, we got to see it on Monday. It's just about perfect for us! It's in the neighborhood we have wanted to live in since we moved to Saratoga. It has a beautifully landscaped yard. It has a dog kennel already built with acess to a kennel inside the garage. The back yard is fenced. It has a big wooden deck on the front and a brick patio out back. It has 4 bedrooms plus a playroom. It has a fully finished basement. For us at this moment, it's just what we're needing. So we put an offer in on it- FULL PRICE (it hurt to do that!), they pay closing costs, they pull the carpet flat downstairs where it is a bit bubbly, and fix the two heaters that aren't working (the owners were going to do the two previous things anyway...) and then wait 60-90 days for us to sell our house. We thought it was a pretty good offer.
They counter-offered yesterday. Full price, they will NOT pay closing costs, and they will give us 15 days to get our house under contract. If after those 15 days ours doesn't have a buyer, and someone else comes along and offers full price and can move in right away, we have 72 hours to come up with the money for our house AND their house. Otherwise they can void our contract. We fretted all night about that. 15 days is NOT a lot of time! Our house in Lingle sold in 10, but surely we can't be that lucky twice!
Today we went into the office to list our house, and the other houses' agent said they would go to 30 days instead of 15 for us to sell our house. That made us feel a lot better and we signed the deal.
Our house already has an appointment to be shown on Tuesday. And the agent who has the house we are buying has two other parties that want to see the house, too. And the broker has a list of people to call, too. HOPEFULLY, it won't take long to sell. It's the ONLY one for sale in this price range right now. We're listing it for $139,700. The next cheapest is $112,000 and the next expensive is $165,000. So hopefully someone only wants to spent up to $140,000 and buys our house. :)
There is some work that needs to be done in the new house, but nothing major. The three upstairs bedrooms need new carpet, and the whole house needs painted inside. (This lady likes pink!) And eventually, we'd like to update the floor of the upstairs guest bath and some things in the other bathroom upstairs. But like I said, nothing major. Here's what it looks like!:
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Joel and I were trying to tell were the house is at. It is over by Greg's mom and dads house? Look like there is a lot of room for storage. That will be nice to have.
You are good guessers! It is in the same neighborhood, just at the top instead of down in it. It's DIRECTLY across the highway from the grocery store.
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