House Hunting… He’s ready, am I?
Three years ago, when our twins were only a few months old, Paul and I started house hunting. There was one house in Seaford, Long Island, that caught both of our eyes. This house was perfect for our family of five. It was empty, and it would require updating three bathrooms and the kitchen, but we still loved the house. At the time, the prices of houses were still astronomical, and shortly thereafter, I found out I was pregnant again. The house hunting stopped, as I was not ready to move away from my family, needing the help of my mother and family with four little kids, three of them babies.
We planned on resuming our hunt next year (the beginning of 2013). In the meantime, I still get daily multiple listing reports, and we found out that the Seaford house was still for sale, at a DRAMATIC decrease in price. Going into the New Year last weekend, we were certain that this was kismet. After all, this house has been coming up for three years. We had seen the decrease a year ago, and now another decrease. This house was now SUPER affordable and still available. We made an appointment with the listing agent for the 2nd of January and neither of us could sleep the night before. We could TASTE being Seaford homeowners!
The house was everything we remembered, and it still was what we were looking for. But renovating three bathrooms and a kitchen would add tens of thousands of dollars to the price of the home. When the agent first said to us that she’d send us listings that were similar and in the same price range, I told her that if this house didn’t work out for us, we’d hold off on the hunt til our original plan of next year. But when we got the listings later that afternoon and saw that the similar houses at the similar price (minus all the work!), we were completely intrigued.
Almost a week later, we have five appointments set up tomorrow to look at houses. Paul began the process of pre-approving us for a mortgage, and I should be thrilled. After the health and happiness of our family, all I want is our own home. So what am I afraid of?
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