Home Sweet Home

Finally! After what felt like forever we are currently living in our home. Here is the story:

It all started when I decided (mostly out of curiosity) to start looking at homes online, after looking for a couple days Shane started to wonder what I was up to. I confided in him that I was checking out the local real estate options, assuring him that I wasn't going to make him buy a house. It started to become something that we would do together, we would sit and look at all the listings and even went out to a few houses to do drive byes. Most of the houses we looked at were eliminated within the first few looks. (Neighborhoods matter!)

After a month of so of this, Shane asked if we wanted to go talk to an agent to get a better feel for a few of the houses that we did like on the outside. I had never gone house hunting so I had no idea where to start or who to go to. We decided to just stop by an office of a prominent agent in town. After asking if we could talk to someone, a good friend and member of our ward walked in, we started chatting with him and found out that he actually was a licensed Realtor in Cedar! Yay! Someone we knew and trusted. We went and met up with him and told him what we were looking for and he gave us some options.

Our requirements:

• Garage (Mostly Shane's, but so glad for it now)
• Good neighborhood
• At least a 3 bed 2 bath
• I wanted some kind of a yard if possible
• Weirdly, I wanted fruit trees
• Fireplace/Wood stove
• Move in ready, we looked mostly at structure, but didn't want huge projects to start out with, plus tons of $$$ goes into big projects.
• Within our budget  

Shane pretty much dragged me to this house, the pictures online made me think that I was going to hate this house. But, after some persuasion we decided to go take a look. It ended up being love at first sight. I couldn't believe it was the same house! It had everything I wanted and more. We put an offer on the house right away, little did we know it would be more than 8 months before we would be moving in.

What this house has:

• 5 Bedrooms
• 3 Bathrooms
• 2 Wood burning stoves
• Vinyl and brick siding
• Good size lot, enough backyard 
• Apple and Cherry Trees
• Solar powered water heater
• 2 car garage
• RV pad (storage for toys)
• Shed in the back (Shane calls it the mother-in-laws quarters)
• Plenty of room to grow
• In our budget :)

There was enough drama in getting this house that I believed we would never get it. It was a short-sale and even though we knew that it could take some time, I was not prepared for all the little things that had to be done and took forever to get done! Not only that, but when we finally got approval to buy the house we all the sudden had problems with the owners and terms of the contact that they did not uphold. Gr.... (Breathe, we have the house now). 

Long story short, we are in and have started making the house ours! Slowly I see the changes and they make me excited for the rest. I have to tell myself to take it one day at a time. 

I will post before and after pictures as we change the house.

Love, Nellie