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    Buying (or not buying) a house is EXHAUSTING!

    By bella | July 15, 2006

    Yea… so much for keeping up with my blog!  We decided to follow the two and a half week vacation with a ROLLER COASTER ride.  A ride that started with finding out what we can afford to buy in a house (good news: more than we thought), and a ride that ended with offers on two homes rejected, and a new game plan.  The ride lasted 6 days, and oh. my. word.  I’m tired!

    Like I said, the good news is that we qualify for more than we expected.  (We can actually get more than WE think we can afford).  Unfortunately, although everyone keeps saying it’s a buyer’s market, we found TWO sellers who didn’t get the memo.  The first seller wasn’t willing to budge ONE inch.  He wanted his listing price, and didn’t want to pay any of the closing costs.  After that door slammed shut, we started thinking about property #2, and realized it was actually better in most ways.  So, second offer……. rejected!  Well, it was countered, kind of (a budge of TWO inches), but the counter offer was $10,000 more that what we offered.  And it was a FIRM counter.  Bummer, and a half.

    We spent 14 agonizing hours trying to decide how much we really needed for groceries every month, and wondering if Allan and I truly need to eat EVERY day.  (Yes, we’d feed the children every day, but what if Allan and I traded off days?)  Ultimately we decided that yes, we’d like to eat every day, and so no… we better not buy the second house.

    We learned a lot.  We’re encouraged about the future, and the house we’ll someday find to live in.  We’ve got a game plan for paying off the last little bit of debt (oops, that vacation was expensive!), and saving as much as possible, and then looking again after the first of the year.  We’re prayerful that interest rates won’t go up TOO much.  And… we still live in a 2 bedroom apartment.  4 out of 5 isn’t bad! 

    And the cliche is really true… home is where the heart is!  Or, home is where my husband and children are.  We’re happy, we’re all healthy, we have a roof over our head, and an A/C to keep us cool here in Vegas.  And I don’t have to pack any boxes just yet.  Someday!

     

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