Friday, May 27, 2011

Our New Home!



Hi Everyone,

We wanted to start this blog to keep you all informed of all the work and excitement involved in the purchase of our first home!  We are so excited and busy on all of our projects at the house that we thought this would be a good way to share our latest and greatest and share some of the funny things that have been happening to us.

Here's an abridged summary of where things stand to date.

We started looking for homes shortly after the new year.  In one weekend, we saw 13 homes.  Each one we visited, we would find things we liked and some things that we really did not like.  This was the 8th home we visited and we loved it from the first time we were there.  What has made us love it even more is that our good friends Erin and Jim live two blocks over!  The home is 4 bedrooms (one very small- will be an office), 2 and a half baths.  It has a living room, family room, dining room, and HUGE mudroom- big selling point.  It also has a deck and is on a nice quiet street which we really like.

Negotiating the home price was a very stressful process.  We purchased the home from the original homeowner, an elderly woman who had lived there for 40 years.  There was definitely emotions running high in this process but we eventually got her down to a price that was right for us!  There were many other bumps along the road along the way in order to finally land the house and many sleepless nights.  I often made Trevor "promise" that we would get the house, and I am very glad we finally did.  It has certainly already been a lot of work and money so far, but it's good to know that our hard earned money is going into something as an important as our first home and an investment.  We also were grateful that we had lots of families and friends to guide us along the way in the homebuying process.

Our subsequent blogs will be on the projects we've been working on along the way and the excitement in what we've been learning!

Below is a picture of us on closing day:

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