What a weekend! I'm still numb from it all. We checked out several properties on Saturday and decided to call it a day without making an offer. We were pretty certain about one with 2+ acres. It has a fantastic house and is ready to get growing. Very cute with lots of charm. It even had a chicken coop that just needs a new roof and some new siding. I thought it was absolutely perfect.
Then we get a call on Superbowl Sunday to drop everything and make an offer if we are the least bit interested. The house had only been listed for 12 days and had already been seen 13 times. They already had an offer in, but the seller wasn't happy. We needed to jump on it if we were to get it and offer high. So we spent 2+ hours in the realtors office and finally got an offer. The seller accepted it right away.
All of a sudden, we are homeowners. We just decided to start looking a week ago and here we are looking for a closing date. Other than some small hoops that I need to jump through to get the mortgage cemented, we are good to go.
It almost doesn't seem real. And it's pretty scary when you look at those pages and pages of numbers they want you to sign. Fees, fees, fees! No wonder the housing market is dying. How can anyone afford to buy a starter home without some serious savings? On top of that, nobody is really building starter homes anymore. Every home I've seen built here in the last 10 years has been some 500k monstrosity built for retirees and childless couples. So now that a generation has been shunned from home buying, the market is suffering.
Evan attempts to fix the housing market
Regardless, a rarity these days, we are getting started like my parents before me, and their parents before them, etc. etc. I hope other people in our generation and younger start back into home ownership and bring our economy back. Start utilizing the property they do purchase so that we stop relying on grocery stores for every little thing.
I know one thing. Its a hell of a ride.
Then we get a call on Superbowl Sunday to drop everything and make an offer if we are the least bit interested. The house had only been listed for 12 days and had already been seen 13 times. They already had an offer in, but the seller wasn't happy. We needed to jump on it if we were to get it and offer high. So we spent 2+ hours in the realtors office and finally got an offer. The seller accepted it right away.
All of a sudden, we are homeowners. We just decided to start looking a week ago and here we are looking for a closing date. Other than some small hoops that I need to jump through to get the mortgage cemented, we are good to go.
It almost doesn't seem real. And it's pretty scary when you look at those pages and pages of numbers they want you to sign. Fees, fees, fees! No wonder the housing market is dying. How can anyone afford to buy a starter home without some serious savings? On top of that, nobody is really building starter homes anymore. Every home I've seen built here in the last 10 years has been some 500k monstrosity built for retirees and childless couples. So now that a generation has been shunned from home buying, the market is suffering.
Evan attempts to fix the housing marketRegardless, a rarity these days, we are getting started like my parents before me, and their parents before them, etc. etc. I hope other people in our generation and younger start back into home ownership and bring our economy back. Start utilizing the property they do purchase so that we stop relying on grocery stores for every little thing.
I know one thing. Its a hell of a ride.
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