Hip Hip

Hooray! We submitted an offer on a home yesterday morning and they accepted within 12 hours! No negotiating even and we think we got a great deal! Of course, B said, "Man, we should have started lower, I guess!" But I know how these people feel and I hope they're happy it sold without a lowball offer! This isn't the house that I've been telling my friends about for the last month or two. That one is great but it was just a little too small for us. And it isn't the house we put an offer on last week that was about to go to foreclosure and was trashed but was in an awesome neighborhood! We decided to withdraw that offer before we knew whether they would accept it or not because we decided a much bigger but older home was the right one. We had looked at it twice and both times felt like it wasn't the one. But then we both had a feeling we should look again when the price dropped some more. And this time we saw the potential and thought about how we could change things to make it work for us and we went for it! It's really close to EVERYTHING which I'm not used to, being way out here where we are but it's about 1 minute to J's soon-to-be school, the mall, McDonald's (very important to M!), Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes, our new credit union, etc. Church will be about 10 minutes and B's work is 15. Not bad at all. Plus A-town has NO traffic issues. Heaven really! There is a great park and lake in walking distance and the yard is much bigger than what we currently have. Of course, the house is 765 more square feet too, so I will have to clean a bigger house but that's really the only downside. :) And it's a year older than me, which will be an adjustment since I've had a nice, new home. But a lot of things have been replaced recently (roof, windows, etc.) to make it energy efficient and we'll have to re-paint pretty much everything but I'm excited. So... hip, hip, hooray, things are falling into place so well! Oh and our realtor said that the sellers initially didn't like that we asked for some money towards closing costs without giving their full asking price, but their realtor said, "Well, they are making an offer on another house, so if you don't want to lose them, I'd accept this. It's a good offer." So... maybe the whole reason we felt we should put an offer on the other house (only to change our minds two days later) was so that this offer would work out! I feel very blessed and VERY nervous about all the changes coming but I'm excited! Please everyone come visit! A-town is on the way to everywhere! :)