We're going to be homeowners!

We had inspectors in, signed a lot of addendums and revisions, but it is finally going to happen. The sellers fixed what needed to be fixed, and we are closing this week. We should have the keys soon.

We are so excited and have been having house dreams all weeks.

yet another bump in the road

We hit another bump in the road. We had the general home inspector to see the house, and he had some major concerns about the foundation and support.

1. The foundation walls might be bowing in. It's impossible to tell for sure because the waterproofing goes up the whole wall, so you can't see it. But you can feel a bulge and see that the wall isn't straight.

2. Some of the floor joists are cracked, split, and rotted out. In fact, when you step on the floor above, you can feel it move a little.

Because the wedding was 3 days after this inspection, we decided to just put it on hold, while our realtor and the sellers find structural engineers to come out and give their opinion.

Offer made and accepted!

The Sunday before our wedding we had an appointment to see this house in Northfield Village. I wasn't crazy about the neighborhood, but M drove by and said he thought I'd really like it.

The minute we drove up to it, I knew I wanted it! We had talked about possibly making an offer if we liked what we saw inside, because we sure liked the outside, and the description sounded like exactly what we were looking for.

We went inside and were pretty impressed. Big, renovated kitchen. Hard wood floors. Wood trim. New windows. Built in 1925, which is about the age of home I wanted.

And the outside is charming. There's a big wrap around porch that spans three sides of the house. Two-car garage, and a shed. And lots of "mature landscaping" as the listing says. It really looks like a summer cottage.



So we went back to our agent's office and wrote out the offer. The next day we found out they accepted it, and we scheduled a house inspection to be done before our wedding.