The Hunt

So we have been hoping to get out of apartment living for a while now. The market has been absolutely nuts!! so we were content to move into bigger and better apartments for much less mortgages and just wait. Well if you know me at all, you know that I am not a good waiter. I might be patient with people, but I am not patient with progress. So as nice as our little condo is, it is not a house! So with the change in the market and our lease soon to expire, we have been out on the hunt to find something to fit our needs now but still meet our future families needs as well, without braking the bank! Well Step 1- was accomplished by driving around all the of the East Valley for hours and hours and hours checking out over 150 homes to determine whether they neighborhood was good, the location worked for us, and how much work the house really needed! It is amazing how tricky listings online can be! So that was a pretty exhausting step, but worthwhile. From those more than 150 homes came about 35 or so that were deemed worthly of a second look. Meaning they would advance to Step 2- the walk through. This part has always been fun to me, however there was just one problem....our Realtor was broken (if you dont know what I am talking about go back a few posts to my dads knee problems). Well, he is finally able to kind of walk, so we spent 1 Saturday and tried to see about 6 houses on my favorites list.



Well, we were only able to get into 3 due to wrong combos on locks and not happy tenants, etc. But we went to look at my #2 fav house and .....We Loved It!!!

It wasnt perfect....but pretty dang close and the things that werent perfect, were just style and taste issues, the house was great! It is so cute and not too far (Sossaman and Baseline) and just happens to be only 2 streets away from Eldons big sister Misti! We decided it would be really fun to live so close to family and have them in our ward. We would also be in my cousin August and Melissa's ward, so even better. So because we loved it so much and Boys do not enjoy the walk through stage as much as girls (or at least Eldon doesnt enjoy it as much as me), we decided this place might work for us. So we moved on to Step 3- the offer... (scary music enter here) So we spent this whole past week gathering info and past tax docs,etc to get everything put together and will submit our offer tomorrow morning. Then we move on to Step 4 which i like the least.....the waiting part! Again, not so great on the waiting and not knowing part, but it is very exciting. We are really hoping they accept our offer, but we are trying not to get our hopes us. This house would be great, but there were still lots of houses on our list that we didnt even get to, so this process may start all over and thats ok....hopefully somthing is out there for us. We will keep you posted though! In the mean time....remember those fingers and keep them crossed :)