We decided to think about it over the weekend, and it ended up getting 2 offers while we were thinking!
I was so sad.
So then we went on to look at tons and tons of depressing run down homes in bad areas, some not so bad, some really bad (the wall blocking the freeway in the backyard!).
Then we found another cute little house in Monroe. It was bigger, didn't need much work. We were all ready to make an offer. Then as we were noticing the grocery outlet store just a little more than a block away, a train passed between us and the grocery outlet!
So we looked at forty houses in Everett without our real estate agent and then made a list of the homes we wanted to see.
And that's what we did last night. We looked at ten houses. There was some really cool places. One looked like it had been lifted right out of Leavenworth. It even had "Give us this day our daily bread" stenciled in German in the dining room. A really cool theme house, but not really any room for our own style. We definitely thought about it. But the house that we really liked, and I even got a personal garden tour, was a little house just the perfect size for us, all on one floor, pink bathroom (oh yeah, toilet, sink, tub!) and wall paper everywhere, and the most amazing garden! They even had artichokes ready to pick! Have you ever seen an artichoke plant? It's pretty cool.
So last night we filled out all the paperwork.
And we wrote the check.
And then we checked the sex offender map.
And then we rescinded our offer. There were 3 level 3's. 8 level 2's. 24 level 1's. I don't think there was anyone in the neighborhood without some sort of record.
Such a roller coaster!
James woke me up this morning. He said the Kelsey St place is available again.
Pray for us!
2 comments:
I know what you mean! We looked at tons of houses before we got ours! It was really cool when we found the house we live in now. When we were looking at a house around the same area we got this feeling that there was a house close by so we found our current house and as soon as we pulled up in front of it we knew it was where we were suppose to be. Hopefully you guys will have that same experience! That sex offender thing is pretty scary! I'm glad you guys checked!
Keep us posted on all of the excitement. Have you done a sex offender sex offender search on the house in Monroe?
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