Day 1 of the Hunt

Well, we survived our first day of the house hunt! Our realtor called it a "success", but I was disappointed and discouraged. The houses in our price range and in the area that we'd like to be at are just not what we were hoping for.

These were our top two houses that we looked at...

1) Loretto House #1 This house is really above our budget but we wanted to take a look at it because it is pretty close to where we work. The top two floors of the house were awesome. I loved the layout, except everything was PURPLE!!! Ohmigoodness...I like purple, in fact, it's my favorite color...but not everywhere! It was very modern-ly decorated, but I can look past that. However, the basement was less to be desired - tile floors, weird set up. It felt like school floors and hubby couldn't see it as his "entertainment" room. It really was overpriced and wasn't a $300k house. This was my fave house that we saw though.

2) Loretto House #2 This was hubby's favorite house, but I didn't like the layout. It's a bi-level split and it's not my favorite style of house... Much rather prefer a two story or multi-level or even a rambler. Although when I was younger, I always liked the split level because we had a boring one floor rambler. Anyway, this house had an AMAZING garage...it would be 4 cars if a couple of the walls were taken out...or the back could be made into a really great 3 or 4 season porch. But, the living room had a strange wall divider thing and the master bedroom was right off the LR with a door??! Weird, weird, weird.

We're going to try a different area the next time we go out...I hope we have better luck!

Our house is supposedly going on the market on Monday. We're also planning our first open house next Sunday. I'm excited to see if there will be any initial response!

House Hunters

Hubby and I are going house hunting today!!! We're so excited - this is the first time we're going out with our realtor. We have 8 houses that we are going to look at today. If there's anything promising, I'll post a link here. We're looking just west of where we live now...for the Cities folks reading this, the houses we'll be touring are in Loretto, Greenfield and Rockford. Those are kind of obscure cities...I am hoping for a small-town feel, although I don't know how my husband really feels about that. High-speed internet is a must so it can't be too far in the boonies!! :) We're going to go a different day to the St Michael/Rogers area.

I wasn't sure how many houses to tour...I think our realtor might have said 4 or 5 is good to go to in one day because otherwise they start looking the same and we will start getting confused. Oops. We'll see what happens. We took the day off from work so I guess I just wanted to be as productive as possible. I'm excited to have a day off with my honey!! I think this is the first day that we have took off "for fun" in quite some time (since our honeymoon??) that we're not going somewhere or travelling far, etc.

Well, it's 5:54 am and there's so much to be done. Our realtor is going to be taking pictures of the house today for our MLS listing, so the place needs to look good....and I seriously don't know how I'm going to do it by the time he gets here. So, naturally speaking, I though it would be a great time to post a blog. ;) Oh well. Our house guest is (ahem) finally leaving today, so we'll be able to get back to normal around here. It's been a challenge, and I know God wanted us to be hospitable, but am I going to be glad when it is just us again! Oh, I wish I could post our experience here, but I'm nervous about people seeing this who we would rather not. I guess that's the fun of a public blog, eh? It's not that I've had to cook meals (I made two the entire two weeks) or really "entertain" much, but we miss being able to walk around in our underwear and fart whenever we want. KIDDING! Or...am I?