Our New House!
Well, I sure haven’t been writing much! But, we’ve sure been busy!
We got married on a Wednesday. We sent in the Immigration Application papers on Thursday. We started work on the brochure on Saturday. On Sunday, we found our new house. Accidentally.
In the fall, I’d done some fancy stuff online to help us organize the houses that we might be interested in, once we actually started looking. Our goal was to move in May, or close to there, so we didn’t really want to look in the fall, but of course, we were thinking about it.
Well, once we were done getting married and all, we thought “might as well get the ball rolling on that months-long-process of picking out a new home”. So, I went to my fancy web stuff to help us look at the latest offerings. Once I got it working (not an immediate thing, I’m afraid) I tested it out by clicking on 1261 S. Winfield. “Great, it’s working!” I thought. “Woah… this house has every single thing we said we wanted in a house,” I thought next, feeling kind of nervous. “Pri,” I said “come take a look at this…”
“Great, you got it working!”
“Yeah, look at this house….”
“… … We have to call our Realtor NOW!!”
So, Monday, we went looking at houses, starting with this one. We liked it. Actually, Pri didn’t really look at any other houses very carefully after this one. She would walk in to a house, quickly determine that it wasn’t as good as the first one, and she’d be ready to leave. Our Realtor and I both gave more of a “fair chance” to the other houses we looked at, but I can’t deny, that first one was unquestionably the best one.
So, Wednesday we met with a mortgage person (and, I might mention, picked up the 250 printed brochures that Pri somehow created in that week also) and Thursday we put in our offer. It was accepted. Nine days after we got married, we had right of refusal on our house.
Great huh? Well, I have to admit, that it kinda freaked me out. I often describe myself as a “slow moving, long term kind of guy” and this, needless to say, was NOT slow moving. I tried to comfort myself by reminding myself that we weren’t going to be moving until May (this was another perfect thing about the house, the owners wanted to stay there for the remainder of the school year), so we’d have several months of NOT worrying about where we were going to live and such, with nothing to do but pack. Even I should be able to pack my house in three months, right?
So, now we’ve closed, and I’ve started packing, and I’m breathing enough to think about nice things like writing in this blog, and maybe even writing in my own blog. But, that’s another story. Let’s talk about the house. No, let’s look at our PICTURES of the house! Or, we can see the Bloomington Board of Realtor’s web page about this house.